Explore Bristol through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like city or metropolis. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Bristol meaning
- A city, ceremonial county, and unitary authority in southwest England bordering Gloucestershire, Somerset and The River Severn.
- Several places in Canada:
- A former village in Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada, merged into the town of Florenceville-Bristol in 2008.
Synonyms of Bristol
Using Bristol
- The main meaning on this page is: A city, ceremonial county, and unitary authority in southwest England bordering Gloucestershire, Somerset and The River Severn. | Several places in Canada: | A former village in Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada, merged into the town of Florenceville-Bristol in 2008.
- Useful related words include: city, metropolis, urban center, port.
- In the example corpus, bristol often appears in combinations such as: bristol city, of bristol, the bristol.
Context around Bristol
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 16 start, 4 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bristol
- In this selection, "bristol" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hospitals, department, hospital, city, airport and civil stand out and add context to how "bristol" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include university hospitals bristol and weston and 26 and bristol south 25. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bristol" sits close to words such as authorized, effectiveness and sentences, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bristol
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Bristol Public Library, Bristol History Room, 5 High St., Bristol. (10 words)
Bristol Airport said: "Flights will not take off from Bristol Airport this morning until 08:00. (16 words)
Thoracic Surgery Department, Bristol Royal Infirmary, University Hospital Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol, BS2 8HW, UK. (19 words)
Varsity Basketball players from Bristol Eastern High, Saint Paul Catholic High and Bristol Central High will be teaming up to play the Boys and Girls Club of Bristol Family Center ‘s Celebrity Basketball Team on Friday, March 16. (38 words)
Denyer has been a councillor in Bristol’s Clifton Down since 2015, while Debbonaire has enjoyed huge majorities in recent years as the Labour MP in the former constituency of Bristol West, which she has held since 2015. (38 words)
The docks were dredged by a scraper-dredger Bertha similar to the one Brunel had designed for the Bristol Floating Harbour. 14 June 1841 saw the opening of the Bristol and Exeter Railway from Bristol to Bridgwater. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Bristol civil rights pioneer Dr Paul Stephenson has died age 87Paul will remain a Bristol legend having led the Bristol bus boycott in the 60s.
Thoracic Surgery Department, Bristol Royal Infirmary, University Hospital Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol, BS2 8HW, UK.
Bristol Public Library, Bristol History Room, 5 High St., Bristol.
Varsity Basketball players from Bristol Eastern High, Saint Paul Catholic High and Bristol Central High will be teaming up to play the Boys and Girls Club of Bristol Family Center ‘s Celebrity Basketball Team on Friday, March 16.
Bristol's Wild Bunch crew became one of the soundsystems to put a local spin on the international phenomenon, helping to birth Bristol's signature sound of trip hop, often termed "the Bristol Sound".
The docks were dredged by a scraper-dredger Bertha similar to the one Brunel had designed for the Bristol Floating Harbour. 14 June 1841 saw the opening of the Bristol and Exeter Railway from Bristol to Bridgwater.
Academics from the University of Bristol and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust set out to examine bowel cancer rates following the introduction of the screening programme in England in 2006.
Bristol Airport said: "Flights will not take off from Bristol Airport this morning until 08:00.
However, new research confirmed that screening “significantly lowers” bowel cancer rates", according to scientists from the University of Bristol, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.
Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol, said: “Delivering a world class music and arts venue for Bristol signifies a major investment in our city's artistic reputation and its cultural roots.
The facility on St Augustine’s Parade, located between the Bristol Hippodrome theatre and cultural venue the Bristol Beacon, will offer more than 6,000 sq ft of space across three floors when it opens in July.
Bristol Drugs Project said: "Nitazenes, dangerous synthetic opioids, were found in multiple samples of heroin bought in Bristol today by The Loop.
Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees said: "It's almost impossible to find the words to describe this afternoon's devastating news from Sea Mills, Bristol.
Denyer has been a councillor in Bristol’s Clifton Down since 2015, while Debbonaire has enjoyed huge majorities in recent years as the Labour MP in the former constituency of Bristol West, which she has held since 2015.
For anyone wanting to get to Bristol Parkway by train from south Wales, they will have to travel north past Gloucester before heading back south and then west towards Bristol.
He was among the artists who attended the seminal Bristol Sessions, led by Ralph Peer for the Victor Talking Machine Company in Bristol, Tennessee in 1927.
The man wanted by Bristol police after human remains were found on Clifton Suspension Bridge on Wednesday, July 10, is believed to have travelled to Bristol from London earlier that same day.
Vicky Lee, head of Bristol City Centre BID, said: “Many businesses in the centre of Bristol have ambitious sustainability goals and we hope that this scheme gives them a leg up - or wheel up - to achieve these.
While they lost to Labour in Bristol East, they still won 31% of the vote, and the party also proved popular in Huddersfield (26%), Sheffield Central (26%) and Bristol South (25%).
Bristol City v Sheffield WednesdayBBC Local News: Sheffield and South Yorkshire -- Live coverage of Sunday's Championship game between Bristol City and Sheffield Wednesday.
Common combinations with bristol
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- bristol city 30×
- of bristol 28×
- the bristol 21×
- in bristol 19×
- and bristol 15×
- at bristol 13×
- bristol rovers 13×
- to bristol 12×
- bristol and 10×
- from bristol 7×