wherefrom
Americanconjunction
adverb
pronoun
Etymology
Origin of wherefrom
Example Sentences
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Including schools of education, wherefrom these ideas have begun to influence public schools.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2022
The incense of reeking garbage, wherefrom the alchemy of sunlight is disengaging impalpable poison, arises up forever.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2013
Bridges' "Nightingales" can stand with any of them: Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come, And bright in the fruitful valleys the streams, wherefrom Ye learn your song: Where are those starry woods?
From Time Magazine Archive
There are certain ordinances and covenants settled upon the staple of wool, wherefrom the king is assisted beyond his own rents and revenues; and when they go to war, that covenant is doubled.
From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.
Then came forth other angels also—two bearing burning candles, and the third a towel, and the fourth a spear which bled marvelously, the drops wherefrom fell into a box he held in his left hand.
From King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Unknown
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