Example sentences for: whereupon

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

  • 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.

  • The assaults on plausibility began in the first frames of Con Air , as Nicolas Cage's character returned home from Operation Desert Storm in a tugboat, and did not subside until Sam Neill mutated into some kind of space devil at the end of Event Horizon , whereupon his face inexplicably broke out in a crosshatched design that made him look like a slab of grilled ahi tuna.

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

  • 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.

  • 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."


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