Sentence examples for to ask whence from inspiring English sources

His weary scrutiny, reminiscent of Rembrandt's self-portraits in advancing years, seems to ask: Whence?

When asked whence they had come, they pointed to the city and said, "That way," and when asked where they were going, pointed away from the city and said, "This way".

If a moral philosopher asks "whence morality," she is more likely to be concerned with the justification of moral principles or the source and nature of obligation.

Her first post explored this question: "How should we interpret the record low minimum sea ice extent?" Her second asked: "Whence an 'ice free' Arctic?

In later eons would many a child of Folo ask, "Mother, from whence comes the saying 'When the cudgel hits the cake'?" And few could answer with any certainty.

It almost shies away from the listener as it transpires, longing to return to the silence whence it came.

A desperate defence only managed to play the ball on to the ground, whence it bounced on to the stumps.

"So take back your mink, / To from whence it came," Adelaide sings during her specialty striptease at the Hot Box Club.

The escorts bundled us out at gunpoint when we asked to enter the dark door from whence they had come – which turned out to be a factory of murder, torture and mutilation.

The duke of Ziębice (Münsterberg) pledged the town to Bohemia (1335), whence it passed to the Habsburgs.

I enjoyed it, but I look forward to returning whence I came".