Wherever
[weər'evə] or [wɛr'ɛvɚ]
Definition
(adv.) At or in whatever place; wheresoever.
Editor: Nita
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. In whatever place.
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Examples
- Altogether, ours was a lively and a picturesque procession, and drew crowded audiences to the balconies wherever we went. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This the Muses affirm to be the stock from which discord has sprung, wherever arising; and this is their answer to us. Plato. The Republic.
- If a close coil of wire is suspended between the poles of a strong horseshoe magnet, it will not assume any characteristic position but will remain wherever placed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Since that, continued Ebrington, I have heard of nothing but Harriette Wilson wherever I went. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I mean as I'll keep you company, wherever you go, when you go away from here. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In the Hetton Railway, which ran for a part of its distance through rough country, he used stationary engines wherever he could not secure grades that would make locomotives practicable. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I know wherever a board is loose, and will avoid it. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- To walk involves a displacement and reaction of the resisting earth, whose thrill is felt wherever there is matter. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- She brings mischief wherever she goes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And when the two Miss Donnys grieved as much to part with me as the least among them, and when the maids said, Bless you, miss, wherever you go! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- At any rate she would understand at once that, wherever she went, he was going. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Move troops by the most direct road from wherever they may be on the receipt of this order. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Wherever the party stopped, and an opportunity was offered, Mr. Jos left his own card and the Major's upon Our Minister. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I am a going along with you wherever you go. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Major-General Meade was instructed that Lee's army would be his objective point; that wherever Lee went he would go also. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They had evidently been led to believe that the National troops carried death and devastation with them wherever they went. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Wherever the enemy goes, let our troops go also. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- After all, a cottage in the Abruzzi, or wherever it may be, isn't a new world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Wherever the law allows it, and the nature of the work can afford it, therefore, he will generally prefer the service of slaves to that of freemen. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- To the remaining members of the party Lily gave no special thought; wherever they were, they were not likely to interfere with her plans. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He sells, therefore, his rude produce for money, with which he can purchase, wherever it is to be had, the manufactured produce he has occasion for. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The usual corporation spirit, wherever the law does not restrain it, prevails in all regulated companies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- For this reason engineers, wherever possible, level down the steep places, and reduce the strain as far as possible. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- There is the dark then to come and from wherever we are in these hills, I can reach and do the bridge at daylight. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Soon a definite educational campaign on the value of honey as a food was started, enlisting the co-operation of beekeepers wherever possible. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Lucy, as a last resource, gave him a letter for Idris, to be delivered to her wherever he should meet us. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In the first place, history shows that wherever polygamy has been largely allowed the race has deteriorated. Plato. The Republic.
- From Bath, Norfolk, London, York, wherever I may be, said he; I will attend you from any place in England, at an hour's notice. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The wickedness has not been taken out of you, wherever you have sojourned. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They are as old as religion, and have been found wherever evidence of religious rites of any description have been found, as they constituted part of the instrumentalities of such rites. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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