On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Elihu. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Elihu in a sentence
Elihu meaning
- A male given name.
- Various male characters in the Bible; see Wikipedia.
- A secret society at Yale University.
Using Elihu
- The main meaning on this page is: A male given name. | Various male characters in the Bible; see Wikipedia. | A secret society at Yale University.
- In the example corpus, elihu often appears in combinations such as: elihu root, elihu thomson.
Context around Elihu
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 2 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Elihu
- In this selection, "elihu" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, lodge, war, born, root, thomson and nivens stand out and add context to how "elihu" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include built by elihu thomson in and cabot lodge elihu root nicholas. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "elihu" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with elihu
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Elihu Baldwin, the first president of the college, served from 1835 until 1840. (13 words)
History One of the first electronic oscillators was an oscillating arc built by Elihu Thomson in 1892. (17 words)
D. in American Studies from Yale, named the African-American Atlanta police chief in A Man in Full Elihu Yale. (20 words)
On the mother's side, the Ingersoll line was connected with Jonathan Edwards and from Edwards on there would be a new independent Parsons line because his eldest daughter Sarah married Elihu Parsons on June 11, 1750. (37 words)
By 1901, Secretary of War Elihu Root had formalized the brutality of the war, telling reporters that from then on the U.S. Army would follow a “more rigid policy” in the Philippines. (33 words)
Second among the interventionists were members of our patrician class, like Henry Cabot Lodge, Elihu Root, Nicholas Murray Butler, A. Lawrence Lowell and many Anglophile Southern Senators. (27 words)
Example sentences (10)
Second among the interventionists were members of our patrician class, like Henry Cabot Lodge, Elihu Root, Nicholas Murray Butler, A. Lawrence Lowell and many Anglophile Southern Senators.
By 1901, Secretary of War Elihu Root had formalized the brutality of the war, telling reporters that from then on the U.S. Army would follow a “more rigid policy” in the Philippines.
Characters *Sam, born Elihu Nivens, is the classic Heinlein hero, multi-talented, independent, fiercely loyal to friends and an implacable enemy to foes.
D. in American Studies from Yale, named the African-American Atlanta police chief in A Man in Full Elihu Yale.
Elihu Baldwin, the first president of the college, served from 1835 until 1840.
Elihu Thomson published his findings on Edison's new "force", again attributing it to induction, an explanation that Edison accepted.
History One of the first electronic oscillators was an oscillating arc built by Elihu Thomson in 1892.
On the mother's side, the Ingersoll line was connected with Jonathan Edwards and from Edwards on there would be a new independent Parsons line because his eldest daughter Sarah married Elihu Parsons on June 11, 1750.
The three (Elihu is not mentioned) are told to make a burnt offering with Job as their intercessor, "for only to him will I show favour".
The Yale family left Boston and returned to England when Elihu was three years old and he grew up going to school in London.
Common combinations with elihu
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: