Epigraphs is an English word. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Epigraphs meaning
plural of epigraph
Using Epigraphs
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of epigraph
- In the example corpus, epigraphs often appears in combinations such as: as epigraphs.
Context around Epigraphs
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Epigraphs
- In this selection, "epigraphs" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include dunbar as epigraphs for the and in some epigraphs. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "epigraphs" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with epigraphs
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Epigraphy is the relatively young science of historical inscriptions or epigraphs. (11 words)
The place is also designated as Devara Beḷgoḷa "White Pond of the God" and Gommaṭapuram "city of Gommaṭa" in some epigraphs. (21 words)
Sometimes the lyrics serve as epigraphs to chapters (perhaps in a pop-culture nod to W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1903 classic “The Souls of Black Folk”). (28 words)
The random encounter here is between two different kinds of text: there’s the story of a marriage breaking down, and there are lots of quotations – presented as epigraphs – from Keats. (31 words)
Composer William Grant Still used excerpts from four dialect poems by Dunbar as epigraphs for the four movements of his Symphony No. 1 in A-flat, "Afro-American" (1930). (29 words)
Sometimes the lyrics serve as epigraphs to chapters (perhaps in a pop-culture nod to W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1903 classic “The Souls of Black Folk”). (28 words)
Example sentences (5)
Epigraphy is the relatively young science of historical inscriptions or epigraphs.
Sometimes the lyrics serve as epigraphs to chapters (perhaps in a pop-culture nod to W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1903 classic “The Souls of Black Folk”).
The random encounter here is between two different kinds of text: there’s the story of a marriage breaking down, and there are lots of quotations – presented as epigraphs – from Keats.
Composer William Grant Still used excerpts from four dialect poems by Dunbar as epigraphs for the four movements of his Symphony No. 1 in A-flat, "Afro-American" (1930).
The place is also designated as Devara Beḷgoḷa "White Pond of the God" and Gommaṭapuram "city of Gommaṭa" in some epigraphs.
Common combinations with epigraphs
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- as epigraphs 3×