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Using Boushie

  • In the example corpus, boushie often appears in combinations such as: colten boushie, boushie family, of boushie.

Context around Boushie

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
  • Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

colten 5× william 1× killed 1× following 1× near 1×

Often after:

brother 1× speaks 1× described 1× died 1× arrives 1× verdict 1×

Sentence patterns with Boushie

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

boushie died when 1× boushie was a 1× brought colten boushie to gerald 1× canada since boushie s death 1× condolences to boushie s family 1× deaths of boushie and fontaine 1× it near boushie s head 1× killing of boushie a 22 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a lawyer for 1× almost a year 1× boushie died when 1× boushie was a 1× but federal conservatives 1× cassidy cross whitstone 1×

Common sentence endings:

a freak accident 1× a specific case 1× acquitted was hard 1× and their property 1× at the courthouse 1× august 18 2016 1×

Words around Boushie

Just before it in the word index:

boushh 2 boushay 2 bousfield 2 bousbaa 2 bous 2 bourtzi 2

Just after it in the word index:

bouskoura 2 bousley 2 bousman 6 bousquet 6 boussaid 2 boussinesq 3

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaj 27 aal 27 aalto 27 abn 27 abo 27 absalom 27

Corpus analysis for Boushie

  • In this selection, "boushie" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, colten, william, killed, brother, speaks and described stand out and add context to how "boushie" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include boushie died when and boushie was a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "boushie" sits close to words such as aaj, aal and aalto, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with boushie

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

We don't have a voice," said Boushie's uncle, Alvin Baptiste. (12 words)

Boushie was a Cree man from the Red Pheasant First Nation in the province of Saskatchewan. (16 words)

She said hearing that the people accused in the deaths of Boushie and Fontaine were acquitted was hard. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

The claim says that officers didn’t present a search warrant when they arrived at the family’s home at Red Pheasant First Nation when they were looking for Cassidy Cross-Whitstone, who was in the vehicle with Boushie at Stanley’s farm. (43 words)

In February, Gerald Stanley was acquitted of second-degree murder in the killing of Boushie, a 22-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant, in a trial that marked yet another racially charged episode in the province’s fraught history. (40 words)

In the year following Boushie's death, the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities called for the federal government to expand the rights and justification for people to defend themselves, people under their care and their property. (36 words)

Question examples

Q1. would say it was appropriate or inappropriate for the Prime Minister to personally respond to the Boushie verdict? (19 words)

Example sentences (19)

William Boushie, brother of Colten Boushie, speaks to media during a rally outside of the Saskatchewan Provincial Court in North Battleford, Thursday, August 18, 2016.

Five years earlier, Baptiste’s nephew, Colten Boushie, a twenty-two-year-old from Red Pheasant, had been shot and killed by Gerald Stanley, a white farmer, near Biggar, a town in central Saskatchewan.

It was part of the province’s response to concerns about a lack of rural policing presence in the wake of the August 2016 shooting death of Colten Boushie.

A lawyer for Gerald Stanley, the farmer who was holding the semi-automatic pistol that killed Boushie, described the shooting as a “freak accident”.

Almost a year and a half after the shooting, it was obvious that none of them, and Ms. Denny in particular, had overcome Mr. Boushie’s death.

Boushie died when he and four other people drove onto Gerald Stanley's farm near Biggar, Sask., in August 2016.

Boushie was a Cree man from the Red Pheasant First Nation in the province of Saskatchewan.

But federal Conservatives, some of whom also expressed their condolences to Boushie’s family, nonetheless blasted Trudeau and his ministers for weighing in on a specific case.

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Cassidy Cross-Whitstone, the person who was driving the SUV that brought Colten Boushie to Gerald Stanley's farm, arrives at the courthouse.

Gerald Stanley, charged in the death of Colten Boushie, arrives at the courthouse in with one of his lawyers Wednesday morning.

In February, Gerald Stanley was acquitted of second-degree murder in the killing of Boushie, a 22-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant, in a trial that marked yet another racially charged episode in the province’s fraught history.

In the year following Boushie's death, the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities called for the federal government to expand the rights and justification for people to defend themselves, people under their care and their property.

Much was made about Boushie and his friends having had too much to drink on the day he was killed.

Q1. would say it was appropriate or inappropriate for the Prime Minister to personally respond to the Boushie verdict?

Rallies and protests have happened across Canada since Boushie's death, and even more so after Stanley's acquittal.

She said hearing that the people accused in the deaths of Boushie and Fontaine were acquitted was hard.

Stanley testified in the Battleford Court of Queen's Bench that the Tokarev accidentally went off while he held it near Boushie's head.

The claim says that officers didn’t present a search warrant when they arrived at the family’s home at Red Pheasant First Nation when they were looking for Cassidy Cross-Whitstone, who was in the vehicle with Boushie at Stanley’s farm.

We don't have a voice," said Boushie's uncle, Alvin Baptiste.

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Common combinations with boushie

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

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