Wondering how to use Calabash in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as gourd or pipe.
Calabash meaning
- A tree (known as the calabash tree; Crescentia cujete) native to Central and South America, the West Indies, and southern Florida, bearing large, round fruit used to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this tree.
- The bottle gourd (calabash vine, Lagenaria siceraria), believed to have originated in Africa, which is grown for its fruit that are used as a vegetable and to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this plant.
- A container made from the mature, dried shell of the fruit of one of the above plants; also, a similarly shaped container made from some other material.
Synonyms of Calabash
Using Calabash
- The main meaning on this page is: A tree (known as the calabash tree; Crescentia cujete) native to Central and South America, the West Indies, and southern Florida, bearing large, round fruit used to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this tree. | The bottle gourd (calabash vine, Lagenaria siceraria), believed to have originated in Africa, which is grown for its fruit that are used as a vegetable and to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this plant. | A container made from the mature, dried shell of the fruit of one of the above plants; also, a similarly shaped container made from some other material.
- Useful related words include: gourd, pipe, calabash pipe, bottle.
- In the example corpus, calabash often appears in combinations such as: the calabash, calabash calabash, calabash pipe.
Context around Calabash
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 6 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Calabash
- In this selection, "calabash" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, poisoned, open, proverbial, pipe, chalk and whenever stand out and add context to how "calabash" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a calabash pipe is and a covered calabash to the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "calabash" sits close to words such as abad, abovementioned and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with calabash
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Calabash donations at the door. (5 words)
Calabash Calabash pipe with meerschaum bowl. (6 words)
Taking part in such would be akin to knowingly drinking from a poisoned calabash. (14 words)
A suspected serial house breaker who claimed he had a magical calabash that directed him to homes where there was cash has been arrested for stealing more than US$50 000 from nine houses in the leafy suburbs of Burnside and Hillside in Bulawayo. (44 words)
That’s because calabash seafood, the freshly-pulled-from-the-water, lightly breaded and deep-fried denizens of the sea (think: shrimp, oysters, crab, grouper and flounder) became famous here in the 1930s and ’40s. (35 words)
Due to the inclement weather over night and into today, the Calabash World Cup which was originally scheduled to take place at 2:30pm this afternoon at the beach near Rendezvous Resort has been canceled. (35 words)
Example sentences (18)
Calabash Calabash pipe with meerschaum bowl.
He said, “Calabash chalk is a type of clay some people, particularly pregnant women eat as medicine.
Professor Stanley Niaah says she’s pleased festivals like Calabash is still encouraging the craft.
Taking part in such would be akin to knowingly drinking from a poisoned calabash.
In old Oyo kingdom, according to Samuel Johnson, Obas were forced to open calabash whenever they were perceived as having sunk into ignominy.
That’s because calabash seafood, the freshly-pulled-from-the-water, lightly breaded and deep-fried denizens of the sea (think: shrimp, oysters, crab, grouper and flounder) became famous here in the 1930s and ’40s.
The calabash was filled to the brim, however, one could not ascertain what is inside it.
The incumbent government may use intimidation and force to drive it underground, yet like the proverbial calabash, it will bubble up again.
A suspected serial house breaker who claimed he had a magical calabash that directed him to homes where there was cash has been arrested for stealing more than US$50 000 from nine houses in the leafy suburbs of Burnside and Hillside in Bulawayo.
Calabash donations at the door.
Calabash Literary Festival will be held June 1 thru 3, 2018, at Treasure Beach in St. Elizabeth.
Due to the inclement weather over night and into today, the Calabash World Cup which was originally scheduled to take place at 2:30pm this afternoon at the beach near Rendezvous Resort has been canceled.
I saw the calabash balanced in the middle of used sanitary pads dumped there.
What is happening, dear eRat, since you folks now feign ignorance, is the modern equivalent of the OyoMesi delivering a covered Calabash to the Alaafin of old.
A calabash pipe is rather large and easy to recognize as a pipe when used on a stage in dramatic productions.
Calabash gourds (usually with meerschaum or porcelain bowls set inside them) have long made prized pipes, but they are labour-intensive and, today, quite expensive.
During a public performance, an mbira dzavadzimu is frequently placed in a deze ( calabash resonator) to amplify its sound.
The gyil is usually played in pairs, accompanied by a calabash gourd drum called a kuor.
Common combinations with calabash
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: