From

Definitions of "from"

• preposition
• Used to indicate a specified place or time as a starting point. preposition
• Used to indicate a specified point as the first of two limits. preposition
• preposition
• Used to indicate a source, cause, agent, or instrument. preposition
• Used to indicate constituent material or materials. preposition
• Used to indicate separation, removal, or exclusion. preposition
• Used to indicate differentiation. preposition
• Because of. preposition
• (from away) Not native to a state or locality. idiom
• Out of the limits, locality, or presence of, or connection with: expressing departure or point of departure, separation, discrimination, removal, or distance in space, time, condition, etc.
• [Sometimes used absolutely, in the sense of distant, absent, or coming from: as, a visitor from the city.
• As regards time, or succession in a series or in logical connection: noting the point of departure or reckoning: as, he was studious from his childhood; from that time onward.
• As regards idea, aim, or purpose: as, such a result was far from my intention; this is aside from our object.
• As regards state, condition, or effect: as, I am far from believing it; he is far from rich (that is, from being rich); he is a long way from being an atheist.
• As regards direction: away from.
• As regards point of view: out of; off.
• Out of: expressing derivation, withdrawal, or abstraction.
• As regards occupation, relation, or situation: as, to retire from office or from business; to return from a journey; to withdraw from society.

The word "from" in example sentences

I think an important fact is missing from all this discussion: who, exactly, did Human Rights Watch raise money *from* in Saudi Arabia?. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Human Rights Watch Goes to Saudi Arabia, UPDATE:]

The other works of Ammonius which survive are all derived, directly or indirectly, from his lectures, taken down by his students and hence mostly described as being ˜from the voice (apo tês phônês, or: the lectures [skholôn]) of Ammonius '.. [The Garbage House]

The problem with the terminology you use is that it relates to “laws” that only pertain to this universe; from the perspective of this Universe there was, indeed, “nothing” as you use the term before it, but that does not preclude that the universe arose * from* nothing, just nothing that relates to * this* universe.. [Chatting Theology with Robert Novak]

It was here I met my old friend Zanjirwale Bawa from Indore, he had 50 kg bracelets on his legs and had walked up the mountains a distance of 7 km..from the foothills of Malangad and 16 km from KalyanStation to the foothills.. [2008 March 04 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1]

It was here I met my old friend Zanjirwale Bawa from Indore, he had 50 kg bracelets on his legs and had walked up the mountains a distance of 7 km..from the foothills of Malangad and 16 km from KalyanStation to the foothills.. [Possession at the Dargahs « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1]

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Her blonde hair, her violet eyes, her beauty came not from the Stamarkos family, but from… someone else.. [Command Decision]

My God, it grieves me greatly that you are not known, that in this savage wilderness all have not been converted to you, that sin has not been driven from it.~from Saints of the Roman Calendar by Enzo Lodi. [Sts. Isaac Jogues and John de Brebeuf, priests and martyrs and companions, martyrs]

I'm not sure where my friend Paul forwarded this from - it's probably up on Defamer or The Superficial or something - but look who I might be borrowing a cup of sugar from* in the future.... [Won't you be my neighbor?]

I'm not sure where my friend Paul forwarded this from - it's probably up on Defamer or The Superficial or something - but look who I might be borrowing a cup of sugar from* in the future.... [Archive 2005-11-01]

His fiction appears in markets worldwide, and he is co-editor of the _Polyphony _anthology series from Wheatland Press, as well as _All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories _from All-Star Stories and Wheatland Press.. [Asimov's Science Fiction]

The monsters on the sea bed -- those flying behemoths that had defended Homeport from the demons 'attack, that had battled in a sky dark with wings and flesh, with blood falling like rain -- were a _part_ of her, created _from_ her.. [Asimov's Science Fiction]

These are the genuine article, tales pulled from the wood pulp pages of _The Black Mask _from the 1930s.. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

These are the genuine article, tales pulled from the wood pulp pages of _The Black Mask _from the 1930s.. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

"Sorry, I was coming from --" She stopped herself, having almost said _from my salon.. [Body Wave]

_A sketch from the model or drawing, relating to such portion of a machine as the Claim covers, from_ $1 _upward, but usually at the price above-named_.. [Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.]