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Example sentences for "wherein"

Lexicographically close words:
whereever; wherefor; wherefore; wherefores; wherefrom; whereinsoever; whereinto; whereof; whereon; whereout
  1. It is not a purchase wherein the buyer can usually of himself judge of the merits of his bargain, he must rely upon the reputation established by previous works of the same kind.

  2. His authority for the date is the life of William Abbot of Hirshan, wherein there is mention made of a machine used by the monks for measuring time, which cannot in Beckmann's opinion have been a clepsydra.

  3. Now, when the spirit of the little bride came to the gates of the castle wherein dwelt Black Roderick, she saw the great changes that had come to pass therein, for the day that had fallen to her in paradise was as seven years on earth.

  4. And again he said: "How canst thou leave the beauty and love of paradise, wherein thou mayst enter no more save thou art strong enough to conquer great dangers?

  5. When he reached the castle wherein his bride did dwell, he blew three blasts upon the horn that hung beside the gate, and in answer to his call a voice cried out to him.

  6. But the wind that blew from the hill-side carried the keening of the little bride past the village, and blew it about the windows of the castle wherein Black Roderick dwelt.

  7. Then he erected two small sheds close by, wherein to shelter his goods from the weather.

  8. We shall have a whole day wherein to pursue it.

  9. The little city wherein was the post-office lay a little over two miles away, and Edna often walked in and out for the mere pleasure of it.

  10. Could it be the broad fireplace, wherein blazed and snapped a veritable back-log?

  11. Well, I owe you homage for that you opened the door of the prison wherein my grandson lay, accused of a crime which another had committed.

  12. All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.

  13. The poor lepers gazed back long and lovingly at the valleys wherein they had dwelt all their lives and which they never more would see.

  14. Michael Sunlocks himself took the blow with composure, saying it was plainly his destiny and of a piece with the rest of his fate, wherein no good thing had ever come to him without an evil one coming on the back of it.

  15. And through all the days of her worse than widowhood, amid dark memories of the past and thoughts of the future wherein many passions struggled together, the hope lay low down in Rachel's mind that Stephen would return to her.

  16. This was the workshop and study, wherein the good priest spent his long, dark days of winter.

  17. She was ready, for she had not been to bed, and about her shoulders and across her breast was a sling of sheepskin, wherein she meant to carry her little Michael as he slept.

  18. Now it would be a long task to follow closely all that befell the dear old Adam Fairbrother, from the time when the ship wherein he sailed for Iceland weighed anchor in Ramsey bay.

  19. When they entered there was deep silence for a moment, wherein her eyes glanced over them, as they stood in their strong odors of health around her.

  20. The wet clothes wherein he had passed through the sea had been torn off, his body wrapped in a gray blanket, and the wound on his head bandaged with a cloth.

  21. So thinking in the wild turmoil of his hot old head, wherein everything he had thought before was turned topsy-turvy, Jorgen Jorgensen decided to countermand his order for the execution of Sunlocks.

  22. There are many things to be considered in these words, wherein the brightness of Christian charity shines forth in this man, who "loved the beauty of the Lord's house, and the place of the tabernacle of His habitation.

  23. For there are two ways, the one narrow, in which we walk; the other is for the impious, wherein they shall perish.

  24. But to whom shall I address myself, or how shall I address myself to them, seeing that in them I find no time wherein to speak?

  25. I grant there is a difference, nor is it worth while now to show wherein that difference consists.

  26. This cause he has found wherein the victory is possible for him, but only with you for judges.

  27. Here you see that Christ sanctifies; here you see that Christ also Himself washes, Himself purifies with the self-same washing of water by the word, wherein the ministers are seen to do their work in the body.

  28. Wherein Peter Veriquear makes love to Miss Sowersoft, and becomes involved in trouble.

  29. He declared it lied for having told such tales of him; and often gave utterance to certain unintelligible jargon, wherein the names of Woodruff, of his sister Frances, and of his niece, were mingled in curious confusion.

  30. Wilt thou be glass wherein it shall discern Authority for sin, warrant for blame, To privilege dishonour in thy name?

  31. Of this reproach he cleared himself, by the composition of Concertos, which he played on various occasions, and wherein he discovered grander proportions, both as to conception and execution.

  32. Naturally he turned again to the thought of gambling, this time the great legalised game of hazard, wherein he was as little likely to prosper as among the blacklegs of Brussels.

  33. When I sat up, I saw a woman in the door of the house, yet a half mile away, no doubt, wondering how a maniac happened to be on her daughter's steed.

  34. The jackass seemed to relish the sport immensely.

  35. Having received an invitation to the races, I did not tarry longer than necessary.

  36. We rarely appreciate anything that costs us nothing," I began my conclusion.

  37. If de whole blamed country's after yuse, do yuse tink I was goin' to let yuse be catched if I could help it?

  38. But before leaving, I purchased a small hand-sled, and improvised rope-traces by which Mac could draw my luggage instead of carrying it.

  39. I don't wish to suck them; I want them to sell," I replied.

  40. We had searched the dormitories and cellars of the college buildings and were going to the gymnasium, when I discovered Mac standing in the snow, eating thistles.

  41. And having said this, I walked majestically to the "lift.

  42. I never knew him to refuse any kind of a beverage, though this cider is pretty hard.

  43. At Carroll, Pod purchased some canvas for a sleeping-bag.

  44. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

  45. So it was for twenty years, wherein there had been going and coming in quiet.

  46. Rosalie's constant cry in these weeks wherein she lay ill and prostrate after her father's burial.

  47. Lister groped in the corn wherein Durgo had flung the planks, and soon recovered these.

  48. I wished to adore the shrine wherein was my jewel; that is, I desired to gaze on the house, beneath whose roof you slept.

  49. The room wherein she sat, with the blinds down, was opposite the study and was a large apartment sparsely furnished.

  50. Lister walked into the study, wherein the inspector had established himself, and explained that he had been escorting Miss Huxham home.

  51. They passed the cottage wherein Silas Pence lodged, and this recalled the episode of the so-called fit to Cyril, as he had heard all particulars from his garrulous landlady.

  52. Down, among the roots of the Eternal hills, he finds a sunless temple wherein he prays.

  53. He wants to fight it purely as a point of the liberty of letters and public speech; and to show that the phrase "slavery" (wherein I am brought in question) is current in the educated controversy about the tendency of Capitalism today.

  54. Shall I say of him, to whom I owe so much, let the day perish wherein he was born?

  55. Will, indignantly, glaring back at the cherry trees wherein Gandy had vanished.

  56. He was led to the very edge of the steep, slippery incline of the channel, wherein the tide had dropped about fifteen feet.

  57. He shew'd wherein that Care consisted, and there he took occasion to treat of the Virtues necessarily requisite for a good King, and how God had given them one who in every respect deserv'd the sincere Affections of his People.

  58. Shall not the subtle spirit of man contrive To charm the tremulous ether of the soul, Wherein it breathes?

  59. Two hours ago you might have had The chamber wherein stands the loom; But then to drive me wholly mad, Came this great merchant from Baghdad, And thrust himself into the room.

  60. The allegorical commentary is clearly the work of Philo's maturity, wherein he exhibits full mastery of an original method of exegesis.

  61. The skeleton of his thought was clothed with a body wherein his spirit could never have dwelt.

  62. But in another sense he gave this name to the soul of the wise, wherein God is said to walk as in a city.

  63. Here must have been the general introduction to the allegories, wherein Philo declared his purpose and his method of exposition.

  64. Preparatory to the spread of Christianity, numerous sects sprang up there which purported to follow a spiritual Judaism wherein the law was abrogated because, forsooth, its symbolism was understood!

  65. It has been claimed on behalf of the bankers’ craft that they date back to Abraham, because it is recorded that he weighed out four hundred shekels of silver as the purchase-money for the cave and field of Macpelah wherein to bury Sarah.

  66. I do not at all concur in his general view of the Politikus, wherein he represents the dialogue as intended to deride the Megaric philosophers.

  67. Hence we learn wherein consists the difference between the two.

  68. The question is, Wherein consists the Good--The Supreme Good--Summum Bonum.

  69. But he adopts the reasoning of the same in the subsequent conversation with Kratylus; wherein the relative point of view is introduced for the first time (pp.

  70. Antalkidas), he was probably known only by Sokratic dialogues, properly so called: which Dionysius specifies both as his earliest works and as his proper department, wherein he stood unrivalled.

  71. The essence of the name was, to be significant of the essence of the thing named: though such significance admitted of diversity, multiplication, or curtailment, in the letters or syllables wherein it was embodied.


  72. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wherein" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    wherein the; wherein they; wherein thou