How do you use Crookes in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like chemist or physicist, plus the exact meaning.
Crookes meaning
A surname.
Using Crookes
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname.
- Useful related words include: william crookes, sir william crookes, chemist, physicist.
- In the example corpus, crookes often appears in combinations such as: the crookes, william crookes, crookes was.
Context around Crookes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Crookes
- In this selection, "crookes" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, william, fool, joy, sheffield, area and businesses stand out and add context to how "crookes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include at 160 crookes is open and by lamy crookes tried to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "crookes" sits close to words such as abating, abductors and abstaining, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with crookes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Councillor Crookes has been a Conservative Councillor since 1995 representing the Wainbody Ward. (13 words)
He is said to frequent the Crookes area, as well as the city centre. (14 words)
The FBI has described 20-year-old shooter Thomas Matthew Crookes as a "lone wolf". (15 words)
Officers said they were particularly keen to speak to the customers of a number of Crookes businesses who were in the area at the time, as well as the passengers of two buses that passed by the scene. (38 words)
Another well-known KZN South Coast nature reserve, Vernon Crookes has a vast selection of hiking trails within the 2 189-hectare expanse, ranging from a gentle one-hour stroll through to the more advanced six-hour hikes. (38 words)
In theory, after it leaves the bloc, Britain “could design a relationship with China that could move away from the model currently being put forward in the E.U.-China relationship,” Dr. Irwin Crookes said by email. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Emergency services were called shortly after 7pm on May 25 to reports 17-year-old Mohammed Iqbal had been found seriously injured on Crookes in the Crookes Sheffield suburb.
In a series of experiments in London at the house of Crookes in February 1875, the medium Anna Eva Fay managed to fool Crookes into believing she had genuine psychic powers.
He is said to frequent the Crookes area, as well as the city centre.
Officers said they were particularly keen to speak to the customers of a number of Crookes businesses who were in the area at the time, as well as the passengers of two buses that passed by the scene.
Coachella's 2024 line-up has been praised for its South Asian representation, with the likes of Mercury prize nominee Joy Crookes - who's from South London and is half Bangladeshi - performing.
It was officially discovered in 1879 by the English scientist Sir William Crookes, who was the inventor of the vacuum tube.
Memi’s Coffee House, at 160 Crookes, is open every day of the week from 9am to 4pm.
The FBI has described 20-year-old shooter Thomas Matthew Crookes as a "lone wolf".
Another well-known KZN South Coast nature reserve, Vernon Crookes has a vast selection of hiking trails within the 2 189-hectare expanse, ranging from a gentle one-hour stroll through to the more advanced six-hour hikes.
Meanwhile, Derek Crookes, of the Toy Retailers Association, said: 'There is still stock on shelves but some lines may face shortages.
According to MEC Dhlomo, these additions to the government-run GJ Crookes Hospital, will put it on par with hospitals in the private sector.
In theory, after it leaves the bloc, Britain “could design a relationship with China that could move away from the model currently being put forward in the E.U.-China relationship,” Dr. Irwin Crookes said by email.
As both scientists discovered thallium independently and a large part of the work, especially the isolation of the metallic thallium was done by Lamy, Crookes tried to secure his priority on the work.
At the Annual Meeting of the City Council on 16 May 2013, Councillor Gary Crookes was elected as the new Lord Mayor of Coventry.
At the time, Crookes was collaborating with a fellow electro-physicist Cromwell Fleetwood Varley, who was a pioneer of intercontinental telegraphy, as well as a clairvoyant.
By the 1870s, British physicist William Crookes and others were able to evacuate tubes to a lower pressure, below 10 −6 atm.
Chemists William Crookes and Claude-Auguste Lamy discovered thallium independently in 1861, in residues of sulfuric acid production.
Councillor Crookes has been a Conservative Councillor since 1995 representing the Wainbody Ward.
Crookes and Arthur Schuster believed they were particles of "radiant matter", that is, electrically charged atoms.
Crookes' attention had been attracted to the vacuum balance in the course of his research into thallium.
Common combinations with crookes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the crookes 5×
- william crookes 5×
- crookes was 5×
- crookes and 4×
- crookes tubes 3×
- crookes tube 3×
- crookes in 2×
- of crookes 2×
- at crookes 2×
- crookes as 2×