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Clovelly in a sentence

Clovelly meaning

  1. A small harbour village and civil parish in Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS3124).
  2. A suburb in the Cape Peninsula area of Cape Town, South Africa.
  3. An eastern suburb of Sydney in the City of Randwick, New South Wales, Australia.

Using Clovelly

  • The main meaning on this page is: A small harbour village and civil parish in Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS3124). | A suburb in the Cape Peninsula area of Cape Town, South Africa. | An eastern suburb of Sydney in the City of Randwick, New South Wales, Australia.
  • In the example corpus, clovelly often appears in combinations such as: to clovelly, and clovelly, in clovelly.

Context around Clovelly

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

sponsor 1× bratton 1×

Often after:

owners 1× terrace 1× row 1× fashions 1× cottage 1× near 1×

Sentence patterns with Clovelly

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

and the clovelly owners acquire 1× house in clovelly at an 1× incident at clovelly cottage in 1× move to clovelly and the 1× name bratton clovelly 1× occurred in clovelly near their 1× our sponsor clovelly fashions of 1× road and clovelly terrace and 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a proposed deal 1× a statement from 1× another cordon was 1× in march it 1× one woman from 1× prime minister rishi 1×

Common sentence endings:

an open auction 1× bally haly property 1× be a storeroom 1× camera s patent 1× election campaign trail 1× name bratton clovelly 1×

Words around Clovelly

Just before it in the word index:

clovechok 3 clove 54 clov 2 clouzot 2 clouts 2 cloutier 24

Just after it in the word index:

cloven 10 clover 142 cloverbelt 2 cloverbud 4 cloverdale 23 cloverfield 17

Similar in corpus frequency:

aanholt 13 aardwolf 13 abati 13 abbeville 13 abcc 13 abcon 13

Corpus analysis for Clovelly

  • In this selection, "clovelly" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, sponsor, bratton, owners, terrace and row stand out and add context to how "clovelly" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and the clovelly owners acquire and house in clovelly at an. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "clovelly" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with clovelly

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Another cordon was placed five minutes walk away on Bude Road and Clovelly Terrace and Clovelly Row, Hunslet Carr. (19 words)

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, during a visit to Clovelly in North Devon, while on the General Election campaign trail. (19 words)

They made the first British film Incident at Clovelly Cottage in February 1895, shortly before falling out over the camera's patent. (22 words)

Longer example sentences

A statement from the force said: "We are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information in connection with a report of theft of lambs from a field in the area of (no street name) Bratton Clovelly. (36 words)

One woman from the nearby suburb of Clovelly, who asked not to be named, told Guardian Australia: “We had to run and hide in a location on the floor which turned out to be a storeroom. (36 words)

A proposed deal is in the works that will see the historic Bally Haly Country Club on Logy Bay Road move to Clovelly, and the Clovelly owners acquire the current Bally Haly property. (33 words)

Example sentences (9)

A proposed deal is in the works that will see the historic Bally Haly Country Club on Logy Bay Road move to Clovelly, and the Clovelly owners acquire the current Bally Haly property.

Another cordon was placed five minutes walk away on Bude Road and Clovelly Terrace and Clovelly Row, Hunslet Carr.

Thanks must go to our sponsor Clovelly Fashions of Maclean for their prizes and lovely Goondiwindi Shirt that was the raffle prize, and Di Moore was lucky enough to win it.

A statement from the force said: "We are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information in connection with a report of theft of lambs from a field in the area of (no street name) Bratton Clovelly.

In March, it was revealed that Jackie had splashed $13.25million on a three-storey oceanfront house in Clovelly at an open auction.

One woman from the nearby suburb of Clovelly, who asked not to be named, told Guardian Australia: “We had to run and hide in a location on the floor which turned out to be a storeroom.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, during a visit to Clovelly in North Devon, while on the General Election campaign trail.

They made the first British film Incident at Clovelly Cottage in February 1895, shortly before falling out over the camera's patent.

Wreckers would attempt to frighten off the curious, suspicious or unwanted visitors, by spreading wild rumours concerning supernatural activity, ghosts and cannibals (as occurred in Clovelly ) near their wrecking sites.

Common combinations with clovelly

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "clovelly" in a sentence?
An example: "A proposed deal is in the works that will see the historic Bally Haly Country Club on Logy Bay Road move to Clovelly, and the Clovelly owners acquire the current Bally Haly property." This page contains 9 example sentences with the word "clovelly" from authentic English texts.
What does "clovelly" mean?
Clovelly means: A small harbour village and civil parish in Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS3124).
How many example sentences with "clovelly" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 9 example sentences with "clovelly", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.