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Example Sentences

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EBay is also pushing to expand international sales, which contributed about 20% to its total gross merchandise volume last year, through a new program wherein eBay handles customs formalities and intermediates returns.

From Reuters

That largely was described as requiring every bill to go through the committee process, wherein lawmakers would hold hearings and vote on amendments.

From Washington Times

“Her concluding trick, wherein a card jumps from a handkerchief into the core of an orange, was the hit of the show,” The Las Vegas Review-Journal said.

From New York Times

The crew was a combustible mix of regular sailors, marines and impressed crewmen — impressment being a kind of slavery wherein men were kidnapped and forced to serve for an indefinite period.

From Los Angeles Times

Holten has designed an entire typeface wherein each letter of the alphabet is assigned a tree whose popular name shares that first letter: “P” is a pine, “e” is an elm and so forth.

From Washington Post