Birney is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Birney in a sentence
Birney meaning
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- A census-designated place in Rosebud County, Montana, United States.
Using Birney
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname from Scottish Gaelic. | A census-designated place in Rosebud County, Montana, United States.
- In the example corpus, birney often appears in combinations such as: birney and, of birney, james birney.
Context around Birney
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 3 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Birney
- In this selection, "birney" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 29.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, trevor, annie, artist, quick, bervar and himself stand out and add context to how "birney" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include advance of birney and berdan and annie birney and eoin. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "birney" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with birney
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
BIRNEY: (As J. Whitman) It rang a little inauthentic. (9 words)
Michael Walker planned to plead guilty to second-degree murder, his defense attorney Birney Bervar told The Associated Press. (19 words)
Fighting commenced against these relatively green troops, who were soon reinforced by the 1st Maryland Regiment and then David Birney's infantry division. (23 words)
The votes he won were more than the difference in votes between Henry Clay and James K. Polk; some scholars have argued that Birney's support among anti-slavery Whigs in New York swung that decisive state in favor of Polk (see below). (43 words)
As he then explained, a time capsule – filled with items such as class pictures, letters to the future, drawings, collages and, courtesy of Birney himself, a Philadelphia Eagles rally towel – will be placed in the main office and opened in 2043. (41 words)
Other nominations The abolitionist lawyer and publisher James Birney ran as the candidate of the anti-slavery Liberty Party and garnered 2.3% of the popular vote overall, but over 8% of the vote in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. (40 words)
Example sentences (13)
Attendees included many from the Fermanagh area and the surrounding Border area as well as former colleagues of the author; Trevor Birney and Rodney Edwards.
Annie Birney and Eoin Boyle from Dún Laoghaire moved to the isolated island and opened it up to visitors for a shorter three-month period due to Covid-19 restrictions in the summer of 2020.
BIRNEY: (As J. Whitman) It rang a little inauthentic.
Birney is a member of Ride into History, a historical performance touring troupe, that has performed throughout the U.S., from the Smithsonian to Saipan.
Julene Boe and her husband, Dale Lucas of Duluth, own a different original painting of Apple Mary or Apple Annie (who apparently also sold apples) painted in 1937 by famed Minnesota artist Birney Quick.
Michael Walker planned to plead guilty to second-degree murder, his defense attorney Birney Bervar told The Associated Press.
As he then explained, a time capsule – filled with items such as class pictures, letters to the future, drawings, collages and, courtesy of Birney himself, a Philadelphia Eagles rally towel – will be placed in the main office and opened in 2043.
Fighting commenced against these relatively green troops, who were soon reinforced by the 1st Maryland Regiment and then David Birney's infantry division.
He sent Birney's division, flanked by two battalions of Col. Hiram Berdan 's U.S. sharpshooters, south from Hazel Grove with orders to pierce the column and gain possession of the road.
Jackson had ordered the 23rd Georgia Infantry to guard the rear of the column and they resisted the advance of Birney and Berdan at Catherine Furnace.
Liberty Party candidate James G. Birney won slightly more than 15,000 votes in New York and likely attracted votes that might have gone to Clay.
Other nominations The abolitionist lawyer and publisher James Birney ran as the candidate of the anti-slavery Liberty Party and garnered 2.3% of the popular vote overall, but over 8% of the vote in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont.
The votes he won were more than the difference in votes between Henry Clay and James K. Polk; some scholars have argued that Birney's support among anti-slavery Whigs in New York swung that decisive state in favor of Polk (see below).
Common combinations with birney
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- birney and 4×
- of birney 2×
- james birney 2×