How do you use Departments in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Departments meaning
plural of department
Using Departments
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of department
- In the example corpus, departments often appears in combinations such as: departments and, fire departments, the departments.
Context around Departments
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 6 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Departments
- In this selection, "departments" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fire, police, health, assisted, losing and ems stand out and add context to how "departments" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 15 fire departments assisted last, 18 fire departments assisted early, fire departments, police departments and emergency departments. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "departments" sits close to words such as factory, ease and blame, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with departments
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This includes three national departments, 24 provincial departments, six municipalities, and eight SOEs. (13 words)
Roughly 15 fire departments assisted last Tuesday night and 18 fire departments assisted early Wednesday morning. (16 words)
Out of 100 central government ministries/departments, websites of 94 ministries/departments have been made accessible so far. (18 words)
Since 2010, spending for state public health departments has dropped by 16% per capita and spending for local health departments has fallen by 18%, according to an analysis of government spending on public health by KHN and The Associated Press. (40 words)
We have been aware that many economics departments in eurozone central banks and treasury departments have been analysing the impact - if any - that a fiscal expansion in the so-called eurozone core would have on demand in the periphery. (39 words)
In France the numeric code for the departments is used in the first digits of the postal code, except for the two departments in Corsica that have codes 2A and 2B and use 20 as postal code. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Johnston, Westside and Trenton departments would give up the largest proportions of their annual revenues, these departments losing between 10.5% and 12% in funding.
Throughout Sunday, rescue workers from local fire departments, EMS agencies, police departments and the state’s search and rescue task force continued to unearth debris at the explosion site.
The DA is also eyeing directors-general in the departments it gains, and the “‘reviewing” of all tenders for those departments since the president promulgated the election.
In the last week of March alone, the nonprofit “distributed more than 31,000 N95 face masks to police departments, fire departments, emergency managers, and hospital systems in four states,” Robertson told The Daily Signal.
Reviewing fiscal performances of various departments up to December last, Tripathy directed the departments to avoid parking of funds so that actual expenditure would be reflected on the common treasury portal.
Roughly 15 fire departments assisted last Tuesday night and 18 fire departments assisted early Wednesday morning.
Since 2010, spending for state public health departments has dropped by 16% per capita and spending for local health departments has fallen by 18%, according to an analysis of government spending on public health by KHN and The Associated Press.
This includes three national departments, 24 provincial departments, six municipalities, and eight SOEs.
For example, during the recent attempt to join the village and town recreation departments, a large committee of volunteer community members worked with the skilled leaders of both the town and village recreation departments.
Out of 100 central government ministries/departments, websites of 94 ministries/departments have been made accessible so far.
The meetings of the Ministries and Departments with the Expenditure Secretary will involve discussions on the total funds required for various programmes and schemes, along with receipts of the Departments.
We have been aware that many economics departments in eurozone central banks and treasury departments have been analysing the impact - if any - that a fiscal expansion in the so-called eurozone core would have on demand in the periphery.
The VC said that was how the management succeeded in transferring and creating the new ABU Business School, adding that it was expanded from two departments (Business Administration and Public Administration) to six departments.
Though the lion’s share of jobs has been added in police departments, the numbers have also gone up in various ministries and departments.
Departments at the maximum extent of the First French Empire (1812) The old nomenclature was carefully avoided in naming the new departments.
Fire departments Nassau County is currently protected and served by 71 independent volunteer or combination paid/volunteer fire departments, organized into 9 battalions.
Gardening departments and centers Gardening departments and centers mainly sell plants, sundries, and garden accessories, but in recent times, many now stock outdoor leisure products as diverse as spas, furniture, and barbecues.
In addition to these departments, there are several Autonomous Bodies and Attached Departments that report directly to either the Secretaries or the Chief Secretary.
In France the numeric code for the departments is used in the first digits of the postal code, except for the two departments in Corsica that have codes 2A and 2B and use 20 as postal code.
In most universities, many departments ranging from physics to chemistry to chemical engineering —in addition to materials science departments—are involved in materials research.
Phrases with departments
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with departments
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- departments and 28×
- fire departments 18×
- the departments 18×
- police departments 16×
- departments in 14×
- emergency departments 14×
- government departments 12×
- departments to 10×
- departments are 10×
- departments of 10×