On this page you'll find 5 example sentences with Cuckooing. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Cuckooing meaning
- The call of a cuckoo.
- A form of crime in which the home of a vulnerable person is taken over by a criminal gang and used as a base for their activities.
Using Cuckooing
- The main meaning on this page is: The call of a cuckoo. | A form of crime in which the home of a vulnerable person is taken over by a criminal gang and used as a base for their activities.
- In the example corpus, cuckooing often appears in combinations such as: as cuckooing.
Context around Cuckooing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 0 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cuckooing
- In this selection, "cuckooing" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include known as cuckooing and so called cuckooing. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cuckooing" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cuckooing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This practice is known as cuckooing. (6 words)
His team arrests one man, while the remaining five or six occupants are treated as potential victims of "cuckooing". (19 words)
They used the home of a woman in her 30s in Walton Street, Jericho, for their criminality for around a week, known as cuckooing. (24 words)
Gangs often drive out local dealers, exploit children such as Boy X and frequently take over a local property belonging to an addict or vulnerable person to use as a base, a practice known as cuckooing. (36 words)
Clitheroe’s colleague, DI Kathryn Riley, gave a recent example of a vulnerable woman whose home was being used by dealers as a base – so called “cuckooing”. (27 words)
They used the home of a woman in her 30s in Walton Street, Jericho, for their criminality for around a week, known as cuckooing. (24 words)
Example sentences (5)
Clitheroe’s colleague, DI Kathryn Riley, gave a recent example of a vulnerable woman whose home was being used by dealers as a base – so called “cuckooing”.
His team arrests one man, while the remaining five or six occupants are treated as potential victims of "cuckooing".
They used the home of a woman in her 30s in Walton Street, Jericho, for their criminality for around a week, known as cuckooing.
Gangs often drive out local dealers, exploit children such as Boy X and frequently take over a local property belonging to an addict or vulnerable person to use as a base, a practice known as cuckooing.
This practice is known as cuckooing.
Common combinations with cuckooing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- as cuckooing 3×