How do you use Digory in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts.
Digory in a sentence
Using Digory
- In the example corpus, digory often appears in combinations such as: digory kirke, digory and, digory finds.
Context around Digory
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 18 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Digory
- In this selection, "digory" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, tells, confronts, blackmails, finds, kirke and helps stand out and add context to how "digory" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a child digory is also and and tells digory he must. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "digory" sits close to words such as aar, abdulla and abimbola, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with digory
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Digory is separated from his father, who is in India, and misses him. (13 words)
Digory returns to Narnia and plants the apple, which grows into a tree instantly. (14 words)
In the garden Digory finds a sign warning not to steal from the garden. (14 words)
Digory and Polly surmise that the wood is not really a proper world at all but a " Wood between the Worlds ", similar to the attic that links their rowhouses back in England, and that each pool leads to a separate universe. (41 words)
Jadis tempts Digory to eat one of the forbidden apples in the garden, as the serpent tempts Eve into eating a forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. (28 words)
Aslan confronts Digory with his responsibility for bringing Jadis into his young world, and tells Digory he must atone by helping to protect Narnia from her evil. (27 words)
Example sentences (20)
Aslan confronts Digory with his responsibility for bringing Jadis into his young world, and tells Digory he must atone by helping to protect Narnia from her evil.
Digory Kirke and his friend Polly Plummer stumble into different worlds by experimenting with magic rings made by Digory's uncle.
Aslan tells Digory how the tree works: anyone who steals the apples gets their heart's desire, but in a form that makes it unlikeable.
Both Digory and Lewis were children in the early 1900s, both wanted a pony, and both were faced with the death of their mothers in childhood.
Digory and Polly surmise that the wood is not really a proper world at all but a " Wood between the Worlds ", similar to the attic that links their rowhouses back in England, and that each pool leads to a separate universe.
Digory finds himself transported to a sleepy woodland with an almost narcotic effect; he finds Polly nearby.
Digory helps construct the raft, but ends up sawing a branch from a talking tree necessary to complete it, in order not to lose face with Polly.
Digory is separated from his father, who is in India, and misses him.
Digory picks one of the apples for his mission, but their overpowering smell tempts him.
Digory plants the apple's core with Uncle Andrew's rings in the back yard of his aunt's home in London.
Digory returns to Narnia and plants the apple, which grows into a tree instantly.
Digory's apple restores his mother's health, and he and Polly remain lifelong friends.
Digory's task is to take an apple from a tree in this garden, and plant it in Narnia.
Digory's uncle is frozen with fear and unable to communicate with the talking animals, who mistake him for a kind of tree.
He blackmails Digory into taking another yellow ring to follow wherever Polly has gone, and two green rings so that they both can return.
In the garden Digory finds a sign warning not to steal from the garden.
Jadis tempts Digory to eat one of the forbidden apples in the garden, as the serpent tempts Eve into eating a forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.
Lewis remembered rainy summer days from his youth and Digory is faced with the same woe in the novel.
Lewis was a voracious reader when a child, Digory is also, and both are better with books than with numbers.
Mrs Lefay visits Digory in The Lefay Fragment, and becomes Andrew Ketterley's nefarious godmother in the finished novel.
Common combinations with digory
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: