Fen is an English word of 3 letters with synonyms like marsh or marshland. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Fen in a sentence
Related words
Fen meaning
- A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.
- Any swamp or mire (especially with negative connotations).
Using Fen
- The main meaning on this page is: A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline. | Any swamp or mire (especially with negative connotations).
- Useful related words include: chinese monetary unit, marsh, marshland, fenland.
- In the example corpus, fen often appears in combinations such as: fen is, the fen, fen and.
Context around Fen
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fen
- In this selection, "fen" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, great, citation, bicker, court, substation and projects stand out and add context to how "fen" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and coe fen is a and and pollardstown fen. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fen" sits close to words such as absentees, accruing and aerosmith, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fen
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Beacon Fen is not the only energy park currently proposed. (10 words)
The Great Fen projects hopes to attract rare bird species such as bitterns. (13 words)
Fen is in high school and has been making puppets for most of their life. (15 words)
Although not much of it exists today, except for what has been revealed at Flag Fen, it's amazing that even a section of this ancient route can still be walked and enjoyed today at a site where there is more history than anyone could ever imagine. (47 words)
In the Orchard Health Group First Division, there were 6-0 wins for Invaders, Holland Fen, Strollers, Nomads and Golfers, while Parthians beat 4-2, leaving the top seven places in the table unchanged. (34 words)
Its design picks up on that of the original screen-wall that once stood in its place. citation Fen Court Beyond Gisborne Court is Fen Court, a 20th-century building partially on stilts. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Its design picks up on that of the original screen-wall that once stood in its place. citation Fen Court Beyond Gisborne Court is Fen Court, a 20th-century building partially on stilts.
Electricity will be sent along two 623km cables to land near Sutton-on-Sea, where a further 68km of cabling will connect it to the Bicker Fen substation.
Holme Fen is also technically an island, although not the kind of island you might expect.
The Great Fen projects hopes to attract rare bird species such as bitterns.
The lane winding into the cornfield is based on Fen Lane, where Constable had often walked as a boy from his own village of East Bergholt to Dedham, where he went to school.
Although not much of it exists today, except for what has been revealed at Flag Fen, it's amazing that even a section of this ancient route can still be walked and enjoyed today at a site where there is more history than anyone could ever imagine.
Beacon Fen is not the only energy park currently proposed.
But, there are some areas of wild fen that managed to survive, one of which is now a designated nature reserve.
Fen is in high school and has been making puppets for most of their life.
He loved the beauty of the prairies, grain crops, planting and growing tree shelters, the rolling farmland of the great plains and the Flakoll Fen where the family picnic area is located.
In the Orchard Health Group First Division, there were 6-0 wins for Invaders, Holland Fen, Strollers, Nomads and Golfers, while Parthians beat 4-2, leaving the top seven places in the table unchanged.
Its conservation work has seen Wicked Fen stay home to rare shrubs, birds and insects.
On your left, you will walk past the Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve, where you might be able to spot some hen harriers, Britain's rarest bird of prey.
Restoration projects are taking place at the Great Fen and conservationists said they would keep creating new habitats so these sorts of beetles could benefit.
The area encompassing Lammas Land, Sheep's Green, and Coe Fen is a particular favourite.
We reach measurement point No. 1, and Cichocki pauses for a bit to describe how the plant life grows in zones as it moves out into the fen on its sphagnum mat base.
A home up for sale near Kildare town has two fantastic amenities nearby – the Curragh Plains and Pollardstown Fen.
And Curran took some time this week to talk all things and Fen with The Mary Sue.
In the end, the Inquisitor used the mark from Fen'harel's orb to throw Corypheus into the Fade and seal it behind him, trapping him within for all eternity.
Suffolk Wildlife Trust (SWT) said construction would lead to the loss of rare fen habitat.
Common combinations with fen
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- fen is 5×
- the fen 5×
- fen and 4×
- fen on 3×
- fen court 2×
- holme fen 2×
- great fen 2×
- fen with 2×
- ai fen 2×
- splashy fen 2×