Example sentences for: provenance

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

  • That is why virtually every American dictionary of any shape, size, provenance, comprehensiveness, quality, and lexicographic persuasion is likely to be called a Webster these days.

  • and vb ., in all senses is not American in use or provenance, nor are honked, hoolie (also Irish?)

  • Could they detect any of the subtleties of brewing style and provenance that microbrew customers pay such attention to when choosing some Doppelbock over a cream ale?

  • The connotation is of Cold War provenance and was given broad currency in large part through the novels of John Le Carré, whose longtime protagonist, the spy master George Smiley, has pursued moles within British intelligence.

  • Its principal treasure, though of contested provenance, is Leonardo da Vinci’s luminous Portrait of a Musician (1485), unfinished but at the same time the best preserved of the master’s few surviving works.


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