How to Use provenance in a Sentence

provenance

noun

• Has anyone traced the provenances of these paintings?
• The artifact is of unknown provenance.
• There is the rare piece that Lawson doesn’t know the provenance of.
  — Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 4 Nov. 2024
• The first problem is the provenance of the sky disk itself.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2021
• Its provenance is a bit of a mystery, and the sparkler has been rarely seen since.
  — Janine Henni, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
• The provenance of the bearing pads is deeper in the supply chain.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2021
• To be able to get an aircraft with this kind of record, this kind of provenance . . .
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2020
• Of course, single malt is not the provenance of Scotland alone.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2022
• There is some mystery surrounding the provenance of Princess Anne’s copy of the brooch.
  — Jennifer Newman, Town & Country, 17 May 2022
• Throughout the art world, the provenance of certain pieces is always top of mind.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2023
• But the provenance of some of the more alarmist Biden-is-feeble memes, many of them built on raw footage of a few stumbles, is murky.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2024
• One enigma Whalen still wonders about is the provenance of the water in Earth’s oceans.
  — Conor Feehly, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2025
• In the wider scope of history, the ponytail’s precise provenance is a bit hazy.
  — Alessandra Codinha, Vogue, 27 June 2023
• Jeremiah’s take on the provenance of man — titled The Story.
  — Christopher Mosley, Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2020
• There’s a question about the provenance of some of the ballots, and others clearly run afoul of Iowa law.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 26 Mar. 2021
• Once mainly the provenance of the US, killer drones have now spread widely to both state and non-state actors.
  — Joshua Keating, Vox, 18 Sep. 2024
• The provenance of the object, the officials said, is still unknown.
  — New York Times, 3 June 2021
• In the front seat is William, an assistant at CAA whose provenance is a bit of a mystery.
  — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 7 July 2021
• Spencer contacted experts around the world in a bid to find out more about its provenance.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 15 Dec. 2021
• The agreement comes just months after the Met announced a push to hire more provenance researchers.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
• Most luthiers are wise to this and many strive to be mindful of the provenance of their raw materials.
  — Ellen Ruppel Shell, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2022
• The provenance for its fine Benin plaque is incomplete.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2021
• The images of the Poltimore at the royal wedding (and in the bathtub) added to its new royal provenance.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 29 Nov. 2019
• Blockchain has long been touted as a way of ensuring the provenance of goods in a supply chain.
  — Brady Dale, Axios, 4 Feb. 2025
• But none of this was a shock given the provenance, quality, and looks of this Bugatti.
  — Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 14 Jan. 2025
• This seems very similar to the provenance of the concert stage today.
  — Lynn Whidden, Scientific American, 26 July 2024
• Of course, many mysteries still remain about the provenance of our species.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 21 Oct. 2020
• And by no means were all the sculptures mail-order pieces with no real provenance.
  — Caroline Spivack, Curbed, 27 May 2021
• The Art Institute created its provenance research team in 2020.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2025
• As part of sharing their stories, the participants would affix a brown paper luggage tag to the object to keep a record of the object’s provenance, or its history of ownership.
  — Emma Cieslik, Them, 13 Mar. 2025