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Example sentences for "where was"

  • After go men by the hill beside the plains of Galilee unto Nazareth, where was wont to be a great city and a fair; but now there is not but a little village, and houses abroad here and there.

  • Also on that other side, 200 paces from Jerusalem, is a church, where was wont to be the cave of the lion.

  • And it is a full fair hill and well high, where was wont to be a town and many churches; but they be all destroyed.

  • We visited the cathedral, St. Jean, where was one of the fairest clocks for art and busy invention I had ever seen.

  • We went out on a terrace, where was a pretty garden on the leads, for it is built in a place that has no extent of ground backward.

  • Near the Town-house stands the College of Jesuits, where was heretofore an Amphitheater.

  • We were led into a round cabinet, where was a neat invention for reflecting lights, by lining divers sconces with thin shining plates of gilded copper.

  • Then, still holding her, he drew her within the low feathering branches of a giant tree, where was a fallen log.

  • She reached a rising ground in the park, where was a seat under a fine oak, commanding a view.

  • Where was he, that she might praise him for his speech?

  • But he was in great perplexity: where was he to get anything for her?

  • But Barbara was carrying her pigeon where was no help for the heart of either.

  • Her husband--where was he; what was he to her?

  • I shouldn't like--" "Where was he educated?

  • Where was I to stand amid all this confusion and contradiction?

  • Where was Jenny; in whose hands; what fate had she met?

  • Where was he now on that flattened, negligible map called America?

  • And the Indian woman, Nadu, where was she?

  • Where was she, and what was happening to her?

  • Where was he, and would he know what had happened to her?

  • But it so chanced that two boys, playing truant from school, went into a niche of the wall, where was a cannon loaded and aimed at Les Tourelles.

  • Swiftly they bore her out of the fray, into a little green vineyard, where was a soft grassy ditch.

  • So we even wended, from the height of Olivet, for six long miles, till we reached the stream opposite Checy, where was an island.

  • Now, where was "Blackie" Harrison standing?

  • He was posted at that spot--where was he standing?

  • And at the time you saw him go down in the basement, where was Vaughn?

  • Where was he when you first saw him moving?

  • Can you indicate on the map by a circle and an "X" where was it you were, generally?

  • Where was he residing then, did you know?

  • Excuse me, where was he when he said this?

  • Where was he standing with reference to the other corner?

  • Where was he when he gave you those orders?

  • Then on the second occasion when you saw it, where was it?

  • Literally "little father," a name given to an overhanging pali, where was provided a hanging ladder to make travel possible.

  • In the indiscretion begotten of her ill-balanced state of mind she committed the mortal offense of entering the royal residence while thus encumbered, where was Kaahumanu, favorite wife of Kamehameha I.

  • A small land near Kalaupapa, Molokai, where was a grove of fine pandanus trees.

  • Where was my mother in her lonely struggle?

  • Where was Bettina, in her ignorance, straying?

  • And, with that start I had learned from my mother--where was Betty?

  • Where was I with God's sigil upon my brow?

  • Where was I, as myself, as the whole man, the true man?

  • Where was Defoe at that date, and what was he doing?

  • Where was I, with God's sigil upon my brow?

  • Where was I--where was your Heloise then?

  • Where was I, and how far was I exiled from the delights of Thy house, in that sixteenth year of my age, when the madness of licence took the rule over me?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "where was" 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:
    fallen cold and dead; first knew; her way; here used; medical jurisprudence; more elevated; put you; where also; where busy all the; where else; where every; where many; where much; where possible; where shall; where she; where the public mind shall rest; where they; where thou; where was; whereas the; whereas those; wherefore should; wherefore they; wherein the; wherein they