from
showing where something starts, or who sent it
How often you will meet it
Rank 35 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 867,136 times across 155,168 chapters — 0.412% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 100 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
preposition
- showing where something starts, or who sent it
from in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Three years later the boy graduated from the Boston "Tech."
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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It may be obtained from the publishers for the price of $1.00, postpaid.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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He only said on returning, "I knew, Christian, from the first, that you would be a good mother to my children."
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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Each rose from a little log cabin clinging to the side of a little hollow at the head of a little creek.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1