Canby is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Canby in a sentence
Canby meaning
A census-designated place in Modoc County, California, United States.
Using Canby
- The main meaning on this page is: A census-designated place in Modoc County, California, United States.
- In the example corpus, canby often appears in combinations such as: vincent canby, canby mn, the canby.
Context around Canby
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 7 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Canby
- In this selection, "canby" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, vincent, 1976, margaret, wrote, school and city stand out and add context to how "canby" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 12 1976 canby said godzilla and 1982 vincent canby wrote that. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "canby" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with canby
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Burial at the Canby city cemetery. (6 words)
In 1982, Vincent Canby wrote that "Mr. (7 words)
Houseman Funeral Home, Birk Chapel of Canby, MN is entrusted with arrangements. (12 words)
St. E’s seniors Heather Selekman and Najaah McMillan and junior Sydni Hopes were among more than 100 students gathered at Canby Park across the street from the school, huddling in a whistling wind and temperature of 30 degrees. (39 words)
William C. Canby, Jr., American Indian Law in a Nut Shell, St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co., pp. 23-33 Norma Howard (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), award-winning watercolor painter with Choctaw stickball sticks made by her son. (38 words)
Yet Robert Hatch in The Nation thought it as "excellent a filming of the play as one can expect" and Vincent Canby in The New York Times called it "an exalting Lear, full of exquisite terror". (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
David Nicholas Antony was born on July 7, 1950 to Wilfred and Evelyn Antony in Canby, MN.
Houseman Funeral Home, Birk Chapel of Canby, MN is entrusted with arrangements.
Thirteen of the 37 books that were reviewed by the Canby School District include themes of race and homosexuality.
Burial at the Canby city cemetery.
St. E’s seniors Heather Selekman and Najaah McMillan and junior Sydni Hopes were among more than 100 students gathered at Canby Park across the street from the school, huddling in a whistling wind and temperature of 30 degrees.
About the Fiennes Hamlet Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times that it was "… not one for literary sleuths and Shakespeare scholars.
Although Grant was upset over Canby's death, he ordered restraint, disregarding Sherman's advice to seek revenge or exterminate the tribe.
Canby also said D'Onofrio's performance should be noted with "admiration", and he called Modine "one of the best, most adaptable young film actors of his generation".
Canby believed that while the film did not match the previous two in its pacing, it still had "hilariously off-the-wall sequences" such as the circus train chase.
Canby concluded: Full Metal Jacket was "a film of immense and very rare imagination".
Canby echoed praise for Ermey, calling him "the film's stunning surprise … he's so good—so obsessed—that you might think he wrote his own lines".
In 1982, Vincent Canby wrote that "Mr.
In his review of the film, Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote, "If this film doesn't make an international star of Mr. Gibson, then nothing will.
In his review on July 12, 1976, Canby said, "Godzilla vs. Megalon completes the canonization of Godzilla.
The newspaper also ran a review of the film by Vincent Canby who wrote, "Mr.
There were allegations that this story had been plagiarized from The Frost Fairies by Margaret Canby.
Vincent Canby, "Getting Beyond Myra and The Valley of the Junk", New York Times, July 5, 1970, p. 49. Some reviewers cited the film as groundbreaking.
Vincent Canby of The New York Times called it "harrowing, beautiful and characteristically eccentric".
William C. Canby, Jr., American Indian Law in a Nut Shell, St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co., pp. 23-33 Norma Howard (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), award-winning watercolor painter with Choctaw stickball sticks made by her son.
Yet Robert Hatch in The Nation thought it as "excellent a filming of the play as one can expect" and Vincent Canby in The New York Times called it "an exalting Lear, full of exquisite terror".
Common combinations with canby
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- vincent canby 7×
- canby mn 2×
- the canby 2×
- canby wrote 2×
- canby of 2×