Canneries is an English word. Below you'll find 8 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Canneries in a sentence
Canneries meaning
plural of cannery
Using Canneries
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of cannery
- In the example corpus, canneries often appears in combinations such as: the canneries.
Context around Canneries
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Canneries
- In this selection, "canneries" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, funded, large, salmon, wheat, mostly and burnt stand out and add context to how "canneries" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include citation salmon canneries established by and near the canneries. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "canneries" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with canneries
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Glade Hill is one of a fading constellation of publicly funded canneries in Virginia, and across the South. (18 words)
Several of the canneries burnt down in the 1970s but their ruins can still be seen along the oceanfront. (19 words)
Food products include processed meat, all types of canneries, wheat and flour, sweets and chocolate, dried fruits, soft drinks and beverages. (21 words)
The Columbia River salmon population is now less than 3% of what it was when Lewis and Clark arrived at the river. citation Salmon canneries established by settlers beginning in 1866 had a strong negative impact on the salmon population. (40 words)
The Finns mostly lived in Uniontown, near the present-day end of the Astoria–Megler Bridge, and took fishing jobs; the Chinese tended to do cannery work, and usually lived either downtown or in bunkhouses near the canneries. (38 words)
To distribute its products, Standard Oil constructed storage tanks, canneries (bulk oil from large ocean tankers was re-packaged into 5-gallon tins), warehouses and offices in key Chinese cities. (30 words)
Example sentences (8)
Glade Hill is one of a fading constellation of publicly funded canneries in Virginia, and across the South.
Food products include processed meat, all types of canneries, wheat and flour, sweets and chocolate, dried fruits, soft drinks and beverages.
It operated several large canneries, mostly packing sardines from the 1920s until the 1950s when the sardines were over fished and the industry collapsed.
Several of the canneries burnt down in the 1970s but their ruins can still be seen along the oceanfront.
The Columbia River salmon population is now less than 3% of what it was when Lewis and Clark arrived at the river. citation Salmon canneries established by settlers beginning in 1866 had a strong negative impact on the salmon population.
The Finns mostly lived in Uniontown, near the present-day end of the Astoria–Megler Bridge, and took fishing jobs; the Chinese tended to do cannery work, and usually lived either downtown or in bunkhouses near the canneries.
The ghost towns in British Columbia were predominantly mining towns and prospecting camps as well as canneries and, in one or two cases, large smelter and pulp mill towns.
To distribute its products, Standard Oil constructed storage tanks, canneries (bulk oil from large ocean tankers was re-packaged into 5-gallon tins), warehouses and offices in key Chinese cities.
Common combinations with canneries
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: