How to Use where in a Sentence
where
adverb- Where did you hear that?
- Where did you meet her?
- I don't know where that came from.
- Do you know where we're going?
- Where is she taking us?
- Where do the two candidates disagree on the issue?
- Where does the story get interesting?
- Where can I find books about gardening?
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Like a dinner where the main course is wild game, this item packed a punch.
—Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 25 Dec. 2021
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That would leave it to courts to decide where the election lines should go.
—Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2021
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What’s more, those rates differed based on where children lived.
—Matthew Herper, STAT, 24 May 2022
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Most pine tree species come from distant places where the soil is acid and rocky or sandy rather than clay.
—Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 25 Dec. 2021
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The disagreement arises in how to tell them where the food is.
—Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2020
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The rest of his family is in Kyiv, where he was born and raised.
—Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 27 Feb. 2022
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Then again, that’s not far from where the News Feed is already.
—Wired, 22 July 2022
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Finding out where these wells are and a funding shortfall to plug them.
—Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 5 Apr. 2021
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The plant installed a tent outside where workers could go to spread out.
—Sky Chadde and Rachel Axon, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2021
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Many consumers have wondered what to do, where to go in response.
—Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 3 July 2020
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No matter where the day takes you, this dress will rise to the occasion.
—Karla Pope, Woman's Day, 24 May 2022
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Twitter has long been a place where protests have been organized.
—Matt Burgess, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2022
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But where is that line and, more crucially, who gets to decide?
—Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 9 July 2019
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The old style where everybody can be happy, shake hands and laugh is gone.
—Hunter Woodall, kansascity, 22 Feb. 2018
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Some had risqué covers, where the woman was showing more breast.
—Julie Ma, The Cut, 20 July 2017
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They will be prescreened and notified of where to get a shot when their turns come.
—Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2021
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There is no word when or where the dozen Chernobyl pups will go up for adoption.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 16 May 2018
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But a lot can happen in short spans in cryptoland, where the years are decades, and the months are years.
—Declan Harty, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2021
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This has to be the only truck on the market where most of the bed is behind the rear axle.
—Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2019
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Emily had just picked out the spot where she would soon be interred, when cancer took her life.
—Star Tribune, 11 Oct. 2020
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The wine train in Napa Valley where the whole train is a club car!
—Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Dec. 2018
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His parents still live in the home where Arthur and his older sister grew up.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2021
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