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How to use origin in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Origin means the beginning of something. Example: “The custom has its origin in ancient Greece.”

Examples of origin by meaning

nounThe beginning of something.

  • place of origin
  • trace the origin of something
  • The custom has its origin in ancient Greece.

nounThe source of a river, information, goods, etc.

  • Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37

More sentences with origin

  • Although many grapevines have geographical names, these rarely reflect their real origin, if known at all.From the entry grapevine
  • Though he had lived in England for many years, a faint accent betrayed his Swedish origin.From the entry betray
  • The origins of the conditions and disorders that exceptional learners have are not always well understood.From the entry exceptional
  • We looked up the origin of her name in an onomasticon.From the entry onomasticon
  • The poached blubber was definitely cetacean in origin, but the particular species could not be identified.From the entry cetacean
  • "Calque" is a loanword with French origins, and "loanword" is a calque with German origins.From the entry loanword
  • It says "Made in Mexico". I wonder if that is the real country of origin.From the entry country of origin
  • The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.From the entry of
  • The journalist burrowed into the origins of the mayor's corruption.From the entry burrow
  • Some comets are thought to have an extrasolar origin.From the entry extrasolar
  • Halomancy is the origin of the superstition surrounding spilled salt.From the entry halomancy
  • The graffiti contains many anteclassical words of uncertain origin.From the entry anteclassical
  • Her New Yorkese gave her origins away instantly.From the entry New Yorkese
  • Much of Urdu's vocabulary is of Perso-Arabic origin.From the entry Perso-Arabic
  • Her doctoral thesis concerned the origins of the cosmic background.From the entry cosmic background
  • Alternatively, some view "oy vey" as being entirely Yiddish (Judeo-German) in origin.2025 December 18 (last accessed), “What Does “Oy Vey” Mean?”, in Chabad.org, archived from the original on 13 May 2025. From the entry oy vey
  • In fact, Argiolas has suggested some to be of Berber origin.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 18. From the entry Punicism
  • More unsettling was the origin story of the infamous tell-all book Princess in Love.April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair. From the entry spill the beans
  • The origins of the cyberpunk genre involve Western anxieties about the East.2020 December 8, George Yang, “Orientalism, ‘Cyberpunk 2077,’ and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction”, in Wired, →ISSN. From the entry techno-orientalism
  • The origins of factionalism in Yi Korea can probably be traced back to the sahwa (literati purges).2020, Ching Young Choe, The Rule of the Taewŏnʾgun, 1864-1873, page 205. From the entry sahwa
  • Its motivation, its origins, its modus operandi— how much of that can be known?2019 December 9, qntm, “Wild Light”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 191. From the entry checkmate
  • There are some registrations that associate the cucurbitas to the origin of the agriculture and the civilization.2019, Marina F. de-Escalada-Pla, Silvia K. Flores, Adriana P. Castellanos-Fuentes, Carolina E. Genevois, edited by Alexandru Grumezescu…. From the entry cucurbita
  • First, the value-added contribution from each origin country is adjusted according to their (nowcasted) change in GDP.2019, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Transnational Corporations, page 124. From the entry nowcast
  • The recognition of what pollutes evidently reflects deep-seated abhorrences, whose cause and origin are difficult to discover.2018, Dr. Philip J. Budd, David Allen Hubbard, Glenn W. Barker, Numbers, volume 5, page 55. From the entry abhorrence
  • This story can be taken as a myth of the origin of death.2017, Helen Hardacre, Shinto: A History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry Yomi
  • Hodor’s origin is finally revealed as well, with Bran warging into the big man’s body.2017, Rowan Kaiser, 100 Things Game of Thrones Fans Should Do & Know Before They Die, page 72. From the entry warg
  • Among the neoptile feathers occur isolated bristle-like filaments, whose origin and function are unclear.2017 June 28, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian. From the entry neoptile
  • The bulge exhibits cylindrical rotation consistent with a disky origin which evolved through bar driven secular evolution.2016, Carine Babusiaux, “Correlations between kinematics and metallicity in the Galactic bulge: a review”, in arXiv. From the entry disky
  • SER is used to classify or identify attributes like, description, occupation, characteristic, time, origin or relationship.2016 May, Edwin Alverio, ¡Manos a la Obra!, page 60. From the entry doctor
  • As we know, in Egypt, the country of origin for this instrument (cf.2015, Louise C. Langford-Verstegen, Hagios Charalambos: A Minoan Burial Cave in Crete, volume II (The Pottery), Philadelphia, Pa.: INSTAP…. From the entry papyros
  • For example, smooth muscle cells (SMCs) have been shown to the origin of osteochondroblastic cells.2015 July 6, “Vascular Adventitia Calcification and Its Underlying Mechanism”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry osteochondroblastic
  • Neurological examination revealed upper thoracic myeloradiculopathy probably of neoplastic origin with sensory localization to D5 spinal level.2015, Sudhansu Sekhar Mishra et al., “Isolated thoracic (D5) intramedullary epidermoid cyst without spinal dysraphism: A rare case…. From the entry myeloradiculopathy
  • These underpeople were even less human than the androids, their very appearance making obvious their animal origins.2015, A. Bertram Chandler, The Inheritors, →ISBN. From the entry underperson
  • Its exact origins are unknown, but appear to be in the Middle East.2015, Emma Borghesi, The Beans & Grains Bible, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry Khorasan wheat
  • The origin of Gates’ decapitation of the Air Force’s top leadership clearly lie with the F-22.2014 March, John A. Tirpak, “Gates versus the Air Force”, in Air Force Magazine, page 56. From the entry ire
  • Only science could yield positive knowledge—hence the passion for positivism, and the origin of the term.2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry positivism

Meaning of origin

  1. noun The beginning of something.
  2. noun The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
  3. noun The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.

Full definition of origin

Questions about origin in a sentence

How do you use origin in a sentence?
Origin is used as a noun. For example: “The custom has its origin in ancient Greece.”
What is a short sentence with origin?
“place of origin”
What does origin mean?
Origin means the beginning of something.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: origin (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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