How do you use Durning in a sentence? See 7 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Durning meaning
A surname.
Using Durning
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname.
- In the example corpus, durning often appears in combinations such as: charles durning, durning the.
Context around Durning
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Durning
- In this selection, "durning" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, charles, war, ball, used, quickly and landed stand out and add context to how "durning" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include actor charles durning landed on and and charles durning the bar. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "durning" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with durning
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Opposite Nick Nolte, Dabney Coleman and Charles Durning, the bar was set pretty high. (14 words)
Actor Charles Durning landed on Normandy and was shot three times, later survived the Malmedy Massacre. (16 words)
After the war, Durning used dance as physical therapy to strengthen his badly injured leg and speech therapy to smooth out a stutter that had developed. (26 words)
When actor Michael Dorsey transforms himself into Dorothy Michaels in a desperate attempt to get work, complications arise as he falls for a female friend (Jessica Lange) and her father (Charles Durning) falls for him. (35 words)
But a determined reporter (Jennifer Salt) who witnessed the killing from afar teams up with a P.I. (Charles Durning) to prove to police that what she saw was real. (30 words)
Mar 4, 2023; College Station, Texas, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide forward Brandon Miller (24) dribbles the ball durning the first quarter against the Alabama Crimson Tide at Reed Arena. (29 words)
Example sentences (7)
After the war, Durning used dance as physical therapy to strengthen his badly injured leg and speech therapy to smooth out a stutter that had developed.
Mar 4, 2023; College Station, Texas, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide forward Brandon Miller (24) dribbles the ball durning the first quarter against the Alabama Crimson Tide at Reed Arena.
When the female passenger seated next to Z.B. awoke, she saw Durning quickly remove his hand from the girl’s upper thigh, the suit states.
Opposite Nick Nolte, Dabney Coleman and Charles Durning, the bar was set pretty high.
Actor Charles Durning landed on Normandy and was shot three times, later survived the Malmedy Massacre.
But a determined reporter (Jennifer Salt) who witnessed the killing from afar teams up with a P.I. (Charles Durning) to prove to police that what she saw was real.
When actor Michael Dorsey transforms himself into Dorothy Michaels in a desperate attempt to get work, complications arise as he falls for a female friend (Jessica Lange) and her father (Charles Durning) falls for him.
Common combinations with durning
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: