Bering is an English word with synonyms like behring or navigator. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Bering meaning
An element of various place names in the geographical region between the northeastern extreme of Russia and the U.S. state of Alaska.
Using Bering
- The main meaning on this page is: An element of various place names in the geographical region between the northeastern extreme of Russia and the U.S. state of Alaska.
- Useful related words include: vitus bering, behring, vitus behring, navigator.
- In the example corpus, bering often appears in combinations such as: the bering, bering sea, bering strait.
Context around Bering
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bering
- In this selection, "bering" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, vitus, pedersen, key, sea, strait and straits stand out and add context to how "bering" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include across the bering strait completed and as the bering sea stopping. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bering" sits close to words such as aamir, abysmal and alderman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bering
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Firefighters departing Nome headed for Stebbins on a Bering Air plane. (11 words)
I got lost frequently, as I had problems keeping my Bering Strait. (12 words)
In late March, Bering Straits Native Corporation donated 100 cases of drinking water to the city. (16 words)
They encountered one extreme heat wave in their critical first summer when they were in the northern Bering Sea and then, when they entered their wintering grounds in the Gulf of Alaska, swam into the tail end of another extreme heat wave, he said. (44 words)
In 1889, tensions were high between the U.S. and Canada when the U.S. banned Canadians from engaging in the seal hunt in the Bering Sea as part of the ongoing Bering Sea Dispute between the U.S. and Britain. (41 words)
The two key figures who had been so useful to Bering in St. Petersburg back in the early 1730s (Saunders and Kirilov) were now dead, and there were occasional moves to either terminate the expedition or to replace Bering. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
The portrait most frequently attributed to Bering may possibly be the writer Vitus Pedersen Bering, who was Bering's uncle.
A portrait once believed to be of Vitus Bering (according to more recent data, it is likely his uncle's portrait) In 1991 a Russian-Danish expedition found Bering's burial site.
Comprehensive resource on the Bering Sea with viewable oceanographic, atmospheric, climatic, biological and fisheries data with ecosystem relevance, recent trends, essays on key Bering Sea issues, maps, photos, animals and more.
In 1889, tensions were high between the U.S. and Canada when the U.S. banned Canadians from engaging in the seal hunt in the Bering Sea as part of the ongoing Bering Sea Dispute between the U.S. and Britain.
In June and July 1989, a British expedition, Kayaks Across the Bering Strait, completed the first sea kayak crossing of the Bering Strait from Wales (Kiŋigin), Alaska, to Cape Dezhnev, Siberia.
The grave of Vitus Bering on Bering island With time now of the essence, the Okhotsk (a new construction) left for Bolsheretsk, arriving there in mid-September.
The two key figures who had been so useful to Bering in St. Petersburg back in the early 1730s (Saunders and Kirilov) were now dead, and there were occasional moves to either terminate the expedition or to replace Bering.
But Wallen, who previously worked on fishery enforcement in Alaska where she said she worked closely with Russian officials on issues in the Bering Strait, said, “I think issues like fisheries and the environment transcend geopolitical issues at times.
In late March, Bering Straits Native Corporation donated 100 cases of drinking water to the city.
It takes the sled dog teams over two mountain ranges, the frozen Yukon River and the treacherous Bering Sea ice en route to the finish line in Nome.
She used airline points to get her dog back to Gambell on a regional air carrier last week, a charter that was transporting athletes for the Bering Strait School District’s Native Youth Olympics tournament.
The Iditarod Trail Invitational, a bike, ski and foot race, travels from Knik Lake near Anchorage to the interior community of McGrath, continuing to the Bering Sea before reaching the trail’s conclusion in Nome.
The Nome-based corporation, Bering Straits Native Corp., also agreed to invest $2 million in Graphite One, in return for commitments related to jobs and scholarships for shareholders.
They encountered one extreme heat wave in their critical first summer when they were in the northern Bering Sea and then, when they entered their wintering grounds in the Gulf of Alaska, swam into the tail end of another extreme heat wave, he said.
Additionally, I worked with the conference committee to restore $1 million in funding in the operating budget for (Westward Region Fisheries Management) crab test fisheries research in the Bering Sea.
Firefighters departing Nome headed for Stebbins on a Bering Air plane.
I got lost frequently, as I had problems keeping my Bering Strait.
It’s not just a simple matter of doing the Shelikof survey earlier or moving the Bering Sea surveys north.
Longer, 18- or 19-day “Inside Passage, Bears, and Aleutian Islands” (also northbound or southbound) voyages venture as far north as the Bering Sea, stopping along the way in Dutch Harbor, St. Paul, and uninhabited St. Matthew Island.
The dangers of working the Bering Sea are well known - with trawlers by and large painting it as one of the coldest and most dangerous seas across the globe.
Common combinations with bering
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the bering 56×
- bering sea 44×
- bering strait 21×
- vitus bering 6×
- bering and 5×
- bering was 5×
- bering had 4×
- to bering 3×
- on bering 3×
- bering straits 3×