Sentence examples for of questionable provenance from inspiring English sources
The phrase "of questionable provenance" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe something whose origin or source is uncertain or dubious. Example: "The artifact was found in an old attic, but its of questionable provenance, raising doubts about its authenticity."
Mr. Garner likes to place musty books of questionable provenance in the sun to cure.
Over the years the Met has returned many objects of questionable provenance to other countries.
Cars were rejected, Mr. Jackson said, for not being in sale-ready condition; for the type of restoration or modifications done; and for those of questionable provenance.
If people think that maybe these toys are perhaps of questionable provenance, not to say hot, they should not think that.
Washington's case that the Iraqi regime had failed to meet its obligation to give up weapons of mass destruction was, of course, based on much more than a few documents of questionable provenance from a small African nation.
There's certainly some nutrition in these meals, but a whole lot of empty calories as well: anecdotes as intent on titillation as illumination; scoops of questionable provenance and dubious reliability; winding digressions from anything central to public discourse.
It reaches everywhere: the National Gallery in London has a long list of questionable provenances, including the famous panel by Lucas Cranach, Cupid Complaining to Venus, which during the second world war was in Hitler's personal collection.
At the same time, the Metropolitan Museum of Art posted a list of works with questionable provenance on its Web site, and it plans to include illustrations of all 344 works now on the list by the end of the year.
*See also Andrew's superb series of posts yesterday on the questionable provenance of McCain's "cross in the dirt" anecdote.
His top price is $100, to reduce the risks of inauthenticity or questionable provenance.
Dr. Bortolet's laboratory, in an industrial park in Branford, is crammed with files, periodicals, gadgets and artworks of sometimes antique, often questionable, provenance.
