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from
[ fruhm, from; unstressed fruhm ]
preposition
- (used to specify a starting point in spatial movement):
a train running west from Chicago.
- (used to specify a starting point in an expression of limits):
The number of stores will be increased from 25 to 30.
- (used to express removal or separation, as in space, time, or order):
two miles from shore;
30 minutes from now;
from one page to the next.
- (used to express discrimination or distinction):
to be excluded from membership;
to differ from one's father.
- (used to indicate source or origin):
to come from the Midwest;
to take a pencil from one's pocket.
- (used to indicate agent or instrumentality):
death from starvation.
- (used to indicate cause or reason):
From the evidence, he must be guilty.
from
/ frəm; frɒm /
preposition
- used to indicate the original location, situation, etc
from childhood to adulthood
from behind the bushes
from Paris to Rome
- in a period of time starting at
he lived from 1910 to 1970
- used to indicate the distance between two things or places
a hundred miles from here
- used to indicate a lower amount
from five to fifty pounds
- showing the model of
painted from life
- used with the gerund to mark prohibition, restraint, etc
nothing prevents him from leaving
- because of
exhausted from his walk
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Example Sentences
The bulk of the premiere actually put an unexpected spin on the ripped-from-the-headlines story.
But its title is a misnomer: The far-from-renegade Gay is a very good feminist.
Says my wife, returning from the shower be-robed, towel-turbaned, and still smelling faintly of not-made-from-concentrate.
But a new crop of famous-from-birth models are trying to make it on their own…and they deserve to be taken seriously.
Michael Jackson's back-from-the-dead moonwalk stunned viewers at the Billboard Awards.
They have a nodding-from-a-motor-acquaintance with it but I like a real handshake-friendship with it.
Once more we found ourselves in the far-from-delectable town of Cape François.
It was no good trying some tricky approach; his best bet was the straight-from-the-shoulder bit.
Now the fugitive-from-labor clause must be interpreted in part by the light of the Purpose of the Constitution.
And again came that scent of cigar smoke-from the old saturated leather.
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