WHERE in a Sentence

Learn WHERE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
373 example sentences for WHERE, such as:
1. There are galleries where you could run.
2. It's no worse than hidin where a bird's nest is.
3. My leg is still very tender where it was bruised.
4. That trial is not fair where affection is the judge.
5. We rang Duncan to ask where he was going on holiday.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of WHERE
where
 ad.  in or to what place or position;
Classic Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
1  "You showed me where the key was yesterday," she said.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  There's a place in th park woods here where there's snowdrops by thousands.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI. Pig and Pepper
4  While she was looking at the place where it had been, it suddenly appeared again.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI. Pig and Pepper
5  She led him round the laurel path and to the walk where the ivy grew so thickly.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  This was when she began to ask where the flowers were to be planted.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  It's a big place and you may go where you like and amuse yourself as you like.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  And he knows where foxes and badgers and otters live.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  It's no worse than hidin where a bird's nest is.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  "That is the garden where Ben Weatherstaff works," said Mary.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
11  "This is where the robin flew over the wall," she said.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
12  There are galleries where you could run.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
13  There is a little Indian room where there is a cabinet full of ivory elephants.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
14  But in spite of her, Tom knew where the wind lay, now.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
15  Tom chased the traitor home, and thus found out where he lived.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (171 in 12 pages)
1  This was, New York apart, the first American city I had ever been in where people actually lived downtown.
2  What does it matter where I am if you are not with me.
3  Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
4  It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
5  Searchers fanned out over the area where the missing child was last seen.
6  Her arm was beginning to swell up where the bee had stung her.
7  We rang Duncan to ask where he was going on holiday.
8  Go where he will, the wise man is at home His harth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
9  I tried to avoid the back room where the undesirable elements were gathered.
10  The treatment will continue until the patient reaches the point where he can walk correctly and safely.
11  That trial is not fair where affection is the judge.
12  You see it in nonhuman primates, where the new alpha male comes into the troop and mates.
13  Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
14  My leg is still very tender where it was bruised.
15  The sidewalk is very uneven—be careful where you walk.