whence

Example Sentences

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You may be wondering just whence that staggering valuation arises, then.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2024

You may have looked at this strange, jolly person and wondered whence he came and what kind of career could have sustained him to this point.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2024

Colorado is believed to be particularly vulnerable to a defection back to the conference from whence it came to the Pac-12 in 2011.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2023

Venice “sinks, like a seaweed, into whence she rose,” the Romantic poet Lord Byron wrote.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2023

Continuing then to pursue his walk in silence, I ventured to recall him to the point whence he had abruptly diverged—

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë