Dover is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Dover meaning
- A town, civil parish (with a town council) and major port in Kent, England, the closest point to France (OS grid ref TR3141).
- A sea area between this port and France.
- A local government district of Kent, including this town and port.
Synonyms of Dover
Using Dover
- The main meaning on this page is: A town, civil parish (with a town council) and major port in Kent, England, the closest point to France (OS grid ref TR3141). | A sea area between this port and France. | A local government district of Kent, including this town and port.
- Useful related words include: capital of delaware, state capital.
- In the example corpus, dover often appears in combinations such as: of dover, in dover, the dover.
Context around Dover
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 6 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dover
- In this selection, "dover" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, new, parenthood, newspapers, police, priory and capital stand out and add context to how "dover" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include from the dover police department and and at dover moat bulwark. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dover" sits close to words such as clippers, differing and downturn, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dover
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Dover market opened up with the closing of the Acme Market store in north Dover. (16 words)
Dover is easily Bowman’s best track, as he has five top-fives in his last six Dover starts. (19 words)
Dover is also home to The Children's Theatre, Inc. of Dover and Kent County, citation a non-profit organization. (20 words)
A 30-year-old Dover Township woman, a 30-year-old Chatham man, a 42-year-old Chatham man and a 54-year-old Chatham man, were charged with five counts of possessing a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking. (41 words)
Dover Business Services (DBS), an independent business-to-business service provider within Dover Corporation, launched a job fair dubbed “Hiring Blitz” for their expansion plans in Cebu at Seda Ayala Center Cebu on January 25 to 26, 2024. (38 words)
Officers from the Dover Police Department responded Friday morning to calls from a group of protesters outside the Planned Parenthood – Dover Health Center in Delaware, according to a Saturday press release from the Dover Police Department. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Officers from the Dover Police Department responded Friday morning to calls from a group of protesters outside the Planned Parenthood – Dover Health Center in Delaware, according to a Saturday press release from the Dover Police Department.
Newspapers Dover has two paid for newspapers, the Dover Express (published by Kent Regional News and Media) and the Dover Mercury (published by the KM Group ).
Dover Business Services (DBS), an independent business-to-business service provider within Dover Corporation, launched a job fair dubbed “Hiring Blitz” for their expansion plans in Cebu at Seda Ayala Center Cebu on January 25 to 26, 2024.
Dover is easily Bowman’s best track, as he has five top-fives in his last six Dover starts.
Trains between London St Pancras International and Ramsgate via Dover Priory will only run between London St Pancras International and Dover Priory.
New Dover Capital Corp. was formerly known as Ultra Motorcycle Company LLC and changed its name to New Dover Capital Corp. in August 2007.
Dover and Deal MP Charlie Elphicke said: 'This underlines yet again why we urgently need air surveillance day and night along the French coast - to catch the traffickers long before they reach Dover.
Dover Townwall street to Dover docks Extinction Rebellion protest.91 year old John Lymes sits down on the entrance to the port and sips his tea, blocking the road.
The Dover market opened up with the closing of the Acme Market store in north Dover.
A very early photograph showing a Dover street scene, c. 1860 Dover’s history, because of its proximity to France, has always been of great strategic importance to Britain.
Culture The former Dover Opera House, built in 1904, was renovated and converted to the Schwartz Center for the Arts, citation which hosts performances by the Dover Symphony Orchestra, citation ballet, and classic films.
Delaware Route 8 is the main east–west route through Dover, passing through downtown on Division Street and West Dover on Forrest Avenue.
Dover is also home to The Children's Theatre, Inc. of Dover and Kent County, citation a non-profit organization.
From the back covers of the Dual-Language edition published by Dover Publications, 1996 and the Dover Thrift Edition, 1996.
He also strengthened existing coastal defence fortresses such as Dover Castle and, at Dover, Moat Bulwark and Archcliffe Fort, which he personally visited for a few months to supervise.
Pierre, South Dakota ; Jefferson City, Missouri ; and Juneau, Alaska are the other three state capitals with this distinction. citation Dover Air Force Base is located within the southeast corporate limits of Dover.
The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History, p. 50. Dover Value Editions, Courier Dover Publications, 2003.
The railway reached Dover from two directions: the South Eastern Railway's main line connected with Folkestone in 1844, and the London, Chatham and Dover Railway opened its line from Canterbury in 1861.
Transport View of the White cliffs of Dover from France Dover’s main communications artery, the A2 road replicates two former routes, connecting the town with Canterbury.
A 30-year-old Dover Township woman, a 30-year-old Chatham man, a 42-year-old Chatham man and a 54-year-old Chatham man, were charged with five counts of possessing a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking.
Common combinations with dover
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of dover 31×
- in dover 24×
- the dover 16×
- at dover 13×
- dover by 9×
- dover and 8×
- to dover 8×
- from dover 8×
- dover is 7×
- and dover 7×