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origin - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- universe: Problems with the Hot Big Bang Conventional ideas fail to explain or even describe the ultimate origin of the universe.
- Christianity: From the way in which this is written, Tacitus did not claim firsthand knowledge of the origins of Christianity.
- Freemasonry: This unique title is a result of the very different history and origin of Scottish Freemasonry.
- trotskyism: Quoted in George Jan Lerski, Origins of Trotskyism in Ceylon, p26.
- rhyme: There is no specific relevance to events in history for the origins of this rhyme.
Converse of object
- trace: My principal interest at the moment is in tracing the origin of the family name.
- disguise: However, transshipment is a growing concern with fraudsters breaking routes to disguise the origin of the goods.
- explain: The opening address was given by Mrs Lynn Allen who set out the objectives and explained the Canadian origins.
- indicate: This is the family name and indicates the Persian origin of the family.
- suggest: There is however an old fort on the eastern shoulder, which would suggest an origin in caer, a fort.
- explore: Pillar of the sky is her one excursion into prehistory so far which sets out to explore the origins of Stonehenge.
Adjective modifier
- ethnic: JL: He should be sent back to his land of ethnic origin.
- humble: He was a wonderful, able and private man full of humanity who never forgot his humble origins in the classless Rhonda valley.
- unknown: Do not feed foreign honey or honey of unknown origin, which may contain AFB spores.
- racial: One can only imagine what purpose it serves to investigate the racial origins of the ex-wife of an accused terrorist.
- Asian: Only 10 % of the children registered with the GDS were of Asian ethnic origin compared with 54 % of those attending the CDS.
- volcanic: From the azure seas that surround the island, the lush, fertile terrain quickly rises to a series of peaks of volcanic origin.
Modifies a noun
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Noun used with modifier
- pagan: First, some object on the basis that Christmas trees have pagan origins.
- Viking: York is an historic city of Roman and Viking origins.
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