Example sentences for: origins

How can you use “origins” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Layering : The money is separated from its criminal origins through complex financial transactions.

  • This hip urban vampire tale is either admirably true to its Marvel Comics origins or boring and brooding, depending on who reviews it.

  • Why is it, as etymologist Walter Skeat asked frequently in the last century, that people will not hesitate to proffer publicly their guess-work on word origins and other language matters, when they would not similarly dare to explain the ordinary facts of botany and chemistry?

  • The syllothetic system had its origins, no doubt, in the rule followed by the authors of university monographs and government position papers.

  • Linguistically, Black English has origins in Caribbean (mainly Jamaican) Creole.


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