Chawl is an English word. Below you'll find 7 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Chawl meaning
A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.
Using Chawl
- The main meaning on this page is: A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.
- In the example corpus, chawl often appears in combinations such as: in chawl, chawl to, the chawl.
Context around Chawl
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Chawl
- In this selection, "chawl" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, patra, kanda, nangalwadi and redevelopment stand out and add context to how "chawl" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include called kanda chawl to prevent and house in chawl no 91. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "chawl" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with chawl
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
According to sources, Kashmera will essay a simple yet sensuous housewife who stays in a chawl. (16 words)
Goregaon’s Patra Chawl redevelopment, pending since 2008, was also taken up in the review meeting. (16 words)
Mukta Jala, a resident of Panchesheel chawl in Ramabai Nagar, said, “I will definitely vote for the BJP. (18 words)
According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s () disaster management cell, around 9 am on Sunday, a gas cylinder exploded at a house in Chawl No 91 in MHB Colony, Malad Malwani, due to which its wall collapsed. (37 words)
The Rs 10,000 a month that he earns from delivering newspapers and milk, besides the money Vaibhavi earns from providing tiffin services to two homes in the chawl, is a useful addition to the family income. (37 words)
Onion growers tend to store their winter or rabi crop in on-field dust-proof and moisture-proof structures called kanda chawl to prevent the growth of green shoots. (29 words)
Example sentences (7)
According to sources, Kashmera will essay a simple yet sensuous housewife who stays in a chawl.
Goregaon’s Patra Chawl redevelopment, pending since 2008, was also taken up in the review meeting.
Onion growers tend to store their winter or rabi crop in on-field dust-proof and moisture-proof structures called kanda chawl to prevent the growth of green shoots.
The police said the siblings, Sohail and Abbas, went missing shortly after they stepped outside their house in Nangalwadi chawl to play at 4.30 p.m. on Thursday.
According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s () disaster management cell, around 9 am on Sunday, a gas cylinder exploded at a house in Chawl No 91 in MHB Colony, Malad Malwani, due to which its wall collapsed.
Mukta Jala, a resident of Panchesheel chawl in Ramabai Nagar, said, “I will definitely vote for the BJP.
The Rs 10,000 a month that he earns from delivering newspapers and milk, besides the money Vaibhavi earns from providing tiffin services to two homes in the chawl, is a useful addition to the family income.
Common combinations with chawl
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in chawl 2×
- chawl to 2×
- the chawl 2×