Wondering how to use Autumn in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as fall or season.
Autumn meaning
- Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves, and temperatures and daylight hours decrease; typically regarded as spanning the months of September, October, and November in the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere.
- The time period when someone or something is past its prime.
- A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.
Using Autumn
- The main meaning on this page is: Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves, and temperatures and daylight hours decrease; typically regarded as spanning the months of September, October, and November in the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere. | The time period when someone or something is past its prime. | A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.
- Useful related words include: fall, season, time of year.
- In the example corpus, autumn often appears in combinations such as: the autumn, this autumn, last autumn.
Context around Autumn
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Autumn
- In this selection, "autumn" 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, northern, mid, late, equinox, crocus and flooding stand out and add context to how "autumn" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include the northern autumn equinox in and 100 last autumn. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "autumn" sits close to words such as cameron, charter and odd, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with autumn
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Nothing hints of autumn like turnips from the late autumn garden. (11 words)
Gabriel García Márquez’s The Autumn of the Patriarch – a book I reread every autumn. (15 words)
The autumn equinox marks the start of autumn as the night becomes longer than the day. (16 words)
The rainy seasons are intermediate, occurring in spring and in autumn; autumn especially can produce torrential rains caused by the accumulation during the summer of heat in nearby large bodies of water, and the arrival of polar air masses. (39 words)
While Earth is heading for the northern autumn equinox in September, Saturn is heading for the northern autumn equinox in 2025, which means the north poles of both planets are heading for extended periods of polar winter. (37 words)
About 140,000 square km of land, roughly the size of New York state, have already burned, and government officials project the fire season could stretch into autumn due to widespread drought-like conditions in Canada. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Autumn crocus Some species, known as "autumn crocus", flower in late summer and autumn, often before their leaves appear.
Gabriel García Márquez’s The Autumn of the Patriarch – a book I reread every autumn.
Nothing hints of autumn like turnips from the late autumn garden.
The four-track project is the third installment in her “seasons” series, following “Autumn in Winter” and “Autumn in Spring”.
While Earth is heading for the northern autumn equinox in September, Saturn is heading for the northern autumn equinox in 2025, which means the north poles of both planets are heading for extended periods of polar winter.
In autumn, flooding is less frequent, but I'd say there is some form of autumn flooding every other year.
Palmer added that the measures announced in the Autumn Budget "Adding to this uncertainty, the measures announced in the Autumn Budget.
About 5,500 students withdrew from courses across the UK this autumn, compared with 6,100 last autumn.
Autumn Nations Cup: Ireland v Wales to kick-off eight-team tournamentA Friday night match between Ireland and Wales in Dublin will kick off the eight-team Autumn Nations Cup on 13 November.
However, I saw a lot of really vivid autumn colors last weekend, and it did seem a tiny bit cooler, so we'll celebrate autumn any way we can this year.
Amur and Tatarian maples, smaller in stature than Autumn Blaze, are brilliantly colored low-headed screening or feature trees that are well adapted to areas where Autumn Blaze struggles.
Tesmer said Autumn Trace Communities started looking into building in Madison after receiving several telephone calls from residents saying the city needed a facility like Autumn Trace.
The autumn equinox marks the start of autumn as the night becomes longer than the day.
Mid-Autumn Festival main The Mid-Autumn Festival or "August Moon Festival" is an annual celebration that occurs sometime between August to October, depending on the lunar calendar and local customs.
The events in the autumn of 1977 are frequently referred to as Der Deutsche Herbst ("German Autumn").
The rainy seasons are intermediate, occurring in spring and in autumn; autumn especially can produce torrential rains caused by the accumulation during the summer of heat in nearby large bodies of water, and the arrival of polar air masses.
A £7million scheme to protect the River Isle, near Ilminster, by removing chemicals from wastewater, is closing in on completion this autumn.
About 12 protesters were outside the Civil Justice Centre in Cardiff on Thursday for the hearing - a decision due in the autumn.
About 140,000 square km of land, roughly the size of New York state, have already burned, and government officials project the fire season could stretch into autumn due to widespread drought-like conditions in Canada.
About 50 Tories are lining up to demand that chancellor Jeremy Hunt abolishes it in his Autumn Statement later this year.
Common combinations with autumn
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the autumn 43×
- this autumn 17×
- last autumn 16×
- autumn statement 14×
- in autumn 13×
- autumn and 12×
- of autumn 11×
- autumn of 10×
- autumn is 8×
- and autumn 5×