ORIGINATE in a Sentence

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392 example sentences for ORIGINATE, such as:
1. The visit did not originate with him.
2. Many Americans are African by origin.
3. You think the word's origin is Latin?
4. , of Stepney, the source and origin of the busts.
5. Darwin stated that the species originate by descent.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ORIGINATE
originate
 v.  bring into being
 v.  begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc.
Classic Sentence: (208 in 14 pages)
1  The visit did not originate with him.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
2  And finding nobody about the parlours, it occurred to him, that he could perhaps originate the proceedings with better effect in the kitchen; so into the kitchen he went.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
3  This did not originate in inherent shamelessness, but in her living too far from the world to feel the impact of public opinion.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
4  Dinner went off gayly, and although my guardian seemed to follow rather than originate subjects, I knew that he wrenched the weakest part of our dispositions out of us.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
5  The idea did not originate in my own discernment, I am bound to confess, but in a speech of Rosa Dartle's.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29. I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN
6  Large experiments in politics and in co-operative distribution, ventures requiring knowledge, courage, and imagination, do originate in the West and Middlewest, but they are not of the towns, they are of the farmers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
7  But the demands of a free people are hurtful to freedom, since they originate either in being oppressed, or in the fear that they are about to be so.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV.
8  There had also been a very strange custom, whose origin was unknown, of marching every Sunday morning past a boar's skull which was nailed to a post in the garden.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
9  He delighted to live, barrack-fashion, among the elegant furniture, and he bullied the very pictures with his origin.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
10  It was of Eastern origin, having been brought from the Holy Land; and the mixture of the cymbals and bells seemed to bid welcome at once, and defiance, to the knights as they advanced.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  "This was, in fact, the origin of our acting," said Tom, after a moment's thought.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  All that sounded extravagant or irrational in the progress of the reconciliation might have no origin but in the language of the relators.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
13  Yet scarcely a single accent among the many afloat tonight could have such power to impress a listener with thoughts of its origin.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
14  A few minutes later we were joined by a short, stout man whose olive face and coal-black hair proclaimed his Southern origin, though his speech was that of an educated Englishman.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
15  , of Stepney, the source and origin of the busts.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
Example Sentence: (184 in 13 pages)
1  All theories originate from / in practice and in turn serve practice.
2  Darwin stated that the species originate by descent.
3  The Japanese yen would face the uncertainty that would originate from the Greek uncertainty
4  Many Americans are African by origin.
5  There is widespread discrimination against doctors of Asian origin.
6  The term "black hole" is of very recent origin.
7  She made an interesting broadcast about the origin of modern music.
8  Many words in the English language are French in origin.
9  They are collecting this material at the points of origin.
10  A question on ethnic origin was included in the census.
11  Darwin generalized from many facts to reach his idea about the origin of man.
12  You again how boethius observed all still could not return to the origin.
13  Rivalries thus developed within the administration among officials of different places of origin.
14  You think the word's origin is Latin?
15  The science of life and of living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution, includes botany and zoology and all their subdivisions.