How do you use Brunanburh in a sentence? See 4 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts.
Brunanburh in a sentence
Synonyms of Brunanburh
Using Brunanburh
- Useful related words include: battle of brunanburh, pitched battle.
Context around Brunanburh
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Brunanburh
- In this selection, "brunanburh" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include battle of brunanburh and brunanburh and after. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "brunanburh" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with brunanburh
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Brunanburh, for all that it had been a famous and bloody battle, settled nothing. (14 words)
After fighting many battles, his defeat at Brunanburh was followed by his retirement as a Culdee monk at St. Andrews. (20 words)
Foot, Æthelstan: The First King of England, pp. 97–98, 215 Oda may have been present at the battle of Brunanburh. (21 words)
Brunanburh and after Following his disappearance from Æthelstan's court after 935, there is no further report of Constantine until 937. In that year, together with Owen of Strathclyde and Olaf Guthfrithson of Dublin, Constantine invaded England. (37 words)
Foot, Æthelstan: The First King of England, pp. 97–98, 215 Oda may have been present at the battle of Brunanburh. (21 words)
After fighting many battles, his defeat at Brunanburh was followed by his retirement as a Culdee monk at St. Andrews. (20 words)
Example sentences (4)
After fighting many battles, his defeat at Brunanburh was followed by his retirement as a Culdee monk at St. Andrews.
Brunanburh and after Following his disappearance from Æthelstan's court after 935, there is no further report of Constantine until 937. In that year, together with Owen of Strathclyde and Olaf Guthfrithson of Dublin, Constantine invaded England.
Brunanburh, for all that it had been a famous and bloody battle, settled nothing.
Foot, Æthelstan: The First King of England, pp. 97–98, 215 Oda may have been present at the battle of Brunanburh.