On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Ahab. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as king or rex and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Ahab in a sentence
Ahab meaning
- A king of Israel, mentioned in the Bible.
- A male given name from Hebrew, very rarely used.
Using Ahab
- The main meaning on this page is: A king of Israel, mentioned in the Bible. | A male given name from Hebrew, very rarely used.
- Useful related words include: king, male monarch, rex.
- In the example corpus, ahab often appears in combinations such as: captain ahab, ahab and, of ahab.
Context around Ahab
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 5 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ahab
- In this selection, "ahab" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, captain, ishmael, begs, claimed, name and wished stand out and add context to how "ahab" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include again between ahab and an and ahab claimed al. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ahab" sits close to words such as aac, abdallah and abdication, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ahab
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Guy Rhys plays Captain Ahab. (5 words)
There could be something of Ahab about you on bad days. (11 words)
What Ahab doesn't know is that someone is on to him. (12 words)
The Saudi court has accepted more than US$7 billion in claims from creditors against the Algosaibi family's conglomerate AHAB, and about US$6.5 billion against tycoon Maan al-Sanea and his company Saad Group, two court documents seen by Reuters showed. (44 words)
For him, this task is akin to Captain Ahab chasing Moby Dick, so it's not too surprising that he literally blows the country club sky high all in attempt to catch his white whale. (35 words)
Milder (1988), 434 Bryant and Springer find that the book is structured around the two consciousnesses of Ahab and Ishmael, with Ahab as a force of linearity and Ishmael a force of digression. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
A whale has eaten Captain Ahab’s leg; and Ahab has the ship carpenter fashion a prosthesis out of a whalebone.
AHAB claimed Al-Sanea negotiated huge amounts of unsecured loans on the strength of the AHAB name, which went into default amidst the 2008 financial crisis.
Moreover, the 16 sets of bank facility documents on which AHAB’s manipulation case rested could not bear the weight of inference that AHAB wished to place upon them.
Ahab's purpose exercises a mysterious spell on Ishmael: "Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine".
Milder (1988), 434 Bryant and Springer find that the book is structured around the two consciousnesses of Ahab and Ishmael, with Ahab as a force of linearity and Ishmael a force of digression.
Starbuck begs Ahab to desist, but Ahab vows to slay the white whale, even if he would have to dive through the globe itself to get his revenge.
Starbuck tries to persuade Ahab to return to Nantucket to meet both their families, but Ahab simply crosses the deck and stands near Fedallah.
The fourth is when Elijah confronts Ahab over Ahab's and Jezebel's execution of Naboth and usurpation of the latter's ancestral vineyard (1 Kings 21,1-16).
The third is again between Ahab and an unnamed prophet who condemns Ahab for his actions in a battle that had just taken place (1 Kings 20:34-43).
Just as Captain Ahab was obsessed with Moby Dick, the island of Grand Manan has its own whale of myth and legend.
What Ahab doesn't know is that someone is on to him.
Guy Rhys plays Captain Ahab.
Herman Melville named Captain Ahab’s whaling ship “the Pequod” as a way to acknowledge the once powerful tribe.
Melville’s narrator, Ishmael, and his sidekick, Queequeg, are served chowder in Mrs. Hussey’s inn before they sail off on the Pequod with Captain Ahab.
There could be something of Ahab about you on bad days.
For him, this task is akin to Captain Ahab chasing Moby Dick, so it's not too surprising that he literally blows the country club sky high all in attempt to catch his white whale.
In August 1963 the Western Hills Plaza featured “Ahab the Arab,” buried for more than a week in a coffin filled with snakes.
The fourth season begins with an episode themed around literary cakes, meaning we get to watch three bakers attempt to recreate Captain Ahab in chocolate form.
The Saudi court has accepted more than US$7 billion in claims from creditors against the Algosaibi family's conglomerate AHAB, and about US$6.5 billion against tycoon Maan al-Sanea and his company Saad Group, two court documents seen by Reuters showed.
Being set in New England, the film recalls Herman Melville’s novel “Moby Dick” and its New England ties, as Captain Ahab sets sail off from New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Common combinations with ahab
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- captain ahab 12×
- ahab and 12×
- of ahab 6×
- and ahab 5×
- ahab to 4×
- but ahab 3×
- ahab was 3×
- to ahab 3×
- ahab has 2×
- that ahab 2×