Evened is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Evened in a sentence
Related words
Evened meaning
simple past and past participle of even
Using Evened
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of even
- In the example corpus, evened often appears in combinations such as: evened the, evened out, evened up.
Context around Evened
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 6 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Evened
- In this selection, "evened" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mountcastle, grimaldi, seattle and things stand out and add context to how "evened" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2015 seattle evened its record and after mountcastle evened the score. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "evened" sits close to words such as abducting, accentuate and accomplishes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with evened
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It got evened out,’” he said. (6 words)
Cole noted that evened their series at 2-2. (9 words)
Early in the second, Grimaldi evened things at 1-1. (10 words)
The first game saw the Bears sprint to a 4-2 lead on a co-stuff from Arnold and Noah Duffield, and led 6-5 on a kill from Arnold, but the Bulldogs evened it at 8-8 on a winner from Jurman. (43 words)
Vegas evened the score at 10:08 when the puck went off Dallas defenseman Esa Lindell's skate and Stone buried the 5-on-3 power-play goal that came off an unusual double penalty on the Stars — their only two infractions. (42 words)
After Mountcastle evened the score, Danny Coulombe allowed a home run in the top of the seventh, but Mullins — who preceded the solo shot with a diving catch behind Coulombe — sparked the Orioles’ rally in the bottom half. (38 words)
Is it just statistical artifact, because any one family has relatively so few children that even large departures from a 1:1 ratio get evened out across many families? (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
After Mountcastle evened the score, Danny Coulombe allowed a home run in the top of the seventh, but Mullins — who preceded the solo shot with a diving catch behind Coulombe — sparked the Orioles’ rally in the bottom half.
Early in the second, Grimaldi evened things at 1-1.
In 2015, Seattle evened its record at 2-2 before falling again to 2-4.
It got evened out,’” he said.
Later in the stanza, Belleville evened the score at the 9:24 mark as Jake Lucchini found the back of the net with a beautifully placed shot on the man advantage to force extra time.
Mmoh evened the tiebreak (first to seven points) at 5–5 with a booming serve Wolf returned way long, then gave it back with a double fault.
Riley Mahan evened the score, 3-3, in the sixth inning with an RBI double against Erie reliever Tim Naugton.
September 2, 2023 (San Diego) - The Padres evened the series with the Giants last night.
The Petes evened it with 22 seconds left in the second on a five-on-three advantage as J.R. Avon redirected Owen Beck’s pass.
The Rangers evened the best-of-seven series 3-3 and will try to reach their first World Series since 2011 by winning on the road again on Monday.
They evened the score because their other guys were better than Denver’s other guys.
Vegas evened the score at 10:08 when the puck went off Dallas defenseman Esa Lindell's skate and Stone buried the 5-on-3 power-play goal that came off an unusual double penalty on the Stars — their only two infractions.
CNN political commentator also pointed to Covid as the thing that “upset the apple cart” and argued it changed how crime was dealt with by police on a daily basis and things still haven’t evened out.
Cole noted that evened their series at 2-2.
Is it just statistical artifact, because any one family has relatively so few children that even large departures from a 1:1 ratio get evened out across many families?
Kreider evened it at 14:39 of the second when he redirected Adam Fox’s pinpoint pass into the net and beat Rittich on his short side.
La Mera Mera evened the score more recently by prevailing on in April this year.
That was the balance that evened it out, because they were such bright lights for me.
The final period of play would be an exciting one with the score evened at two, leading to packed Magness Arena fans on the edge of their seats for the majority of the final period.
The first game saw the Bears sprint to a 4-2 lead on a co-stuff from Arnold and Noah Duffield, and led 6-5 on a kill from Arnold, but the Bulldogs evened it at 8-8 on a winner from Jurman.
Common combinations with evened
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- evened the 31×
- evened out 9×
- evened up 6×
- evened it 5×
- evened their 4×
- evened things 3×
- that evened 3×
- evened its 2×
- padres evened 2×
- evened at 2×