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Example sentences for "into which"

  • He always keeps a place for himself and his child, into which no other being can enter.

  • She had always seemed above him -- now she seemed miles away as well; a region of Paradise, into which he was forbidden to enter.

  • I suppose, when he could not prevail with me to tell him the young captain's name, he must have laid a trap for him: into which, alas!

  • With these words he opened the door of a small closet, into which he shut the Colonel.

  • We had no fears; and would far rather have been without the awkward, blushing young man, into which Mr. Gray had sunk.

  • It is a left-bank tributary of the Rhine, into which it falls at Sinzig, rising in the Eifel mountains, and having a total length of 55 m.

  • When he was twelve years old he was instructed in starcraft by Nectanebus, who was killed by a fall into a pit, into which he had been playfully pushed by Alexander.

  • After proceeding up the nave, he was to kneel and pray at the topmost step of the entrance of the choir, into which he was to be introduced by the bishop or his commissary, and placed in his stall.

  • Each house has a quadrangle in the centre, into which it looks, and which is entered by a low, narrow doorway.

  • It takes its name from the river Acis, into which, according to the legend, Acis, the lover of Galatea, was changed after he had been slain by Polyphemus.

  • The Indians kneel between two rows of soldiers, an officer with drawn sword compels each in turn to open his mouth, into which a second officer throws a handful of salt, amid general laughter at the wry faces of the Indians.

  • There a punt was moored, into which we placed our saddles, etc.

  • One afternoon a heavy rain came on, and we stopped to construct a shelter of green branches, into which we crept.

  • His knowledge, talent, and intelligence procured him many friends, and his reputation reached England, into which country he passed, hoping to gain there more fortune than in Holland.

  • He has often been heard to speak of those times with bitterness, and even to relate that, one evening he was found in the basin of the Palais Royal garden fountain, into which he had fallen!

  • Duc d'Orleans was no sooner at table than he burst out laughing, and applauded his cleverness, saying that he had just laid a trap for me into which I had fallen full length.

  • He immediately begins to put out his moral feelers into the unknown and the infinite to discover what sort of an existence this is into which he has come.

  • He admired, for different reasons, a lecture by Greeley that he once heard, into which so much knowledge of various kinds was crowded that he said he "made a reg'lar gobble of it.

  • There were some political treatises, into which I hardly looked.

  • Another corner of the court displayed a fountain, where a huge bear, carved in stone, predominated over a large stone-basin, into which he disgorged the water.

  • La Peyrade has been devoted to the Thuillier family, into which he was introduced by Monsieur Dutocq, clerk of the justice-of-peace of their arrondissement.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "into which" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    alluvial soil; colonial life; dear woman; each half; eyes rested; feet above the lake; four bells; generally preferred; into her; into his; into the; into their; into this; into which; long periods; more powerful; not necessarily; overseas territory; pressed upon; prevent them; prevent warping; reach them; rest here; ripe fruit; son oeuvre; still preserved