6 sentences with 'hence'
Example sentences and phrases with the word hence and other words derived from it.
• « The professors were all members of the clergy, "professing" religion, hence the term "professor". »
• « Amerigo Vespucci coined the phrase "New World" first, hence "America" rather than "Columbia" - Vespucci's accounts were printed first. He was also a relentless self-promoter, whereas Columbus did not attempt to publicise his discoveries with the same approach. »
• « Luther, after all, had not set out to divide the church, but to reform it - hence the term "reformation". »
• « According to this theory, disease was the result of an overabundance of one humour and a lack of another, hence the centuries-old practice of bleeding someone who was ill in the hope of reducing the "excess" blood. »
• « The church was partly made of wooden crates used to transport gunpowder for the mine, hence the locals called it the "powder magazine church". »
• « "El Niño" is a disturbance in the form of an ocean current off the coast of Peru that occurs around Christmas - hence its name, inspired by the Christ Child - with a periodicity of about three to eight years. »