Example sentences for: whereupon

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

  • In the 1931 Dracula , however, which like Nosferatu is based on Bram Stoker's novel, Bela Lugosi has to be impaled through the heart in his coffin, whereupon he emits a strange little disappointed groan that remains a benchmark of decorum when compared with the hissing and writhing deaths of modern screen vampires.

  • 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.

  • The water-filled bucket has now rested, silent and waiting, until the cannonball strikes the paddle wheel, whereupon the wheel spins, the red rope winds up, pulling the water-filled bucket up the well, up against the axle, which tilts the bucket over  you will have to imagine this part  and pours the water into a long funnel that slopes down from the wellhead toward my bean field.

  • Only then is the (now heavily revised) article formally submitted, whereupon the editor handpicks an expert referee to examine it line by line--a process that can easily take another year or more.

  • The player who has devised a `double' provides to the others a definition, whereupon they try to respond with the precise double.


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