Dewsbury is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Dewsbury in a sentence
Dewsbury meaning
- A minster town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2421).
- A surname.
Using Dewsbury
- The main meaning on this page is: A minster town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2421). | A surname.
- In the example corpus, dewsbury often appears in combinations such as: in dewsbury, dewsbury and, and dewsbury.
Context around Dewsbury
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 10 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dewsbury
- In this selection, "dewsbury" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, kiernan, batley, hall, earmarked and centre stand out and add context to how "dewsbury" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a dewsbury fundraiser is and aiming for dewsbury hall and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dewsbury" sits close to words such as aapl, abattoir and adjei, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dewsbury
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Dewsbury v Batley clashes down the years. (7 words)
Morley, Batley, Dewsbury, Mirfield and Brighouse will not be served. (10 words)
Dewsbury Moor Maroons were pushed hard for their win over Saddleworth Rangers. (12 words)
Hermansen plays another pass out straight to a West Brom player, aiming for Dewsbury-Hall, and after the shot is saved, Winks lays into Iheanacho, saying he should be dropping deeper, and then Iheanacho has a pop back at the midfielder. (41 words)
Ricardo clips a ball over the top to Dewsbury-Hall in the box and while he gets a little lucky with the bounce, he's unlucky with the finish, beating Bachmann but seeing the ball cannon off the post and wide. (41 words)
Ask any Championship supporter who the best player in the league is and a few names are likely to pop up – former Whites winger Jack Clarke and Leicester City’s Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall among them. (35 words)
Remember that Hermansen save at 1-1… Coventry played very well and could easily have won but Dewsbury-Hall took this game by the scruff and won it for us! (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
This saw three facilities at Batley, Colne Valley and Dewsbury, earmarked for closure, though in the end the axe only fell on the Dewsbury centre.
A celebration dinner was held at Dewsbury Town Hall to mark a family doctor’s 50 years’ continuous service with the NHS.
A Dewsbury fundraiser is cycling for 300 miles in June on a solo-challenge to help support Kirkwood Hospice.
Armed police were called and streets in Dewsbury was temporarily closed following reports of gang acting suspiciously on a bus.
Ask any Championship supporter who the best player in the league is and a few names are likely to pop up – former Whites winger Jack Clarke and Leicester City’s Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall among them.
But the only thing missing from one Dewsbury fan’s perspective was the actual League 1 trophy, which will be presented to the Rams in their final game of the season at Doncaster.
Chelsea forward Joao Felix hit the post and had a goal ruled out by VAR while Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall missed a sitter for the hosts before Leicester's Wout Faes was sent off late on.
Dewsbury-Hall's effectiveness had begun to wane prior to a brilliant piece of skill that led to his effort smashing the post in the 70th minute.
Dewsbury Moor Maroons were pushed hard for their win over Saddleworth Rangers.
Dewsbury Rams’ head coach Liam Finn is expecting a ‘tougher’ assignment at Oldham following on from their top-of-the-table-showdown victory over Doncaster.
Dewsbury v Batley clashes down the years.
Hermansen plays another pass out straight to a West Brom player, aiming for Dewsbury-Hall, and after the shot is saved, Winks lays into Iheanacho, saying he should be dropping deeper, and then Iheanacho has a pop back at the midfielder.
Leicester, who remain 14th, were lacklustre although Kelechi Iheanacho had a goal flagged for offside shortly after Trossard’s disallowed effort and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall curled a shot just wide in the second half.
Local people have been the driving force behind regeneration in Dewsbury, and I know that there are committed locals behind other projects like the Heritage Lottery funding grant that will restore our historic Arcade.
Morley, Batley, Dewsbury, Mirfield and Brighouse will not be served.
One of them is Harry, and the other one is Cesare (Casadei) or Kiernan (Dewsbury-Hall), or Wilf (Ndidi) or Kiernan.
Remember that Hermansen save at 1-1… Coventry played very well and could easily have won but Dewsbury-Hall took this game by the scruff and won it for us!
Ricardo clips a ball over the top to Dewsbury-Hall in the box and while he gets a little lucky with the bounce, he's unlucky with the finish, beating Bachmann but seeing the ball cannon off the post and wide.
Taking Cllr Burke’s previous role as deputy will be Dewsbury South Labour councillor, Nosheen Dad.
That line-up would mean just three of the 11 that began the 2-1 win over West Ham at the end of May keep their place, Faes, Castagne, and Dewsbury-Hall.
Common combinations with dewsbury
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in dewsbury 8×
- dewsbury and 5×
- and dewsbury 3×
- the dewsbury 3×
- dewsbury rams 3×
- at dewsbury 2×
- dewsbury town 2×
- dewsbury was 2×
- dewsbury moor 2×
- dewsbury mirfield 2×