How to Use wherein in a Sentence

wherein

adverb
  • Wherein lies the secret to the company's success?
  • Frequent use can cause argyria, wherein one’s skin turns blue.
    — Christopher Moyer, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The pyramid, wherein a top leader impresses his/her ideas upon a group.
    — Keith Runyon, The Courier-Journal, 23 June 2021
  • This didn’t go over well and led to a spat wherein Singer offered to plug McSweeney’s line.
    — Vogue, 29 July 2021
  • On the contrary, there have been several reports wherein parts of the tower were jostled loose.
    — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 8 Sep. 2021
  • And, silly or not, this reader always enjoyed the chapters wherein our girls had dress problems.
    — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 10 Oct. 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
  • The key is Earth’s carbon cycle, wherein carbon is exchanged among the land, water, and air.
    — Jordan Wilkerson, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • Trinitee, wherein Shakura is a co-pastor versus a pastor's wife.
    — Quinci Legardye, ELLE, 16 Sep. 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
  • 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 downside to Turner is his lack of rebounding, an area wherein Ayton is much better.
    — Morten Jensen, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Among other things, the plan endorses a policy at end-of-line stops wherein everybody aboard a train is compelled to exit.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 May 2022
  • Rather than precise symphonies, these meetings with my team are lax jam sessions wherein each of us plays to our strengths while uplifting everyone else at the same time.
    — Nimrod Golan Yanay, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The next hearing — wherein the community can comment — will be at the next meeting March 28.
    — Jesse Wright, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • In other words, fetishes tend to have a sensory component wherein people are drawn to the feel, taste, smell, or look of a particular thing.
    — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 30 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • In fact, dense breast tissue is a finding exclusive to a mammogram, wherein certain parts of the breast appear brighter than others in the resultant x-ray image.
    — Health.com, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The squeeze morphing mode is the opposite of the stretch mode, wherein one phrase is followed by a similar phrase that is performed much faster, while maintaining the same timbre and pitch.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Wired, 23 July 2021
  • For one thing, events take place in an imaginary future wherein North and South Korea have agreed on reunification.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 27 June 2022

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