How do you use Carrel in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like alcove or stall, plus the exact meaning.
Carrel meaning
- Alternative spelling of carol (“a small closet or enclosure built against the inner side of a window of a monastery's cloister, to sit in for study”).
- A partitioned space for reading or studying, often in a library.
Synonyms of Carrel
Using Carrel
- The main meaning on this page is: Alternative spelling of carol (“a small closet or enclosure built against the inner side of a window of a monastery's cloister, to sit in for study”). | A partitioned space for reading or studying, often in a library.
- Useful related words include: alexis carrel, alcove, stall, cubicle.
- In the example corpus, carrel often appears in combinations such as: alexis carrel, carrel was, carrel and.
Context around Carrel
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Carrel
- In this selection, "carrel" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, alexis, although, considered, refused and obtained stand out and add context to how "carrel" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include alexis carrel refused to and although carrel was skeptical. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "carrel" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with carrel
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It is not certain how Carrel obtained his anomalous results. (10 words)
When Lindbergh saw the crudeness of Carrel's machinery, he offered to build new equipment for the scientist. (18 words)
Lindbergh considered Carrel his closest friend, and said he would preserve and promote Carrel's ideals after his death. (19 words)
It was in fact Lindbergh's disappointment that contemporary medical technology could not provide an artificial heart pump which would allow for heart surgery on her that led to Lindbergh's first contact with Carrel. (35 words)
Alexis Carrel refused to discount a supernatural explanation and steadfastly reiterated his beliefs, even writing a book describing his experience, Alexis Carrel, The Voyage to Lourdes (New York, Harper & Row, 1939). (31 words)
In the 1930s, Carrel and Charles Lindbergh became close friends not only because of the years they worked together but also because they shared personal, political, and social views. (29 words)
Example sentences (14)
Alexis Carrel refused to discount a supernatural explanation and steadfastly reiterated his beliefs, even writing a book describing his experience, Alexis Carrel, The Voyage to Lourdes (New York, Harper & Row, 1939).
Although Carrel was skeptical about meeting with a priest, Jaki Presse ended up having a profound influence on the rest of Carrel's life.
Lindbergh considered Carrel his closest friend, and said he would preserve and promote Carrel's ideals after his death.
After the notoriety surrounding the event, Carrel could not obtain a hospital appointment because of the pervasive anticlericalism in the French university system at the time.
At the end Buchbaum writes that "I told this story, of my visit to Carrel's laboratory, to various people.
Carrel would be so upset if we lost the strain, we just add a few embryo cells now and then".
Dr. Carrel was to blame only in that he did not keep on top of what was really going on in the laboratory (mostly, he wrote the papers).
For much of his life, Carrel and his wife spent their summers on the Ile Saint-Gildas, which they owned.
Honors In 1972, the Swedish Post Office honored Carrel with a stamp that was part of its Nobel stamp series.
In the 1930s, Carrel and Charles Lindbergh became close friends not only because of the years they worked together but also because they shared personal, political, and social views.
It is not certain how Carrel obtained his anomalous results.
It was in fact Lindbergh's disappointment that contemporary medical technology could not provide an artificial heart pump which would allow for heart surgery on her that led to Lindbergh's first contact with Carrel.
When Lindbergh saw the crudeness of Carrel's machinery, he offered to build new equipment for the scientist.
Witkowski explanation is actually based on the account of a visiting medical researcher, Ralph Buchbaum, who reports being told by a technician in Carrel's lab "Dr.
Common combinations with carrel
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: