Get to know Bunter better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like batter or hitter.
Bunter meaning
One who bunts.
Using Bunter
- The main meaning on this page is: One who bunts.
- Useful related words include: batter, hitter, slugger, batsman.
- In the example corpus, bunter often appears in combinations such as: bunter is, rum bunter.
Context around Bunter
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bunter
- In this selection, "bunter" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rum, honeymoon, billy, former, sandstone and setting stand out and add context to how "bunter" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a good bunter and siebert and at rum bunter. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bunter" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bunter
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Whereupon Wimsey remarks: "Bunter likes me to know my place". (10 words)
Throughout the books, Bunter takes care to address Wimsey as "My Lord". (12 words)
One would not think it, but Billy Bunter can run when he has to. (14 words)
The Wimsey Papers included a reference to Wimsey and Bunter setting out during the war on a secret mission of espionage in Europe, and provide the ironic epitaph Wimsey writes for himself: Here lies an anachronism in the vague expectation of eternity. (42 words)
For much of the book he is in Italy (in Germany in the TV adaptation), dealing with a major crisis which for a time seemed to threaten the outbreak of a new European war (as he tells Bunter). (38 words)
Thus the Bessie Bunter series of English boarding-school stories, initially written by the prolific Charles Hamilton under the name Hilda Richards, was taken on by other authors who continued to use the same pen-name. (36 words)
It’s been a few weeks…but welcome back to the mailbag here at Rum Bunter! (16 words)
Example sentences (15)
In a brief passage written from Bunter's point of view in Busman's Honeymoon Bunter is seen, even in the privacy of his own mind, to be thinking of his employer as "His Lordship".
One would not think it, but Billy Bunter can run when he has to.
Someone who is no stranger to Rum Bunter, former Pittsburgh Pirates minor league pitching coach Eric Minshall.
It’s been a few weeks…but welcome back to the mailbag here at Rum Bunter!
Garry admits the final-inning strategy was unorthodox but added that Shook is a good bunter, and Siebert’s artificial turf infield doesn’t give up bad bounces.
Bunter, a man of many talents himself, not least photography, often proves instrumental in Peter's investigations.
For much of the book he is in Italy (in Germany in the TV adaptation), dealing with a major crisis which for a time seemed to threaten the outbreak of a new European war (as he tells Bunter).
South of the Kinzig the bunter sandstone zone narrows to a fringe in the east of the mountain range.
The two of them are clearly the best and closest of friends, yet Bunter is invariably punctilious in using "my lord" even when they are alone, and "his lordship" in company.
The Wimsey Papers included a reference to Wimsey and Bunter setting out during the war on a secret mission of espionage in Europe, and provide the ironic epitaph Wimsey writes for himself: Here lies an anachronism in the vague expectation of eternity.
Thick rotliegendes rock, covered by bunter, also occurs in the north of the Dinkelberg block (several hundred metres thick in the Basel geothermal borehole).
Throughout the books, Bunter takes care to address Wimsey as "My Lord".
Thus the Bessie Bunter series of English boarding-school stories, initially written by the prolific Charles Hamilton under the name Hilda Richards, was taken on by other authors who continued to use the same pen-name.
Whereupon Wimsey remarks: "Bunter likes me to know my place".
Whose Body?, ch. 8 In "The Vindictive Story of the Footsteps That Ran", the staunchly democratic Doctor Hartman invites Bunter to sit down to eat together with himself and Wimsey, at the doctor's modest apartment.
Common combinations with bunter
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- bunter is 2×
- rum bunter 2×