Used in a Sentence

whereupon

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for whereupon.

Editorial note

Ancient battles usually lasted one day and continued till one side broke, whereupon a rout ensued.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

upon which

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of whereupon gathered in one view.

adverb

upon which

adverb

closely following and in consequence of which

adverb

in consequence of which

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for whereupon.

adverb

upon which

adverb

closely following and in consequence of which

adverb

in consequence of which

Example sentences

1

Ancient battles usually lasted one day and continued till one side broke, whereupon a rout ensued.

2

And this is regarding an easement whereupon there is a well-established thicket, not a road.

3

See, the painter got to paint it and sell it, presumably to a private individual, whereupon it was not seen for decades.

4

Finally one of them, exasperated, put his elbow on top of the laser cabinet with a deep sigh, whereupon the laser promptly started working.

5

The nuclear tests increased that by multiple orders of magnitude, ejecting hundreds of kilograms into the stratosphere, whereupon it promptly precipitated back out into the earth's oceans.

6

The Cisco website even detected that I ran linux and offered the linux client for download, whereupon it dutifully pushed the Windows client...

7

It ended with a special law that granted them asylum -- whereupon most of them continued to inflict crimes upon the natives and so did many of their children.

8

A robotaxi can take you to the local robobus hub, which drives you to the local robotrain point, whereupon a Just In Time (un)scheduled train will leave, as all journeys can be coordinated.

9

You quickly realize that the only way you can stop the train is to push the big guy standing next to you off the footbridge, whereupon his massive body will stop the train (yes, I know, but just go with it).

10

Failure seems to be quite highly correlated with trying to save a buck by getting non-top-tier drives (whereupon it's me, or someone like me, picking up the pieces when I could be writing code.

11

Every once in a while, I would read about an interesting Firefox add-on, dig into the Options menu, and find out Opera had the feature all along, whereupon I would drag it onto the UI.

12

$15k is serious business to a middle class household, and we would expect that purchase to last us at least another 5-8 years, whereupon we can pawn it off on a kid as their starter vehicle.

Quote examples

1

For instance: some dark pool controversy involves big pools persuading big investors to execute trades on their pools, whereupon they're "victimized" by HFTs and other aggressive traders.

2

I've been presented with this new captcha about a dozen times, and "failed" it every single time, whereupon it falls back to the traditional squiggly text.

3

Make it stop please." VMWare then has two choices: either it says "but we have permission, a license to do so" whereupon it needs to obey the terms said license, or it needs to immediately cease distributing Christoph's copyrighted work.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use whereupon in a sentence?

Ancient battles usually lasted one day and continued till one side broke, whereupon a rout ensued.

What does whereupon mean?

upon which

What part of speech is whereupon?

whereupon is commonly used as adverb.