WHERE in a Sentence

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For WHERE, below is one of 373 sentences:
The French I learned at school is very different from the local vernacular of the village where I'm now living.

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 Meanings and Examples of WHERE
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where
 ad.  in or to what place or position
Classic Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
1  "You showed me where the key was yesterday," she said.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  There's a place in th park woods here where there's snowdrops by thousands.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI. Pig and Pepper
4  While she was looking at the place where it had been, it suddenly appeared again.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI. Pig and Pepper
5  She led him round the laurel path and to the walk where the ivy grew so thickly.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  This was when she began to ask where the flowers were to be planted.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  It's a big place and you may go where you like and amuse yourself as you like.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  And he knows where foxes and badgers and otters live.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  It's no worse than hidin where a bird's nest is.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  "That is the garden where Ben Weatherstaff works," said Mary.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
11  "This is where the robin flew over the wall," she said.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
12  There are galleries where you could run.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
13  There is a little Indian room where there is a cabinet full of ivory elephants.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
14  But in spite of her, Tom knew where the wind lay, now.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
15  Tom chased the traitor home, and thus found out where he lived.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (171 in 12 pages)
16  The French I learned at school is very different from the local vernacular of the village where I'm now living.
17  Pipe smokers sometimes wear down the tips of their teeth where they grip their pipes.
18  He placed a marker where the ball had landed.
19  Every soil where he is well, is to a valiand man his natural country.
20  This is the only forum where East and West can get together.
21  Spend not where you may save; spare not where you must spend.
22  Labour is light where love doth pay.
23  Kindness will creep where it may not go.
24  It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil.
25  The soul is not where it lives, but it loves.
26  Give credit where credit is due.
27  The moon is not seen where the sun shines.
28  Pain is forgotten where gain follows.
29  None but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
30  Birth is nothing where virtue is not.