Betty is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Betty meaning
- A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open; a jimmy.
- A picklock, skeleton key; a tool for opening locks.
- A man who performs tasks that traditionally belong to a woman; (originally) an effeminate or gay man.
Using Betty
- The main meaning on this page is: A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open; a jimmy. | A picklock, skeleton key; a tool for opening locks. | A man who performs tasks that traditionally belong to a woman; (originally) an effeminate or gay man.
- In the example corpus, betty often appears in combinations such as: and betty, betty and, of betty.
Context around Betty
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 7 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Betty
- In this selection, "betty" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, dog, baroness, speaker, boothroyd, ford and johnson stand out and add context to how "betty" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1982 with betty ford the and 8 shares betty owns 8. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "betty" sits close to words such as arrow, assad and bedrooms, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with betty
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
At Betty's Mrs. Chipping comes to speak with Alice and Betty. (12 words)
A celebration of Betty's life will be held at Carlisle Crematorium on Friday 27th October at 11:00am. (19 words)
I had a blond girlfriend named Betty when I was twelve who (in my mind) looked like the comic book Betty. (21 words)
Betty obviously tries to make this about her and how she’s scared to be in her house with Chic (Betty, leave), but this all gets interrupted by a crash that turns out to be the sound of Nana Rose falling down the stairs. (44 words)
He christened his parrot Boris and his tortoise Maggie after the former Tory prime ministers, and owns a cat called Attlee after the Labour PM and a Patterdale terrier called Betty, in honour of old Labour comrade and late speaker, Betty Boothroyd. (42 words)
Betty passed away in 2004, with Jo and Warren taking over the business three years ago from Betty’s son Scott, who Betty took out of school in his day to help meet the demands of the business. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Betty passed away in 2004, with Jo and Warren taking over the business three years ago from Betty’s son Scott, who Betty took out of school in his day to help meet the demands of the business.
Animal-loving Sir Lindsay has a number of pets, including Maggie the tortoise – who is “not for turning” – and a dog, Betty, named after his late predecessor, Baroness Betty Boothroyd.
He christened his parrot Boris and his tortoise Maggie after the former Tory prime ministers, and owns a cat called Attlee after the Labour PM and a Patterdale terrier called Betty, in honour of old Labour comrade and late speaker, Betty Boothroyd.
I had a blond girlfriend named Betty when I was twelve who (in my mind) looked like the comic book Betty.
At Betty's Mrs. Chipping comes to speak with Alice and Betty.
The Betty Ford Center was established in 1982, with Betty Ford—"the First Lady of Recovery"—bringing unprecedented visibility to the problem of drug addiction and the promise of treatment and recovery.
Survivors include his brother Steve McCandless (Betty); stepmother Betty Thompson McCandless; stepsister Cindy M. Stovall (Danny) and aunt Mary Boles Deaten; and several nephews and nieces.
Betty Fifield, of Betty's Kitchen, will have comfort food and Steve Allman, of Canterbury Aleworks, will offer a variety of seasonal beers to purchase.
Betty obviously tries to make this about her and how she’s scared to be in her house with Chic (Betty, leave), but this all gets interrupted by a crash that turns out to be the sound of Nana Rose falling down the stairs.
Betty says she was ‘with him all the time at the studio’; while actor Anderson Nelsson confirmed ‘Bruce was engrossed with Betty’.
Josie Hammer with JenRuss Freelance will be sharing information on crowdfunding and Betty Johnson, of Betty Johnson & Associates, and Nancy Wolff, of the Harvey Nonprofit Development, will share on capital campaigns.
Alex owns 8 shares, Betty owns 8 shares, and Carla owns 7. Alex and Betty would share the majority and minority bonuses, and Carla would get no bonus.
An example of this is the song Betty Botter ( About this sound listen ( help · info ) ): Betty Botter bought a bit of butter.
Betty's acting ability prompts Ruth Perlmutter to speculate if Betty is acting the role of Diane in either a dream or a parody of a movie that ultimately turns against her.
If instead Betty and Carla both owned 7 shares, then Alex would keep the majority bonus for herself, while Betty and Carla would split the minority bonus.
Immediately they return to Betty's aunt's apartment where Rita dons a blonde wig—ostensibly to disguise herself—but making her look remarkably like Betty.
Rita is the damsel in distress and she's in absolute need of Betty, and Betty controls her as if she were a doll.
She is considered to be the reality of the too-good-to-be-true Betty, or a later version of Betty after living too long in Hollywood.
According to Dr. Betty Raman of the University of Oxford, one of the study’s principal scientists, those with extended Covid symptoms are more likely to have suffered organ damage.
A celebration of Betty's life will be held at Carlisle Crematorium on Friday 27th October at 11:00am.
Common combinations with betty
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and betty 18×
- betty and 16×
- of betty 9×
- the betty 8×
- betty is 7×
- betty boothroyd 5×
- betty who 5×
- betty was 5×
- that betty 5×
- betty in 4×