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How To Use provenance In A Sentence

• It should also be noted that there are no contact-period materials from the Johnson site and that the only historic materials recovered date to the nineteenth century and did not occur in the provenances associated with the figurines.
• Moreover, I can't think of any other 'minority' of which this is remotely true, unless it were to be the other minority from which I can claim descent: people of British or Anglophile provenance. Christopher Hitchens: Reinstate Rick Sanchez!
• The provenance of the paintings is unknown.
• The breakfront is nearly identical to a desk of about 1805 in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, that has a provenance in the Crown-insheld family of that city.
• Whatever the historical provenance of the Cumberland sausage, it soon became a well established feature on the household menu in Cumbria.
• In addition, minute fragments of bone were sent for carbon-14 testing by experts unaware of their provenance. Homily of Papal Vespers on 28 June 2009
• Neither dates nor provenances can convincingly explain the development of these distinct artistic languages within the Jewish art of the Iberian Peninsula.
• [A] ccepting at face value documents without a verifiable provenance that come from the hand of a known partisan zealot is not typical journalistic behavior. Election 2004
• False provenances and certificates of authenticity are favorite tools of cheats and should never be accepted blindly.
• There's no proof about the provenance of the painting .