Jasper Carrott

When the amalgam is delivered to your dentist in a special protective box, he has to take extreme caution when handling the stuff: with masks, gloves, gowns, goggles, all needed to protect him from danger. He then drills your teeth and rams the mixture into your cavities, whereupon it becomes miraculously, instantly safe!

English Comedian

Arthur Lewis

When I was seven, I had to stay home for several weeks because of some ailment, whereupon my father elected to teach me so that I should not fall behind. In fact, he taught me in three months as much as the school taught in two years, so, on returning to school, I was shifted from grade 4 to grade 6.

Charles Jencks

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.

American Architect

Ida Lupino

Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.

English Actress

Use 'whereupon' to indicate the next event in a sequence of actions.

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'Whereupon' can sound formal or old-fashioned, often used in literature or formal narratives.

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'Whereupon' suggests an immediate reaction or consequence to an action.

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 that the first big war of the twentieth century began with an act of terrorism. So Franz Ferdinand wasn't particularly well-liked by his uncle, the emperor Franz Joseph -- now that is a mustache! But even so, the assassination led Austria to issue an ultimatum to Serbia, whereupon Serbia accepted some, but not all, of Austria's demands, leading Austria to declare war against Serbia.

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 cattle crush and left in a dark room and it wasn't until a year later that an attempt was made to release Stoney from the mechanical device whereupon he fell injuring the other the other leg and he

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