Explore Defenestration through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like ejection or exclusion. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Defenestration meaning
- The act of throwing something or especially someone out of a window, especially lethally.
- The high-profile removal of a person from an organization.
Using Defenestration
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of throwing something or especially someone out of a window, especially lethally. | The high-profile removal of a person from an organization. | The high-profile removal of a person from an organization.
- Useful related words include: ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance.
- In the example corpus, defenestration often appears in combinations such as: defenestration of, the defenestration, first defenestration.
Context around Defenestration
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Defenestration
- In this selection, "defenestration" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, first, democrats, self, occurred, adding and window stand out and add context to how "defenestration" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1618 the defenestration of prague and after the defenestration ferdinand and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "defenestration" sits close to words such as aat, abhorrence and abms, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with defenestration
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I saw the defenestration window when I went to Prague, smaller than you would think. (15 words)
The so-called Defenestration of Prague provoked open revolt in Bohemia, which had powerful foreign allies. (16 words)
Background A later woodcut of the defenestration in 1618 The window (top floor) where the second defenestration occurred. (18 words)
First Defenestration of Prague The New Town Hall, the place of the first defenestration The First Defenestration of Prague involved the killing of seven members of the city council by a crowd of radical Czech Hussites on 30 July 1419. (40 words)
Embarrassingly for the White House, George Conway, a top Washington legal eagle who is married to Kellyanne Conway, the president’s top the Sessions defenestration, adding that replacing him with “nobody” Whitaker is “unconstitutional. (34 words)
Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s defenestration in Washington leaves beleaguered House Republicans in his home state, whose seats he helped defend, preparing to spend the next 13 months without one of their biggest assets. (33 words)
Example sentences (14)
First Defenestration of Prague The New Town Hall, the place of the first defenestration The First Defenestration of Prague involved the killing of seven members of the city council by a crowd of radical Czech Hussites on 30 July 1419.
Background A later woodcut of the defenestration in 1618 The window (top floor) where the second defenestration occurred.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s defenestration in Washington leaves beleaguered House Republicans in his home state, whose seats he helped defend, preparing to spend the next 13 months without one of their biggest assets.
Subsequently rowing back on that, he voted for Dominic Raab following the defenestration of Theresa May in 2019, only for the former’s campaign to skid into a ditch.
Besides, the true embarrassment already happened in the form of the Democrats’ defenestration of Joe Biden in July.
But perhaps he should, especially after Israel's defenestration of thousands of Hezbollah fighters and commanders this week.
Hence the defenestration of May and the search for a new leader who can somehow make the delivery before the party has to face the voters again.
Beyond November, Ryan’s self-defenestration could return House Republicans to the state of constant factional conflict in which they lived during the tenure of his predecessor, John Boehner.
Embarrassingly for the White House, George Conway, a top Washington legal eagle who is married to Kellyanne Conway, the president’s top the Sessions defenestration, adding that replacing him with “nobody” Whitaker is “unconstitutional.
I saw the defenestration window when I went to Prague, smaller than you would think.
Just two years after the Defenestration, Ferdinand and the Catholics regained power in the Battle of White Mountain on November 8, 1620.
The defenestration of the Biblical Queen Jezebel at Jezreel, by Gustave Doré Jezebel's death, however, was more dramatic than Ahab's.
The so-called Defenestration of Prague provoked open revolt in Bohemia, which had powerful foreign allies.
War was in the air, and the assault on two roral officials in Prague on 23 May 1618 ( The Defenestration of Prague ) was to spark all out war.
Common combinations with defenestration
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- defenestration of 9×
- the defenestration 7×
- first defenestration 3×
- defenestration in 2×