Sentence examples for which would have worked from inspiring English sources

But he had the lugubriousness and the attitude which would have worked".

For the verb meaning to torment, The Times's stylebook calls for "rack," which would have worked here.

Mr. Guerinot also never contacted the British Consulate, which would have worked hard to help prevent one its citizens from being executed.

West contented himself with two hearts, which would have worked out well if East had shown his spades at this point.

Then again, when I chanced upon a travel bulletin from the Derbyshire version of Capital it said there were "problems in all the usual areas" which would have worked equally well for anywhere.

"It's a new hole day!" proclaimed Ginger Minj, after last week's Sturm and all the Drang of Jasmine Master's elimination … which would've worked, except it became pick-your-own-team week, and Max, Violet Chachki and Jaidynn Diore Fierce ended up on a team together because everyone else had better ideas.

The category was "What Are You Doing?" After guessing an N and really having no hope, one of the contestants shouted out, "Riding a brown horse," which would've worked perfectly for the amount of letters but was just too ridiculous to be an answer.

At the other end of the spectrum, Lana Del Rey's debut Born to Die suffered only due to the overshadowing presence of "Video Games", making it an example of that strange and rare phenomenon: an album which, weirdly, would have worked better without its best song.

Original rumors pegged this thing as the "myTouch HD", which really would have worked pretty well.

Which ingredient would have worked?

Sadly, it still didn't elicit answers to a lot of the election's biggest questions, which is what would have worked best for voters.