Get to know Craven better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like cowardly or fearful.
Craven meaning
Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.
Using Craven
- The main meaning on this page is: Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.
- Useful related words include: recreant, cowardly, fearful, poltroon.
- In the example corpus, craven often appears in combinations such as: craven cottage, at craven, craven park.
Context around Craven
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Craven
- In this selection, "craven" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, wes, directors, group, cottage, park and funeral stand out and add context to how "craven" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a rainy craven park fireworks and chris craven dragged wide. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "craven" sits close to words such as adherents, admirers and agitated, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with craven
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Craven believed he died in the middle of a nightmare. (10 words)
CRAVEN College is hosting an open evening at its Aireville Campus. (11 words)
Hull KR booked their semi-final place on Friday evening, beating Leigh Leopards at Craven Park. (16 words)
A player who took a lot of flack at the start of the year, the Aussie is now proving why Willie Peters brought him over to Craven Park on a two-year deal. (33 words)
A strategic outline business case was produced for Ribble Valley Council in 2021 by Stantec and Allan Rail to improve North Yorkshire and Lancashire rail links through the Craven and Ribble Valley districts. (33 words)
He was at the helm for the opening round victory over Wigan Warriors, the 28-0 victory over Huddersfield Giants and more recently, Craven Park triumphs over Wakefield Trinity and Castleford Tigers. (32 words)
Dozens of faces from a rainy Craven Park fireworks night event in Hull A soggy night but plenty of smiles! (20 words)
Example sentences (20)
All enquiries to be directed to W. Craven Funeral Directors, Craven Lodge, Broadgreen Road, Old Swan, L13 5SG.
A player who took a lot of flack at the start of the year, the Aussie is now proving why Willie Peters brought him over to Craven Park on a two-year deal.
A strategic outline business case was produced for Ribble Valley Council in 2021 by Stantec and Allan Rail to improve North Yorkshire and Lancashire rail links through the Craven and Ribble Valley districts.
A view of Sewell Group Craven Park's East Stand, which Hull KR are looking to expand.
But he has not travelled down to Craven Cottage from Manchester for this afternoon’s match, due to a niggle he picked up towards the end of the Arsenal victory.
Chelsea news: How to watch the Blues in action against London rivals Fulham in a Premier League clash at Craven Cottage.
Chelsea return to action for the first time in 13 days against Fulham at Craven Cottage on Friday night before travelling to West Ham United for another London derby next week.
Chris Craven dragged wide from 12 yards after a battling right wing run from Lewis Rees as the Archers continued to press with possession becoming increasingly scarce for the Robins.
City seized the initiative at Craven Cottage, with Erling Haaland notching his 50th goal of the season in all competitions when he opened the scoring with an early penalty.
Costume designer Avery Plewes gradually introduces scarier costumes as the scene progresses, many of which reference other films by the original director Wes Craven.
Craven and willing participants, they’ve maximized their deal with Frankenstein — and now they want a refund.
Craven believed he died in the middle of a nightmare.
CRAVEN College is hosting an open evening at its Aireville Campus.
Craven Cottage is only around 1.6 miles walk away from Stamford Bridge but only has a capacity of 29,600 once their own stadium redevelopment work is finished this summer.
Dozens of faces from a rainy Craven Park fireworks night event in Hull A soggy night but plenty of smiles!
Everything that could have gone wrong at Craven Cottage did go wrong for Gerrard and his team.
Fulham are the only Premier League side that have failed to win so far on Saturday after they were held 1-1 by Sunderland at Craven Cottage.
He played Detective Mark Kincaid n the Wes Craven film, who is eventually set up as a potential love interest for Neve Campbell's Sidney Prescott.
He was at the helm for the opening round victory over Wigan Warriors, the 28-0 victory over Huddersfield Giants and more recently, Craven Park triumphs over Wakefield Trinity and Castleford Tigers.
Hull KR booked their semi-final place on Friday evening, beating Leigh Leopards at Craven Park.
Common combinations with craven
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- craven cottage 70×
- at craven 56×
- craven park 24×
- the craven 17×
- wes craven 13×
- to craven 10×
- of craven 10×
- craven and 6×
- and craven 6×
- john craven 4×