Example sentences for: whence

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

  • The cab of taxicab is from cabriolet , a light passenger cart; and hack is hackney coach , a coach for hire, hackney or hack being a hired horse and by extension anything shoddy and overused, whence hack-word and hackneyed phrases.

  • In Victorian America, car was quickly applied to railway carriages, whence boxcars and passenger-cars , and also to tramways, first to horsecars and then to electric-cars , otherwise known as trolley cars , or streetcars , or simply cars (whence carfare ).

  • It seems silly to separate Gruyère the cheese from Gruyère the place in Switzerland whence it comes— indeed, the latter is not even an entry in the geographical sections of either dictionary.

  • Copper is from ME coper , OE coper/copor , Proto-Germanic * kupar , and is called cuprum in Late Latin; both Proto-Germanic and Late Latin forms are from Latin Cyprium , the adjective for Cyprus , whence the best copper came in antiquity, which goes back to the Greeks, who called it kupros .

  • But ah, Siena, you are luckiest in the root and stem whence


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