Example sentences for: whither

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

  • Though such words as betimes and whither and such forms as doth and hath have dropped out of ordinary usage, today's English-speaking reader of average education can read most of the Diary without encountering any word that would send him to his dictionary.

  • At bottom, his conjecture is that the entire song relates to a pilgrimage to Jerusalem from England, where (two) turtle doves is interpreted as `de tour Douvres,' whither one must go to cross to France, to `lors de Liban,' yielding (eleven) lords a-leaping . Each step of the way the reader is increasingly persuaded that Bernard has taken the right road, but I shall leave the remaining details of the expedition to buyers of the book.

  • See page 161,” whither we skedaddled to find this execrable piece of misinformation: “The word `knothead' was first used by Max Shulman in his Collection of Campus Stories: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

  • See pages 117-118,” whither my fingers scurried.

  • Similar obituaries and "whither China?"


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