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How to use provenance in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun, verb

Provenance means place or source of origin. Example: “Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.”

Examples of provenance by meaning

nounPlace or source of origin.

  • Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
  • Within this melee of intersections between English and Cantonese, the students, being themselves bilingually fluent, were able to navigate with perfect ease in communicative contexts where the provenance of a certain term or expression matters little.2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries...

nounThe place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.

  • This spear is of Viking provenance.
  • Further support for the Shansi provenance came in 1965, when a bronze quadruped with identical ornamentation and of approximately the same size as the Freer example was unearthed in tomb 126, at Fen-shui-ling, Ch'ang-chih, Shansi Province.1982, Thomas Lawton, “Bronze Vessels, Fittings, and Weapons”, in Chinese Art of the Warring States Period, Smithsonian Institution, →ISBN...

nounThe history of ownership of a work of art.

  • The picture is of royal provenance.

More sentences with provenance

  • Most of the provenanced pottery vessels were found in San Diego county middens.From the entry provenanced
  • The auction house had a history of selling provenanced fine art.From the entry provenanced
  • Sturzströme, irrespective of their provenance, have elements in common suggesting a ubiquitous mechanism of motion and emplacement.2012, Canadian Geotechnical Journal: Revue Canadienne de Géotechnique. From the entry sturzstrom
  • Whatever the provenance, the result is a delightfully novel take on a stalwart, often deadening Victorian feature.2009, Tim Richardson, Great Gardens of America, London: Frances Lincoln Limited, →ISBN, page 87. From the entry take
  • The most popular container orchestrator, Kubernetes, is what this book focuses on and for good reason due to its provenance.2021, Chris Binnie, Rory McCune, Cloud Native Security, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN. From the entry orchestrator
  • Universality has its provenance in the absolute singularity of this death-destroying anastasic moment at the impossible interface between time and eternity.2015, Carl Raschke, Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy, →ISBN. From the entry anastasic
  • The provenance of ant nose money is widely spread.[1951, Wang Yü-ch’üan, “Money Before Coinage — Cowries and their Imitations”, in Early Chinese Coinage, New York: Sanford J. Durst…. From the entry Gushi
  • One could say that both the prompter’s method of application and the device’s historical provenance result in theatricity being its most prominent characteristic.2021, Jan Stasieńko, “The Teleprompter and the posthuman repositioning of the gaze”, in Media Technologies and Posthuman Intimacy, New…. From the entry theatricity
  • De Koog De Koog's main drag, Dorpstraat, Texel's tourist haven, is lined with cheap chipperies, bistros of uncertain provenance and the island's only concentration of boisterous bars.2016, Lonely Planet The Netherlands. From the entry chippery
  • Among the ensemble’s strange, outmoded, “original” instruments — the feral horns, sour violins, wooden flutes, cellos without endpins — she seemed right at home, despite her Broadway provenance.2007 July 8, Jesse Green, “Let Her Entertain You. Please!”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2020. From the entry feral
  • The dealer’s stated provenance for these pieces was Shan-hsien, Honan Province, an area that, in spite of its many tumuli, never was known for its subterranean treasures.1973, Jan Fontein, Tung Wu, “Introduction”, in Unearthing China's Past, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21. From the entry Ling-pao

Meaning of provenance

  1. noun Place or source of origin.
  2. noun The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.
  3. noun The history of ownership of a work of art.

Full definition of provenance

Questions about provenance in a sentence

How do you use provenance in a sentence?
Provenance is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.”
What is a short sentence with provenance?
“The picture is of royal provenance.”
What does provenance mean?
Provenance means place or source of origin.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: provenance (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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