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How to use whence in a sentence

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He was taken from his mother and sent to a Church of England boys' home whence he was adopted by a white family who loved him dearly.
Virtually all Guillemots in Britain nest either on sea-girt cliffs or on small islands whence the chicks can readily reach the water.
It was amazing how the birds knew the exact spot from whence the soft purr had come.
Deep, painful decisions for President Wilson in World War I to send Americans back from whence they had the chaos, from whence they had escaped.
It had the usual country-schoolhouse form, with a moss-grown roof and blank window spaces, whence both glass and sash had long departed.
He was an activist who has since slipped back into the mouse-hole from whence he came.
Properly she should now retreat to the blessed silence of the cloister whence she strayed into the pulpit.
They were also kept in warrens, enclosed areas of land in which they could feed and burrow, and from whence they were conveniently caught.
You have to consider from whence come your brood stock, the animals you're actually working with.
He went in with a feint in the low lines, whence he whirled his point into carte as he lunged, and planted the trident over the master's heart.
They withdrew to the mountainous south, whence Russian forces have to this day been unable to dislodge them.
Each cord maintains its connection with the abdominal cavity via the canal, whence the vas joins the urinary tract below the bladder.
Why had he been sent to Somerset, whence he had escaped and taken refuge in the station?
To turn her away into the loneliness from whence she came would be a crime against our fellow man!
It is worth examining these benefactions carefully in order to determine from whence individual things came.
His appointment as Waterford County Manager brought the wheel full cycle, a return for Donal from whence he began.
In Ayr and environs, from whence the Bard hailed, the poor burghers eat nothing but haggis and neeps marinated in whisky for months on end.
The local swimming pool, from whence I am just returned, is repainting and retiling.
Control is understood as one's being the source whence her actions emanate.
I'd leave him in that box and let him ride around in the UPS truck til they send him back from whence he came.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He takes them from the same printed Horae of 1510 whence the memoria comes.
The men carried Jabine to the nearest mining camp, whence others went to bring in the body of broadus.
When and where the Babel existed, whence the many branches of the great Tupi family separated, we know not.
We know whence they come, for they are often impecunious gentlemen, but where do they go?
They had found him asleep under the chuck wagon, whence he was hauled out, feet first, by one of the returning guards.
The morning of the following day the enemy arrived at Chur, whence he proceeded to Berne.
Its elevation near Manzanillo is about 200 feet, whence it increases to 640 feet at El Cristo.
Having arrived in a cab, whence she could not see anything, the Tricon had quietly mounted the coach box.
A commonplace book contains many notions in garrison, whence the owner may draw out an army into the field on competent warning.
By continency verily are we bound up and brought back into One, whence we were dissipated into many.
The former is from tici and cun or con, whence by reduplication cun-un-un-an, it thunders.
The residua of distillation remain almost entirely in the reservoir, O, from whence they are easily removed.
We left him at Bangalore, from whence he marched with his regiment to Secunderabad.
He established himself at first in his native town of Dortmund, from whence in 1802 he emigrated to Holland.
In these days this carriage was always built with a perch, the undercarriage resembling that of a coach, whence its name.
In fortification, a projecting turret on the top of the escarp, whence a sentry may observe the outside of the rampart.
You will also, Leroux, mount a culverin on the platform of the mirador, whence we shall command the course of the Gila.
Odysseus was at Negropont, from whence seven hundred Albanians had lately absconded.
It is herbaceous and perfectly hardy, though it comes from the much warmer climate of Japan, whence are all the species of funkia.
Lost in dreams, the child gazed into the lake whence blew cool airs, while the nixes floated in mist across it.
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