Example sentences for: thence

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

  • Originally Celtic for wagon , it was borrowed into Latin and thence Norman French as carre , yielding not only the verb carry and its abstract carriage , but also cargo, charge, chariot.

  • In algebra, efforts to find the roots of equations led to the discovery of the symmetries of roots of equations and thence to the invention of group theory, which finds routine application in the study of crystallographic groups by structural biologists today.

  • According to the textbooks, value-added is "the amount of value added to a product by each stage of its production"--in other words, the amount of value added as wood metamorphoses from tree to lumber to house, or as oil is refined from its captured state into petrochemicals, and thence, perhaps, into plastic.

  • In the only congressional race of this election, the contest for Susan Molinari's seat on Staten Island was fought in part over the cost of driving across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which connects Staten Island to Brooklyn and thence to the rest of the world.

  • Another is economic: Prohibiting adultery preserves monogamous relationships and thence families, whose labor was needed for agriculture.


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