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Get to know Boreen better with 2 real example sentences, the meaning.

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Boreen meaning

A narrow, frequently unpaved, rural road in Ireland, often characterised by a ridge of grass growing in the middle.

Using Boreen

  • The main meaning on this page is: A narrow, frequently unpaved, rural road in Ireland, often characterised by a ridge of grass growing in the middle.

Context around Boreen

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Sentence patterns with Boreen

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

at a boreen in blackwater 1× up the boreen with my 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

mr kelly was 1×

Common sentence endings:

14 year old 1× outside limerick city 1×

Words around Boreen

Just before it in the word index:

boredoms 2 boredom 175 bored 487 boreas 4 boreanaz 10 borealis 63

Just after it in the word index:

boreham 11 borehamwood 9 borehole 64 boreholes 67 borei 3 borek 5

Similar in corpus frequency:

aabc 4 aacr 4 aacsb 4 aadar 4 aadk 4 aadujeevitham 4

Corpus analysis for Boreen

  • In this selection, "boreen" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Recognizable usage signals include at a boreen in blackwater and up the boreen with my. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "boreen" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with boreen

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

I had a woman message me, her 12-year-old son was smoking weed up the Boreen with my 14-year-old. (22 words)

Mr Kelly was shot five times – once in the head and four times in the torso – and his body discovered at a boreen, in Blackwater near Ardnacrusha, about two miles outside Limerick City. (33 words)

Longer example sentences

Mr Kelly was shot five times – once in the head and four times in the torso – and his body discovered at a boreen, in Blackwater near Ardnacrusha, about two miles outside Limerick City. (33 words)

I had a woman message me, her 12-year-old son was smoking weed up the Boreen with my 14-year-old. (22 words)

Example sentences (2)

Mr Kelly was shot five times – once in the head and four times in the torso – and his body discovered at a boreen, in Blackwater near Ardnacrusha, about two miles outside Limerick City.

I had a woman message me, her 12-year-old son was smoking weed up the Boreen with my 14-year-old.

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "boreen" in a sentence?
An example: "Mr Kelly was shot five times – once in the head and four times in the torso – and his body discovered at a boreen, in Blackwater near Ardnacrusha, about two miles outside Limerick City." This page contains 2 example sentences with the word "boreen" from authentic English texts.
What does "boreen" mean?
Boreen means: A narrow, frequently unpaved, rural road in Ireland, often characterised by a ridge of grass growing in the middle.
How many example sentences with "boreen" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 2 example sentences with "boreen", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.