Explore Acapulco through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like city or metropolis. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Acapulco in a sentence
Acapulco meaning
- A port city on the west coast of Guerrero, Mexico.
- A municipality whose municipal seat is the city of the same name.
Synonyms of Acapulco
Using Acapulco
- The main meaning on this page is: A port city on the west coast of Guerrero, Mexico. | A municipality whose municipal seat is the city of the same name.
- Useful related words include: acapulco de juarez, city, metropolis, urban center.
- In the example corpus, acapulco often appears in combinations such as: in acapulco, of acapulco, acapulco mexico.
Context around Acapulco
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 6 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Acapulco
- In this selection, "acapulco" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hit, closed, resort, mexico, early and head stand out and add context to how "acapulco" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include acapulco s nearly and acapulco shore season. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "acapulco" sits close to words such as abingdon, aborigines and abrahams, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with acapulco
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Divers searching sunken boats in Acapulco this month. (8 words)
Authorities closed Acapulco’s port, home to some 300 fishing boats. (11 words)
Most of the boats are damaged at the Acapulco Yacht Club. (11 words)
Hurricane Otis, which roared through Acapulco in the early hours of Oct. 25, was the most powerful storm on record to strike Mexico’s Pacific coast, killing dozens of people and wrecking thousands of homes in the city of nearly 900,000. (42 words)
Mexican officials raised the death toll to 39 on Saturday from Hurricane Otis, which struck the country's southern Pacific coast including the resort city of Acapulco early Wednesday as a powerful Category 5 storm. (35 words)
Arcos’ social media posts show the mayor in recent days had been supervising disaster relief efforts following the impact of Hurricane John last month, which caused severe flooding in beach resort Acapulco and surrounding towns. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Acapulco’s nearly one million residents were cut off and unable to communicate with the outside world, leaving the extend of the storm’s damage, including the number of those dead or missing, unknown.
And it hit Acapulco head-on, picking up intensity over warm offshore waters with stunning velocity — wind speeds increasing by 115 miles an hour during a 24-hour period.
Authorities closed Acapulco’s port, home to some 300 fishing boats.
A woman holds a bay next to some looted goods after Hurricane Otis ripped through Acapulco, Mexico, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023.
Debris litters a beach on Thursday, a day after Hurricane Otis ripped through Acapulco, Mexico, as a Category 5 storm.
Divers searching sunken boats in Acapulco this month.
He phoned 999 in the early hours of Friday, May 13 last year, after he had been thrown out of Acapulco night club in Halifax, when he was off duty and drinking with colleagues.
Hundreds of trucks from the government electricity company arrived in Acapulco early Wednesday, but seemed at a loss as to how to restore power.
Hurricane Otis, which roared through Acapulco in the early hours of Oct. 25, was the most powerful storm on record to strike Mexico’s Pacific coast, killing dozens of people and wrecking thousands of homes in the city of nearly 900,000.
La Quebrada is a 148-foot-high cliff on the shores of the Pacific in Acapulco.
Letitia Murphy said she began to worry when she lost contact with her ex-husband and father of her two children, 59-year-old Briton Neil Marshall, who was in Acapulco when Otis hit.
Meanwhile, Guerrero Governor Evelyn Salgado Pineda announced the establishment of a WhatsApp line to help people contact their families after communications went down in Acapulco on Wednesday.
Mexican officials raised the death toll to 39 on Saturday from Hurricane Otis, which struck the country's southern Pacific coast including the resort city of Acapulco early Wednesday as a powerful Category 5 storm.
Most of the boats are damaged at the Acapulco Yacht Club.
Nadal’s time in the top 10 was officially stamped with an expiry date on Thursday after Taylor Fritz advanced to the Acapulco semi-final.
The Pope concluded his appeal with a special prayer intention for those affected by Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, Mexico.
Acapulco Shore Season 1 is available to watch on Paramount Plus.
A fire has broken out in Acapulco not far away from the city's Mexican Open tennis venue.
Arcos’ social media posts show the mayor in recent days had been supervising disaster relief efforts following the impact of Hurricane John last month, which caused severe flooding in beach resort Acapulco and surrounding towns.
Drawing inspiration from the 2017 comedy film How to Be a Latin Lover, Acapulco is an American Spanish television series created by Austin Winsberg, Eduardo Cisneros, and Jason Shuman.
Common combinations with acapulco
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in acapulco 21×
- of acapulco 17×
- acapulco mexico 7×
- acapulco and 5×
- through acapulco 3×
- acapulco in 3×
- acapulco on 3×
- the acapulco 3×
- acapulco is 3×
- and acapulco 3×