whence
/wɛns/
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American sound/wɛns/
whence
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US voice -> whence
Myanmar meaning
ဘယ်နေရာကလဲ။ return whence you came မင်းလာခဲ့တဲ့နေရာကို ပြန်ပါ။ ဘယ်ဟာက။ ပြီးတော့။ နောက်တော့။ whence it follows that ပြီးတော့ အဲဒါဘယ်လိုဖြစ်တာလဲ။
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- ‘He can dismiss the question of whence the Holiness Code derives its use of purity language in relation to sins that are not, in and of themselves, violations of literal, physical purity.’
- ‘Control is understood as one's being the source whence her actions emanate.’
- ‘First and foremost, one must ask whence this ‘right’ derives.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘Concerned to limit the smothering, Fritz sent the boy off to the barracks, whence he emerged a martinet much given to fancy uniforms, which he would change as often as 10 times a day.’
- ‘If they misbehave, they're sent back from whence they came.’
- ‘Why had he been sent to Somerset, whence he had escaped and taken refuge in the station?’
- ‘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.’
- ‘But then consider well, Hugh, dost thou not know from whence thou comest - upon Whose message thou are sent?’
- ‘The Ghost of Christmas Passed came calling today, sending pinecones packing and stockings slinking into the Rubbermaid bins from whence they came.’
- ‘Four straight defeats, coupled with Queen of the South's defeat against Forfar in midweek, sent them back to whence they came.’
- ‘Normally you can stop them in time and whatever has come up can be sent back down from whence it came but this time I just couldn't do it and out went this little puddle of puke straight into Stinking Pete's pint.’
- ‘His father Eric came from Breslau, but as a young man escaped to Paris, whence he was sent to London in 1900 by a theatrical agency to run its London branch.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘If he realized that she knew that he was an escaped convict, then he might assume that she would be only too eager to send him back from whence he came.’
- ‘I've just parcelled my first bit of ripped up junkmail back in its prepaid envelope and sent it back from whence it came.’
- ‘We live in a strange time and place where a minister of the government believes that he is doing his job by rounding up the poorest of the poor and sending them back to the hellhole from whence they sprang.’
- ‘In 1848, however, the abdicating French King claimed the collection as his personal property, and the young Second Republic obliged, sending it after him to England, whence it was dispersed.’
- ‘It is evident by now how the values of a therapeutic culture surrounding us have affected our own views, and, therefore, whence the dread and fear of our own aging and general discomfort level with its attendant issues arises.’
- ‘In the indeterminate fluxations of a cosmos in which ‘things happen’ and it is futile to ask about whence or wherefore, he accepted responsibility for nothing except the poem he aspired to be.’
Synonyms
according to what, after what precedent, and so, by means of, by virtue of what, by what means, by what method, by whose help, for this reason, forasmuch as, from that time, from then on, from there on, from what place, from what source, from where, from which, from which place, how, in consequence, in that event, on account of, on the grounds, spring, then, thence, thenceforth, therefore, therefrom, through what agency, through what medium, to end, to that end, to what degree, wherefrom, wherewith
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