WHEREAS in a Sentence

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At present the same form of paean is employed at the beginning and at the end, whereas the end should differ from the beginning.

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 Meanings and Examples of WHEREAS
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whereas
 ad.  considering that; it being the case that; since
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  The Confederates could expect no more reinforcements, whereas the railroad, which the Yankees now held from Tennessee south to the battle line, brought Sherman fresh troops and supplies daily.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  At least, he had friends who took him in, whereas I was Ishmael.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
3  Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
4  But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
5  In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
6  But in brief, they are these: lungs and warm blood; whereas, all other fish are lungless and cold blooded.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
7  For amber, though at times found on the sea-coast, is also dug up in some far inland soils, whereas ambergris is never found except upon the sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 92. Ambergris.
8  Now, the greatest depth of the invested body of this particular whale must have been at least sixteen feet; whereas, the corresponding rib measured but little more than eight feet.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
9  Ivan Petrovitch is tall, whereas this man is small and spare.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
10  The only difference is that circumstances, as they stand, permit of your polishing off a stuffed shoulder of mutton at a meal; whereas in St. Petersburg you would have been unable to do so.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
11  Yet so gluttonous and idle are my serfs that they are simply bursting with food, whereas I scarcely get enough to eat.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
12  Boys of small capacity he did not long retain in his establishment; whereas those who possessed exceptional talent he put through an extra course of schooling.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
13  Such a course is at once more regular and more smooth of working, since a corps of subordinates has but one director, whereas a director may have a hundred subordinates.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
14  All the artful maneuvers suggested by our generals meant fresh movements of the army and a lengthening of its marches, whereas the only reasonable aim was to shorten those marches.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER IV
15  For whereas the Romans were always victorious under the consuls, under the decemvirs they were always defeated.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLIII.
Example Sentence:
1  You will have it if it belongs to you,whereas you don't kveth for it if it doesn't appear in your life.
2  Wise men love truth, whereas fools shun it.
3  Wise men love truth, whereas fools shut it.
4  Death is so final, whereas life is so full of possibilities.
5  The old system was fairly complicated whereas the new system is really very simple.
6  There is yet some good in public envy, whereas in private, there is none.
7  Only this insects produce one brood a year, whereas others produce seven or eight ones a year in our research.
8  At present the same form of paean is employed at the beginning and at the end, whereas the end should differ from the beginning.
9  Our ancestors started adding the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide principally by cutting down trees for farming; whereas methane production started with wet farming of rice.
10  Christmas is causing heavier debate in rural of China whereas some in urban refuse it.