Alaska is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Alaska meaning
- A state of the United States, formerly a territory. Capital: Juneau. Largest city: Anchorage. Postal code: AK.
- A peninsula in southwest Alaska, United States, in full the Alaska Peninsula.
- Several places in the United States, named for the state or territory.
Synonyms of Alaska
Alaska vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Alaska
- The main meaning on this page is: A state of the United States, formerly a territory. Capital: Juneau. Largest city: Anchorage. Postal code: AK. | A peninsula in southwest Alaska, United States, in full the Alaska Peninsula. | Several places in the United States, named for the state or territory.
- Useful related words include: last frontier, ak, american state.
- Possible Dutch translations are: alaska.
- In the example corpus, alaska often appears in combinations such as: the alaska, of alaska, in alaska.
Context around Alaska
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 7 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Alaska
- In this selection, "alaska" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rural, guard, loss, native, national and federation stand out and add context to how "alaska" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include university of alaska anchorage, 26 meaning alaska won 54, anchorage alaska, juneau alaska and alaska airlines. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "alaska" sits close to words such as approaches, completion and quarantine, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with alaska
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Note: Alaska Public Media receives funding from the Alaska Mental Health Trust. (12 words)
He moved to Alaska to play hockey for the University of Alaska Anchorage. (13 words)
Bjorn Dihle is Alaska magazine's gear editor and a lifelong resident of southeast Alaska. (15 words)
And so the idea that we might actually need natural gas from outside of Alaska to continue heating our homes and generating our power is actually very offensive to a lot of Alaskans, and to a lot of Alaska policymakers. (40 words)
By state statute, the Alaska Organized Militia, which encompasses the Alaska National Guard, Alaska Naval Militia and the Alaska State Defense Force, can be called into state active duty to assist with state disasters or other emergencies. (37 words)
The 40-year-old Alabama native in 2004 moved to Alaska, where he is a carpenter and appears on the National Geographic reality TV show “Life Below Zero,” about people who live in rural Alaska. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
By state statute, the Alaska Organized Militia, which encompasses the Alaska National Guard, Alaska Naval Militia and the Alaska State Defense Force, can be called into state active duty to assist with state disasters or other emergencies.
He previously served in the Alaska National Guard and has been involved in many leadership roles in Alaska Native organizations, including co-chair of the Alaska Federation of Natives.
On this Alaska Insight, host Lori Townsend is joined by Alaska Public Media reporters Liz Ruskin and Eric Stone to discuss the results and implications of Alaska’s 2024 election.
Despite the loss, Alaska out-did the Huskies in face-off wins with Alaska winning 30 face-offs while St. Cloud won 26, meaning Alaska won 54 percent of the face-offs.
Eleven individuals were recognized during the 2018 Alaska Federation of Natives convention in Anchorage, for their contributions to the Alaska Native community and rural Alaska.
The term Alaska Native has important legal usage in Alaska and the rest of the United States as a result of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971.
The Yupik comprise speakers of four distinct Yupik languages: one used in the Russian Far East and the others among people of Western Alaska, Southcentral Alaska and along the Gulf of Alaska coast.
A graph comparing Alaska general and prison populations’ proportions of American Indian or Alaska Native (AI/AN) inmates to other states.
Alaska Chief Justice Daniel Winfree receives applause from state lawmakers after finishing the annual State of the Judiciary address to the Alaska Legislature on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023.
And so the idea that we might actually need natural gas from outside of Alaska to continue heating our homes and generating our power is actually very offensive to a lot of Alaskans, and to a lot of Alaska policymakers.
Bjorn Dihle is Alaska magazine's gear editor and a lifelong resident of southeast Alaska.
Both the Alaska Department of Corrections and Alaska State Troopers declined to comment other than what was stated in the court documents.
Central Alaskan Yup’ik is the largest of the Alaska Native languages, with about 10,000 speakers in 68 villages across southwest Alaska.
ConocoPhillips Alaska, Alaska’s largest oil producer, is among the companies that have expressed interest in Mr. Dunleavy’s carbon plan but said it is too early to make any commitments.
He moved to Alaska to play hockey for the University of Alaska Anchorage.
None of the major U.S. airlines offer cash for cancellations or long delays, only Alaska Airlines offers frequent-flyer miles, and only Alaska and JetBlue provide travel credits, according to the dashboard.
Note: Alaska Public Media receives funding from the Alaska Mental Health Trust.
The 40-year-old Alabama native in 2004 moved to Alaska, where he is a carpenter and appears on the National Geographic reality TV show “Life Below Zero,” about people who live in rural Alaska.
The Alaska Arctic Observatory and Knowledge Hub is comprised of local Iñupiaq observers from Kotzebue to Kaktovik who work with University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers to document how the Arctic is changing.
The information was presented by Troy Payne, Alaska Justice Information Center at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Phrases with alaska
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with alaska
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the alaska 63×
- of alaska 38×
- in alaska 29×
- alaska native 22×
- alaska ap 21×
- anchorage alaska 16×
- juneau alaska 14×
- to alaska 14×
- alaska and 14×
- alaska state 12×