How do you use the word "where" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "where": I didn't know where it came from. Where is the problem?

Where Meaning

/ˈwɛə/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

advIn, at or to what place.

advIn what situation.

Sentence Examples

I didn't know where it came from.

Where is the problem?

I got to the stage where I wasn't coping any more.

CEFR Practice Quiz

This is the beautiful park ____ we had our picnic last Sunday.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Do you know exactly ____ the new library is located in the city center near the big and old clock today?

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷís Proto-Germanic *hwaz Proto-Indo-European *-r Proto-Germanic *-r Proto-Germanic *hwar Proto-West Germanic *hwār Old English hwǣr Middle English wher English where From Middle English wher, from Old English hwǣr (“where”, literally “at what place”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwār, from Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- (interrogative pronoun).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal." — 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:

"Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him." — 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 122:

"And flight and die is death destroying death; Where fearing dying pays death servile breath." — 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

"Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet." — 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

"Finding the nymph a sleepe in secret wheare" — 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 19:

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