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How to use wherever in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb, conjunction

Wherever means where ever; an emphatic form of where. Example: “Wherever have you been all my life?”

Examples of wherever by meaning

adverbWhere ever; an emphatic form of where.

  • Wherever have you been all my life?

adverbIn, at or to any place that one likes or chooses.

  • I don't care what you do with it; just put it wherever.
  • Where do you want to have lunch? — Wherever; I don't mind.

adverbThe place (no matter where) in, at or to which.

  • He's back from wherever he's been hiding.
  • Go home to wherever you belong.

conjunctionRegardless of the place in, at or to which.

  • Wherever you go, I’ll find you.

conjunctionIn, at or to any place (that); anywhere.

  • You can sit wherever you like.
  • I'd follow you wherever you went.

conjunctionIn, at or to all places or situations (that); everywhere.

  • Add quotations wherever they are needed.
  • I see mistakes wherever I look.
  • Our charity has limited funds, but we help wherever we can.

conjunctionUsed to show that one does not know where someone or something is located.

  • She lives in Puddletown, wherever that is.

More sentences with wherever

  • In a democratic world you'd be able to say what you thought wherever you were.From the entry able
  • You can play wherever you want, but remember that the cemetery is out of bounds.From the entry out of bounds
  • A wall-mounted table is the ideal, flexible solution wherever your space is limited.From the entry wall-mounted
  • Wild animals abound wherever man does not stake his claim.From the entry abound
  • The man was faithful to his wife, ignoring the many blonde beautifuls who surrounded him wherever he went.From the entry beautiful
  • The drifting seaweed went wherever the currents carried it.From the entry drifting
  • He was extremely ill-mannered and caused offence wherever he went.From the entry ill-mannered
  • He was extremely bad-mannered and caused offence wherever he went.From the entry bad-mannered
  • I drop knowledge wherever I go.From the entry drop
  • Attempting to translate such ciphers wherever she encountered them was Mrs Touchet’s private delight.2023, Zadie Smith, The Fraud, Hamish Hamilton, page 145. From the entry decipherer
  • Wherever sequential alphabets gained power, cultures became more transfixed by linear time.2019 January 17, RJ Andrews, Info We Trust: How to Inspire the World with Data, page 53. From the entry levidrome
  • Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.2018, Brent Butt, “Sasquatch Your Language”, in Corner Gas Animated. From the entry poo
  • Wherever Eliot went, Agent Ackerman appeared five seconds later, automatically locked onto her coordinates.2017 September 19, Ryan Graudin, Invictus, →ISBN, unnumbered page. From the entry Ackerman
  • I'll come pick you up from wherever you're staying and show you everything you need to see.2017, Sophie Hannah, Keep Her Safe: A Novel, HarperCollins, →ISBN. From the entry club car
  • Shaunna was suddenly in front of him, her voice bringing him back from wherever he'd been.2014, Debbie McGowan, Crying in the Rain, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry away with the fairies
  • All he knew is that the good life accompanied urinating wherever he pleased.2014, Jim Heynen, “Keeping One’s Secret”, in Ordinary Sins: After Theophrastus, Minneapolis, Minn.: Milkweed Editions, →ISBN, page 82. From the entry urinator
  • Wherever you are, I know that you're at peace and so I should be, too.2014, Nina Foxx, A Letter for My Mother, page 123. From the entry looksake
  • He composed hymns, read holy works, and carried his bookchests wherever he went.2013, Nancy Marie Brown, The Abacus and the Cross, page 206. From the entry bookchest
  • The stuff I had broke apart easily and any fragments would attach and grow wherever they landed.2013 April 4, Islandoftiki, “Macro Algae ID?”, in Nano-Reef.com. From the entry dictyota
  • Going out on the streets, or wherever, making money and working hard for it.2013, Gayton McKenzie, A Hustler's Bible, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry outcun
  • Wherever there's a regulator beating up on a banker, I'll be there."2012, Gary Weiss, Ayn Rand Nation: The Hidden Struggle for America's Soul, St. Martin's Press. From the entry Tom Joad
  • They bore the cold winter nights sleeping in tents, showering and bathing whenever and wherever possible.2010, Sebastian Myladiyil, Blown Together: The Trials and Miracles of Katrina, Mobile, Ala.: Evergreen Press, →ISBN, page 200. From the entry thanksgiving
  • 'Might as well come out now, you little snip, from wherever you be hiding!'2010, Ellen Renner, Castle of Shadows, Hachette UK, published 2010, →ISBN. From the entry snip
  • “You will take the magistra and magister wherever they need to go, please.2009, Alison Sinclair, Darkborn, New American Library, →ISBN. From the entry magistra
  • Wherever an object fails to undergo EPP-driven raising into the vP-domain, it remains VP-internal.2009, Theresa Biberauer, Ian Roberts, “The return of the Subset Principle”, in Paola Crisma, Giuseppe Longobardi, editors, Historical…. From the entry vp
  • Toys are fomites and contribute to illness in children wherever the toys are shared.2009, Robert I. Krasner, The Microbial Challenge: Science, Disease and Public Health, page 166. From the entry fomites
  • Every third day it spewed out soot balls that left black smears wherever they fell.2008, Alexandra Morton, Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry soot ball
  • The separated head of Namuci followed Indra, accusing him of amicide and Brahmicide, wherever Indra went.2006, Zacharias P Thundy, “Classical Analogues—Eastern and Western—of Sir Gawain”, in Sir Gawain and the Classical Tradition: Essays on…. From the entry amicide

Meaning of wherever

  1. adverb Where ever; an emphatic form of where.
  2. adverb In, at or to any place that one likes or chooses.
  3. adverb The place (no matter where) in, at or to which.

Full definition of wherever

Questions about wherever in a sentence

How do you use wherever in a sentence?
Wherever is used as an adverb and conjunction. For example: “Wherever have you been all my life?”
What is a short sentence with wherever?
“Add quotations wherever they are needed.”
What does wherever mean?
Wherever means where ever; an emphatic form of where.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wherever (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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