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Example sentences for "whereas"

Lexicographically close words:
wherby; where; whereabout; whereabouts; whereafter; whereat; whereaway; whereby; whereever; wherefor
  1. If she goes into the garden she will at once notice that the cat is lost; whereas if you can keep her away for the day it will give us so much more time.

  2. Whereas Rubens had in any perfection neither; the one not at all, and the other only in a minor part and degree.

  3. Contemporary writers who mention the rains say nothing of fog on the 29th, whereas they do notice its appearance the next morning.

  4. Their Army is, and must be, divided into many bodies, and fatigued with keeping up a communication with their ships; whereas ours is connected and can act together.

  5. Footnote 151: The Hessians are usually credited with taking a prominent part in this battle, whereas the day was practically decided before they came up.

  6. The darkness, moreover, in which he was enveloped offered an additional protection, whereas the torches they carried made his mark certain.

  7. And though the latter is the more important, inasmuch as several lives hang upon it, whereas a conjuror's worthless reputation is alone dependent on the other, yet both must be kept.

  8. A somewhat strange feeling came over us on finding ourselves marching mainly towards the North Star to meet the enemy, whereas we had so long been accustomed to look and march only southward for this purpose.

  9. However, there is as yet nothing in our tout ensemble to distinguish us from infantry or artillery, except the yellow trimming of our blue uniforms, whereas the infantry has the light-blue trimming, and the artillery bright red.

  10. And whereas in time of God's visitation by the plague such assemblies of the people in throng and press have been very dangerous for spreading of infection.

  11. Such a dual organization, it seemed to him, was now more or less necessary, since the number of boy choristers in the Chapel Royal was limited to twelve, whereas the acting of plays demanded at least twice as many.

  12. Its cry to the east and north of a village foretells something good for the villagers, whereas the cry at midday means an impending calamity.

  13. There is a proverb that the Siva Brahman (temple priest) eats well, whereas the Viramushti hurts himself with the sword, and suffers much.

  14. Wild elephants are said to be held in veneration by the jungle Kadirs, whereas tame ones are believed to have lost the divine element.

  15. In his writing, too, he displays his harshness--swoops hither and thither a butterfly equipped with sharp little beak and talons; whereas in his painting we are conscious only of his caressing sense of beauty.

  16. Whereas in the grate even a quite little fire never ceases to be amusing and inspiring until you let it out.

  17. Grown-up people have no manners at all; whereas they certainly have a very keen taste for the intrinsic charm of children.

  18. A painting is a thing in two dimensions, whereas man is in three.

  19. For instance, the poor nobleman covets wealth, because wealth would bring him comfort, whereas the nouveau riche covets a pedigree, because a pedigree would make him of what he is merely in.

  20. Were virtue nothing but stoicism, then it were a mere child of reason, whereas it is at the highest her foster-daughter.

  21. Many and really glaring incivilities, however, I willingly forgive my future reviewer, whereas I pardon nothing to a Gallic or British one, because he knows how one should treat people.

  22. All hung over so ruinous and moss-grown as if on the verge of a collapse, whereas the clean mirror-walls of Maienthal rose firm and radiant.

  23. Whereas he begins to wave a flap and show how ready they are to be off--for what else were the good of him?

  24. I find myself shut out of my very own, unable to say what is oftenest in my thought; whereas the dear, miraculous dream you were, and are, my Ba!

  25. You who talk wildly of my generosity, whereas I only and most impotently tried to be generous, must see how both suppositions have their possibility.

  26. And, whereas some people, I suppose, have to lash themselves up to the due point of passion, and choose the happy minutes to be as loving in as they possibly can .

  27. She thought it was at her they were laughing, whereas the fact was that Chatty was supposed by those who heard her to be a satirist of more than usual audacity, putting a coxcomb to deserved but ruthless shame.

  28. His father had not left a very tender image in his mind, whereas his mother was all the world to the invalid boy.

  29. The wicked wife ought to have planned this villainous trick as a way of vengeance against him: whereas it was evident that she had meant only kindness, abandoned creature as she was.

  30. If they had stuck to you they might have done a deal with you, Warrender: whereas I should have done just the same whether they took any notice of me or not.

  31. And the poor bride, the unfortunate Miss Warrender, should with all her family have sworn everlasting feud with him, whereas it was known that Chatty took his part, and would say nothing but that they were very unfortunate both.

  32. N/10 NaOH) substance resulted in both grain and flesh being tanned with a black colour, whereas the interior of the pelt was pickled (white colour).

  33. Relatively to their reactions, all the products strongly precipitate gelatine, whereas only the condensation products of phenol, cresol, and xylenol derivatives give a characteristic coloration with iron salts.

  34. This clearly proves that free and condensed phenolsulphonic acids as such are not capable of completely solubilising phlobaphenes, whereas the sodium salts of free and condensed phenolsulphonic acids possess this property.

  35. Further, it may be noted that leathers tanned--with Neradol D fix basic coal-tar dyes excellently, whereas acid and substantive dyestuffs are fixed with other than their natural shades.

  36. Whereas the galloyl compound is easily soluble in cold water, its isomer is hardly soluble in hot, and completely insoluble in cold water.

  37. It is said that in Florida, where the summer climate is hot and sultry, oranges mature in six months, whereas a year is required in California.

  38. One of the party suggested that whereas Professor T.

  39. Life in the country is full of practical teachings; whereas life in the city may be degraded by frivolities and pleasures, which are too often the foes of work.

  40. We in fact employ only eight fewer workmen than formerly; whereas more than three times that number have been employed for a year and a half in building the machine.

  41. In the latitude of Portsmouth this only amounted to eighteen geographical miles, whereas the Act had awarded that the prize should be given where the longitude was determined within the distance of thirty geographical miles.

  42. Development by the State ensures the fullest possible utilization of the power possibilities of each stream, whereas development by uncontrolled private enterprise often involves waste of resources.

  43. The whites, too, had the advantage of being accustomed to walking exercise, whereas the Indians, almost living on horseback, are seldom in the habit of using their feet.

  44. If he had, he would be a rhetorician; whereas he is a statesman.

  45. False taste differs from false wit, for the latter is always an affectation--an effort to do wrong; whereas the former is often a habit of doing wrong without effort, and following instinctively an established bad example.

  46. Whereas the spirit must lovingly embrace the body, as the roots of a tree embrace the ground, drawing thence rich nourishment, warmth, impulse.

  47. Far more as a means, next to nothing as an end: whereas we are wont to take it the other way, and think the result something, but the means a weariness.

  48. This maketh me at home to hunt and hawk, And in foul weather at my book to sit, In frost and snow, then with my bow to stalk, No man does mark whereas I ride or go: In lusty leas at liberty I walk.

  49. Whereas with the preposition, the words united are not similar, but opposed, the limiting and the limited notion.

  50. The source of the last is altogether physical and corporeal, whereas moral causes often co-operate in the highest degree to the production of the former two.

  51. Painting directs itself wholly to the eye, whereas sculpture appeals indeed to the eye, but only as the necessary medium for satisfying the corporeal sense and feeling.

  52. The street which skirted the house turned and likewise skirted, on the left, the garden and the Yard, whereas on the right the property was bordered by a narrow lane which led to some fields and abandoned quarries.

  53. We thus find that Mars, Jupiter and the moon were invisible, whereas the sun and Venus were at 50 and 23 degrees respectively above the horizon of Annonay and, of course, towards the west.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whereas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    albeit; although; because; being; catch; clause; condition; for; given; grounds; joker; kicker; now; obligation; parameter; prerequisite; provision; proviso; requisite; since; specification; stipulation; string; terms; ultimatum; when; whereas; while


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    whereas the; whereas they; whereas those