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Blunden is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Blunden in a sentence

Blunden meaning

A surname.

Using Blunden

  • The main meaning on this page is: A surname.
  • In the example corpus, blunden often appears in combinations such as: blunden was, blunden and, blunden said.

Context around Blunden

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 10 start, 6 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

1930s 1× morgen 1× geoffrey 1× julie 1× peter 1× edmund 1× writer 1× career 1× 1920 1× life 1×

Often after:

coach 1× insisted 1× news 1× himself 1× left 1× published 1× married 1×

Sentence patterns with Blunden

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a writer blunden left the 1× blunden 53 was 1× blunden and his 1× blunden s love 1× blunden then converted 1× busseboom by blunden himself recorded 1× councillor geoffrey blunden said that 1× executive of blunden coach tours 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

afp superintendent morgen 1× artists rifles an 1× blunden 53 was 1× blunden and his 1× blunden s love 1× blunden then converted 1×

Common sentence endings:

bartle set piece 1× batting without gloves 1× clare s manuscript 1× in july 2015 1× in some places 1× later hong kong 1×

Words around Blunden

Just before it in the word index:

blundell 34 blumstein 3 blummenfelt 3 blumm 3 blumlein 2 bluming 2

Just after it in the word index:

blunder 176 blunderbuss 5 blundered 18 blunderer 6 blundering 19 blunders 96

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaaa 20 abductees 20 abdulahi 20 abetment 20 abhors 20 ablution 20

Corpus analysis for Blunden

  • In this selection, "blunden" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, 1930s, morgen, geoffrey, coach, insisted and news stand out and add context to how "blunden" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a writer blunden left the and blunden 53 was. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "blunden" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with blunden

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Personal life Blunden was married three times. (7 words)

Blunden then converted a Bartle corner before Chitiza struck again following another Bartle set-piece. (15 words)

They divorced in 1931, and in 1933 Blunden married Sylva Norman, a young novelist and critic. (16 words)

Longer example sentences

Neil Monaghan has been appointed Managing Director, Business Services Group, while Peter Blunden, News Corp’s senior editorial leader, will take on a new role as National Executive Editor to lead a national sports operation. (35 words)

One Carshalton resident Julie Blunden, who has become a full-time carer for her husband Ray since his Alzheimer's diagnosis, feels the council has chosen disabled people as an 'easy target' for cuts. (34 words)

The Book Society was run by a selection committee of literary celebrities–the likes of J.B. Priestley, Sylvia Lynd, George Gordon, Edmund Blunden, and Cecil Day-Lewis–chaired by bestselling novelist Hugh Walpole. (34 words)

Example sentences (16)

Blunden, 53, was the co-founder and former chief executive of Blunden Coach Tours, from which he resigned in July 2015.

Blunden and his friend Rupert Hart-Davis regularly opened the batting for a publisher's eleven in the 1930s (Blunden insisted on batting without gloves).

Blunden then converted a Bartle corner before Chitiza struck again following another Bartle set-piece.

AFP Superintendent Morgen Blunden said officers were 'closely tracking the rise in drug mules' amid a rise in alleged drug mules taking place recently.

Councillor Geoffrey Blunden said that parking areas being underused could be repurposed to “address local housing needs”.

One Carshalton resident Julie Blunden, who has become a full-time carer for her husband Ray since his Alzheimer's diagnosis, feels the council has chosen disabled people as an 'easy target' for cuts.

Neil Monaghan has been appointed Managing Director, Business Services Group, while Peter Blunden, News Corp’s senior editorial leader, will take on a new role as National Executive Editor to lead a national sports operation.

The Book Society was run by a selection committee of literary celebrities–the likes of J.B. Priestley, Sylvia Lynd, George Gordon, Edmund Blunden, and Cecil Day-Lewis–chaired by bestselling novelist Hugh Walpole.

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Artists Rifles, an audiobook CD published in 2004, includes a reading of Concert Party, Busseboom by Blunden himself, recorded in 1964 by the British Council.

Blunden's love of cricket, celebrated in his book Cricket Country, is described by the biographer Philip Ziegler as fanatical.

Career as a writer Blunden left the army in 1919 and took up the scholarship at Oxford that he had won while still at school.

For most of his career, Blunden was also a reviewer for English publications and an academic in Tokyo and later Hong Kong.

In 1920 Blunden published a collection of poems, The Waggoner, and with Alan Porter edited the poems of John Clare (mostly from Clare's manuscript).

Personal life Blunden was married three times.

Sassoon's complaints mostly related to Graves's depiction of him and his family, whereas Blunden had read the memoirs of J. C. Dunn and found them at odds with Graves in some places.

They divorced in 1931, and in 1933 Blunden married Sylva Norman, a young novelist and critic.

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Common combinations with blunden

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "blunden" in a sentence?
An example: "Blunden, 53, was the co-founder and former chief executive of Blunden Coach Tours, from which he resigned in July 2015." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "blunden" from authentic English texts.
What does "blunden" mean?
Blunden means: A surname.
How many example sentences with "blunden" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "blunden", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.