Sentence examples for word from which from inspiring English sources

Kanda, the word from which Kandy is derived, is a Sinhalese word meaning "hill"; from the city's initial construction, about 1480 ce, it was known as Kanda Uda Pas Rata ("Palace on Five Hills").

The Old English word from which our modern word "cloud" derives, clud, didn't mean "cloud" at all but rather "rock" or "mountain"; through it, cloud is actually a distant relative of words like clot and clod.

The outside world liked to call him "the lion of Panjshir" although to his men he was simply amir (the commander) or saab, an Urdu word from which sahib is derived.In recent years Mr Masoud again retreated to the Panjshir with the advance of the Taliban.

As director and co-scriptwriter (he wrote the adaptation along with Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh) he understood that what propels the story forward are the battles between the forces of good and evil -- a word from which British stage actors can extract at least three syllables.

Patent 5,533,051, issued in 1996, covers a technique that purports to compress any data set by at least one bit without loss of information a process that, if done recursively, could shrink the Encyclopedia Britannica to a single word from which the original could be flawlessly reconstructed.

Patent 5,533,051, issued in 1996, covers a technique that purports to compress any data set by at least one bit without loss of information a process that, if done recursively, could shrink the Encyclopaedia Britannica to a single word from which the original could be flawlessly reconstructed.

The man with the ring let forth another stream of words, from which I picked up, repeatedly, eqtesad — "economy".

The man with the ring let forth another stream of words, from which I picked up, repeatedly, eqtesad—"economy".

From letters come words, from which come sentences, from which come stories, which if you retain control of them can transform lives.

Ben-Tovim left one of Kafka's Hebrew notebooks in the National Library, where I saw it this spring: a long list of those words from which Kafka expected such miracles: "tuberculosis," "to languish," "sorrow," "affliction," "genius," "pestilence," "belt".

That was especially true, he said, when one considered the limited number of words from which most people picked their passwords.