The word “which” is a pronoun and determiner used to introduce relative clauses or ask questions about choices. Writers use it to provide clarification, contrast options, and add descriptive detail. The examples below are drawn from authentic works to show how “which” appears in real writing.
Real Sentences for Which
Left alone in the study, I opened the safe and withdrew the contents of the drawer in which he had told me I would find my instructions.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
27 words, 136 characters
The watchman related the few details connected with the finding of the body, which he said had been still warm when he came upon it.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
25 words, 133 characters
I placed the slip of paper on the back of a book, and, collecting the fragments of the phosphorus matches which I had brought from the barrel, laid them together upon the paper.
Source: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
33 words, 177 characters
I appear today as I did forty years and more ago, and yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever; that some day I shall die the real death from which there is no resurrection.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
37 words, 178 characters
A strange feature about the tomb, where his body still lies, is that the massive door is equipped with a single, huge gold-plated spring lock which can be opened only from the inside.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
33 words, 183 characters
She was as equipped in this particular as Strether was the reverse, and it made an opposition between them which he might well have shrunk from submitting to if he had fully suspected it.
Source: The Ambassadors by Henry James
34 words, 187 characters
His further instructions related to this manuscript which I was to retain sealed and unread, just as I found it, for eleven years; nor was I to divulge its contents until twenty-one years after his death.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
36 words, 204 characters
He told us that he had been prospecting and mining in Arizona part of the time since the war; and that he had been very successful was evidenced by the unlimited amount of money with which he was supplied.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
39 words, 205 characters
He directed that I remove his body to Virginia without embalming, and that he be laid in an open coffin within a tomb which he previously had had constructed and which, as I later learned, was well ventilated.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
38 words, 210 characters
On March 3, 1866, Powell and I packed his provisions on two of our burros, and bidding me goodbye he mounted his horse, and started down the mountainside toward the valley, across which led the first stage of his journey.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
40 words, 221 characters
He seemed always to be laughing; and he entered into the sports of the children with the same hearty good fellowship he displayed toward those pastimes in which the men and women of his own age indulged; or he would sit for an hour at a time entertaining my old grandmother with stories of his strange, wild life in all parts of the world.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
64 words, 339 characters
Upon my return to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure in the South Seas and elsewhere, of which an account is given in the following pages, accident threw me into the society of several gentlemen in Richmond, VA, who felt deep interest in all matters relating to the regions I had visited, and who were constantly urging it upon me, as a duty, to give my narrative to the public.
Source: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
77 words, 423 characters
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