Example sentences for: provenance

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

  • It is also through this and earlier editions of the DOSAE that one learned, to one's surprise, of the South African provenance of words like off-load unload, bottle store liquor store, butchery butcher's shop, and bond mortagage bond.

  • Jeans, an Australian as his spellings confirm, has ferreted about in the language to uncover words and phrases that have—and might have—some nautical provenance.

  • One could not compile such a book without giving the meanings, but the interesting and useful material here for the native speaker is what Christine Ammer has to say about their past and provenance.

  • Of these, hump is now the most commonly used, in the general sense of a hut or temporary dwelling, whether of Aboriginal or European provenance.

  • As this long homologous N-terminal extension of SGC subunits does not map to any previously characterized domains, we sought to investigate its provenance through sequence analysis methods.


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