Sentence examples for origin of something from inspiring English sources

We were engrossed in trying to ascertain the origin of something on a skewer when I felt a faint brush against my shoulder bag and turned around to see a woman dart off into the crowd.

"I became aware by reading a few articles that we could have really been the origin of something big".

The Oxford Dictionary defines "root" as "the basic cause, source, or origin of something" [ 26].

"It felt like an origin story of something that was the first and now we're still dealing with the reverberations of that so it feels very modern to me".

What seems to have made this one "speak to the future" is its organic rise to viral popularity on the Spotify charts, and the track's origin story of something that came about by messing around on YouTube.

The term ancestry refers to " the origin or background of something" (http://oxforddictionaries.com).

At another point in the speech, he uses a long stream of medical terminology to argue against the biochemical origins of life — something he doesn't seem to realize has nothing to do with Darwinian evolution itself.

He says that in his constituency there is a large Indian population and retiring to their country of origin is something many of his constituents would like to do – but India is on the UK's frozen list of countries.

For etymologists, establishing the origin of OK became something of an obsession, equivalent to mathematicians' long quest for the proof to Fermat's last theorem.For years Americans assumed that OK must be of American origin, if only because it was so successful.

Language for Scholem is a vehicle for understanding experience but whether it is, in fact, the very origin of experience is something Scholem never definitively argues and remains a issue of debate among Scholem's interpreters.

This is not really the Origin of Life but something abiotic, a bit earlier and eventually leading to life, which starts with The First Cell.