Example sentences for: whereupon

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

  • This divides the town into two camps, color and black-and-white, whereupon the film goes downhill.

  • People with low status and high wealth can prove attractive to people with high status and low wealth, whereupon the entire social structure disintegrates.

  • Evidently, a neighbor learned of the woman's condition, whispered the word sex to her as she was passing through the lobby of the apartment house where they live, whereupon she dropped, unconscious, to the floor, and he sexually molested her--presumably after moving her to a more private venue.

  • In order to "turn" this person, it is necessary for the vampire to drain the victim's tank and top it off at the crucial moment with a quart or so of his own blood, whereupon the thirsty recipient becomes a "new-born vampire weeping at the beauty of the night."

  • It pulls a couple of amusing tricks with its narrative (the second act doesn't come until after the fourth, whereupon everything starts to--sort of--make sense), but this kind of flimsy romantic confection is either utterly charming or it collapses into a heavy slab of obviousness.


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