How to Use wherein in a Sentence

wherein

adverb

• Wherein lies the secret to the company's success?
• This didn’t go over well and led to a spat wherein Singer offered to plug McSweeney’s line.
  — Vogue, 29 July 2021
• There’s also the Ear Hang, wherein the mask is unhooked from one ear and dangles from the other.
  — Maddy Sweitzer-Lamme, Bon Appétit, 11 May 2021
• That’s a maneuver wherein the driver of the first car in line at a stoplight signals to turn left.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2021
• That’s sort of what happens with cancer, wherein cells start to mooch off of their colleagues, Márquez-Zacarías told me.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2022
• It’s an age-old trope — that one wherein high society loves to feel young, hip, and good-hearted.
  — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2022
• But Oddball, wherein teams compete to hold a ball for the most amount of time, is a bit of a momentum killer with two rounds needed for teams to win.
  — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2021
• The key is Earth’s carbon cycle, wherein carbon is exchanged among the land, water, and air.
  — Jordan Wilkerson, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2021
• The Other Woman, wherein a trio of jilted women take revenge on the same man who cheated on them.
  — Nona Willis Aronowitz, ELLE, 15 Feb. 2022
• The next hearing — wherein the community can comment — will be at the next meeting March 28.
  — Jesse Wright, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2022
• But trends are pointing towards a new era wherein the baby heels are getting some credit for how they’re jazzed up.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 6 Dec. 2021
• On the contrary, there have been several reports wherein parts of the tower were jostled loose.
  — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 8 Sep. 2021
• There’s festive cheer and machine guns and songs and an ending wherein all conflict is resolved.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 28 Nov. 2022
• There are three mentions of 'sperm stealing' in the Bible, wherein a woman is described as seducing a man in order to take his seed.
  — Zoe Beaty, refinery29.com, 31 Jan. 2022
• Then came the equally viral videos that followed, wherein a sea of TikTokers put Beer’s makeup routine to the test.
  — Rachel Besser, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2021
• The pyramid, wherein a top leader impresses his/her ideas upon a group.
  — Keith Runyon, The Courier-Journal, 23 June 2021
• But then the next day they're presented with a video neither can remember making, wherein one of them kills the other.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 20 July 2022
• Where mother and child find themselves, as characters in so many scary movies do, is in a house beside a lake, wherein resides the stuff of nightmares.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 12 May 2022
• The downside to Turner is his lack of rebounding, an area wherein Ayton is much better.
  — Morten Jensen, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• So goes the Schoolhouse Rock song, wherein a bill in Congress explains its journey from idea to written proposal to law.
  — Adam M. Carrington, National Review, 19 Nov. 2021
• Frequent use can cause argyria, wherein one’s skin turns blue.
  — Christopher Moyer, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2021
• Dindio likes to use the brick-and-mortar analogy, wherein the bricks are the skin cells and the mortar is composed of lipids, to explain oil's role in moisturizing skin.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 11 Jan. 2022
• And, silly or not, this reader always enjoyed the chapters wherein our girls had dress problems.
  — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 10 Oct. 2021
• And if that doesn’t catch on, Kastner says Plan B is a freemium model, wherein most features will be free but others will require users to pay to unlock.
  — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 3 Nov. 2021
• The basis for adopting the left line is that in a society wherein the cars are designed with the driver in the left side seat, presumably, drivers can easily align with the left line.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 July 2021
• Most prayer rugs feature what is called a niche design, which represents the mihrab, a semicircular part of a mosque wall wherein Muslims pray.
  — Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful, 8 June 2021
• This was due to an incredible offer for new subscribers, wherein Amazon cut the price of select add-on channels to $0.99 for the first two months of subscription.
  — Reviewed Staff, USA TODAY, 24 June 2021
• But that would set up a situation wherein its airlines will have trouble leasing planes in the future, even after the sanctions end.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 11 Mar. 2022
• While on a brief getaway in Mexico, Judy died, as implied in a quiet but affecting scene wherein Jen gazed out into the sea and spotted a sailboat floating along the water.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2022
• This extends to other fields like artificial intelligence, wherein computers use machine learning techniques to help build an algorithm that identifies the important details and the amount of variation within them for tasks like facial recognition.
  — Chris Gorski, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024