Beowulf is an English word with synonyms like character. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Beowulf in a sentence
Beowulf meaning
- A renowned Old English alliterative poem, preserved in a single manuscript within the Nowell Codex, composed sometime between 975 and 1025 AD.
- An Anglo-Saxon personal name, usually with reference to the hero of the poem, or to the poem itself.
Synonyms of Beowulf
Using Beowulf
- The main meaning on this page is: A renowned Old English alliterative poem, preserved in a single manuscript within the Nowell Codex, composed sometime between 975 and 1025 AD. | An Anglo-Saxon personal name, usually with reference to the hero of the poem, or to the poem itself.
- Useful related words include: fictional character, fictitious character, character.
- In the example corpus, beowulf often appears in combinations such as: beowulf and, of beowulf, beowulf in.
Context around Beowulf
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Beowulf
- In this selection, "beowulf" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hall, 789, sees, boritt, 675 and 757 stand out and add context to how "beowulf" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include beowulf and his and 766 789 beowulf s retainers. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "beowulf" sits close to words such as abdulaziz, acacia and afdb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with beowulf
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Beowulf, 757-765 Grendel and Beowulf battle each other violently. (10 words)
A frightful encounter offered Beowulf an opportunity to show bravery. (10 words)
The old monks summon the Dovahkiin for a quest, just like Hrothgar calling upon Beowulf. (15 words)
With his Trait, Last Wyrm, Beowulf is able to enhance the next Power, Special, or Defense he uses, and each choice has its own arguments for being the best choice in terms of single-target, group, or just general damage. (40 words)
What does well is Beowulf Boritt’s set/projection designs and Ken Billington’s lighting, where almost at the end of the show there is a section that feels pulled from Sunday In The Park With George. (37 words)
This exhaustive analysis is in itself sufficient to prove that Beowulf was composed orally."sfn Examination of Beowulf and other Old English literature for evidence of oral-formulaic composition has met with mixed response. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Beowulf, 675-687 When Grendel enters the hall, Beowulf, who has been feigning sleep, leaps up to clench Grendel's hand.
Beowulf, 757-765 Grendel and Beowulf battle each other violently.
Beowulf, 766-789 Beowulf's retainers draw their swords and rush to his aid, but their blades cannot pierce Grendel's skin.
Beowulf and his warriors come to fight the dragon, but Beowulf tells his men that he will fight the dragon alone and that they should wait on the barrow.
Hroðgar sees Beowulf's offer as a son's gratitude for what Hroðgar had done for Beowulf's father.
One of his men, however, Wiglaf, who finds great distress in seeing Beowulf's plight, comes to Beowulf's aid.
This exhaustive analysis is in itself sufficient to prove that Beowulf was composed orally."sfn Examination of Beowulf and other Old English literature for evidence of oral-formulaic composition has met with mixed response.
Beowulf and his men are tasked with slaying Grendel and freeing the village from his terror.
The old monks summon the Dovahkiin for a quest, just like Hrothgar calling upon Beowulf.
What does well is Beowulf Boritt’s set/projection designs and Ken Billington’s lighting, where almost at the end of the show there is a section that feels pulled from Sunday In The Park With George.
With his Trait, Last Wyrm, Beowulf is able to enhance the next Power, Special, or Defense he uses, and each choice has its own arguments for being the best choice in terms of single-target, group, or just general damage.
A frightful encounter offered Beowulf an opportunity to show bravery.
It serves Beowulf Finn's Hall Porter, a house beer by Shiny, and 7 changing beers.
At Loch Ness, he stands in their rickety rowboat and, waving his cane, recites the “Song of Creation” from “Beowulf,” capsizing the boat and dumping himself and Parini in the water.
His notable work is also on the movie adaptation of Beowulf in 2007, on which he worked along with Roger Avery.
The scenic design by Beowulf Boritt, basically the backstage area of a theater, works quite well, offering a combination of fantasy and reality, which perfectly matches Birbiglia’s tale.
After Beowulf's death, he is ritually burned on a great pyre in Geatland while his people wail and mourn him.
After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated.
Andreas is 1,722 lines long and is the closest of the surviving Old English poems to Beowulf in style and tone.
Beowulf, a young warrior from Geatland, hears of Hrothgar's troubles and with his king's permission leaves his homeland to assist Hrothgar.
Common combinations with beowulf
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- beowulf and 11×
- of beowulf 8×
- beowulf in 5×
- in beowulf 5×
- beowulf was 3×
- beowulf is 3×
- to beowulf 3×
- beowulf who 2×
- that beowulf 2×
- beowulf boritt 2×