Sentence examples of "originate" in English

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The custom originated in China. Cette tradition est née en Chine.
I must know where these quotations originate. Je dois savoir d'où viennent ces citations.
The agonies of the machine age do not originate from the machines as such. Les souffrances de l'âge de la mécanisation ne prennent pas leur origine dans les machines elles-mêmes.
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