Chilcotin is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Chilcotin in a sentence
Chilcotin meaning
- A region of British Columbia, on the inland lee of the Coast Mountains on the west side of the Fraser River.
- The river that drains that region.
- A Northern Athabaskan language spoken in British Columbia by the Tsilhqot'in people.
Using Chilcotin
- The main meaning on this page is: A region of British Columbia, on the inland lee of the Coast Mountains on the west side of the Fraser River. | The river that drains that region. | A Northern Athabaskan language spoken in British Columbia by the Tsilhqot'in people.
- In the example corpus, chilcotin often appears in combinations such as: chilcotin river, the chilcotin, cariboo chilcotin.
Context around Chilcotin
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 4 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Chilcotin
- In this selection, "chilcotin" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 29.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cariboo, example, river, mla and ridings stand out and add context to how "chilcotin" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include on the chilcotin river and and and cariboo chilcotin ridings it. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "chilcotin" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with chilcotin
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
There were plans to relocate a blacksmith shop to the area and move the Museum of the Cariboo Chilcotin into the store. (22 words)
The woody debris was dislodged after a landslide last week blocked the Chilcotin River near Farwell Canyon, about 285 kilometres north of Vancouver. (23 words)
For example, Chilcotin has a phonological process known as vowel flattening (i.e. post-velar harmony) where vowels must harmonize with uvular and pharyngealized consonants. (25 words)
The news last week that is giving local residents something to chew on was the announcement by the Cariboo Chilcotin School Board of its plans for a new Marie Sharpe School and a few other things to go with it. (40 words)
Chief Joe Alphonse, Tsilhqot'in National Government tribal chair, said Tuesday the slide and damage from the rushing water could impact critical salmon runs heading for spawning areas upstream on the Chilcotin River and at Chilko Lake. (37 words)
Chief Joe Alphonse, Tsilhqot’in National Government tribal chair, said Tuesday the slide and damage from the rushing water could impact critical salmon runs heading for spawning areas upstream on the Chilcotin River and at Chilko Lake. (37 words)
Example sentences (13)
Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA Lorne Doerkson was the man on the mic, providing MC services for the event, and keeping the crowd on top of what was happening.
Ever since redistricting created the S-BV riding from the Skeena riding and parts of the Prince George-Bulkley Valley and Cariboo-Chilcotin ridings, it has been an NDP stronghold.
The news last week that is giving local residents something to chew on was the announcement by the Cariboo Chilcotin School Board of its plans for a new Marie Sharpe School and a few other things to go with it.
There were plans to relocate a blacksmith shop to the area and move the Museum of the Cariboo Chilcotin into the store.
A salmon task force examining the impacts of the massive landslide that temporarily dammed British Columbia’s Chilcotin River last July says there have been three “significant” slope failures since then, and the site remains unstable.
Chief Joe Alphonse, Tsilhqot'in National Government tribal chair, said Tuesday the slide and damage from the rushing water could impact critical salmon runs heading for spawning areas upstream on the Chilcotin River and at Chilko Lake.
Chief Joe Alphonse, Tsilhqot’in National Government tribal chair, said Tuesday the slide and damage from the rushing water could impact critical salmon runs heading for spawning areas upstream on the Chilcotin River and at Chilko Lake.
Lorne Doerkson, who represents Cariboo-Chilcotin, and BC Conservative Leader John Rustad announced the move that increases the party’s numbers in the legislature to three.
The woody debris was dislodged after a landslide last week blocked the Chilcotin River near Farwell Canyon, about 285 kilometres north of Vancouver.
Anywhere from two to 10 centimetres of snow is expected from the Chilcotin and 100 Mile House area to the Fraser Canyon and eastward to the Kootenays.
Ranches near Big Creek, located in B.C.'s southern Interior northwest of Kamloops, were covered by brown flood water from the Chilcotin River in early July.
I was taking notes for a book I was writing with a group of Xeni gwet’in researchers, and Williams had grown up on Chilcotin War stories.
For example, Chilcotin has a phonological process known as vowel flattening (i.e. post-velar harmony) where vowels must harmonize with uvular and pharyngealized consonants.
Common combinations with chilcotin
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: