Get to know Coursing better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like hunt or hunting.
Coursing meaning
present participle and gerund of course
Using Coursing
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of course
- Useful related words include: hunt, hunting.
- In the example corpus, coursing often appears in combinations such as: coursing through, hare coursing, water coursing.
Context around Coursing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Coursing
- In this selection, "coursing" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hare, water, greatest, main, incident and across stand out and add context to how "coursing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and hare coursing and between disease coursing microbes daa. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "coursing" sits close to words such as aayog, aghast and agitate, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with coursing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hurricane Helene sent several feet of water coursing through Mr. Davis’ own home. (13 words)
Footage showed a river of water coursing down the street outside the station around 5am. (15 words)
More paint has splashed on the tombstone inscribed: “Here Lies the Greatest Coursing Man Of All Time. (17 words)
Witness video showed a huge wave of dirt, water and debris toppling a gate and residents running away as the muck rushed down a city street; other videos showed thick mud coursing through the river banks that pass through town. (40 words)
But when you’re living it, with hormones coursing through your veins and every fiber of your youthful being yearning to break free from parental control, every day is a battle with monsters hidden in plain sight. (37 words)
The residents of Oleshky in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine could not identify many of those they buried after a catastrophic dam collapse in June sent water coursing through their homes and shattered their lives. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Coursing main The original primary use of Greyhounds, both in the British Isles and on the Continent of Europe, was in the coursing of deer.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: "On Friday 17th February 2023 officers were called to North Berwick after they were alerted to a possible ongoing hare coursing incident.
As a direct result of South Rural Task Force's activity, reports of hare coursing across South Lancashire have reduced by a whopping 66 per cent in the last two years.
Her social media posts include one where an attack felt as if lightning was coursing through her body, she said.
More paint has splashed on the tombstone inscribed: “Here Lies the Greatest Coursing Man Of All Time.
OK, OK — two men with Fraser coursing through their adventurous, often-in-peril bodies are left in seriously worrisome ways as we head into next week’s midseason finale.
On the flip side of that coin, however, he described a coursing undercurrent of silenced discourse – one in which those holding certain strongly held convictions have found their views dismissed, devalued and demonized.
The latest storms have sent floodwater coursing through canals and ditches and flowing across farmland toward the old lake bottom.
The residents of Oleshky in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine could not identify many of those they buried after a catastrophic dam collapse in June sent water coursing through their homes and shattered their lives.
Witness video showed a huge wave of dirt, water and debris toppling a gate and residents running away as the muck rushed down a city street; other videos showed thick mud coursing through the river banks that pass through town.
Hurricane Helene sent several feet of water coursing through Mr. Davis’ own home.
Now it's over to Pep Guardiola and his players to keep the feelgood factor coursing through the club.
Similar hare coursing incidents had been reported on four other dates, with the same distinctive van being described.
The Hunting Act 2004 banned hunting foxes or deer with dogs in England and Wales, as well as mink hunting and hare coursing.
There’s plenty of swagger coursing through this track which was probably too hard-rocking to be a single.
But when you’re living it, with hormones coursing through your veins and every fiber of your youthful being yearning to break free from parental control, every day is a battle with monsters hidden in plain sight.
Constable Hannah Haywood, of the Buckie Community Policing Team, said: “Hare coursing is the deliberate hunting of hares with greyhound type dogs.
Footage showed a river of water coursing down the street outside the station around 5am.
It’s about the president coursing an ally at war to help him with a political campaign.
Look at how the Holy Prophet Muhammad, on whom be peace, has skilfully and eloquently used words to distinguish between disease coursing microbes (Daa) and the epidemic they cause (Wabaa).
Common combinations with coursing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- coursing through 19×
- hare coursing 6×
- water coursing 4×
- coursing the 3×
- of coursing 3×
- lure coursing 2×
- coursing and 2×
- coursing is 2×
- in coursing 2×