Foakes is an English word starting with the letter F. With 10+ example sentences you'll see exactly how it works in context.
Foakes in a sentence
Using Foakes
- In the example corpus, foakes often appears in combinations such as: ben foakes, foakes and, and foakes.
Context around Foakes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Foakes
- In this selection, "foakes" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ben, sensing, test, coffee and providing stand out and add context to how "foakes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and ben foakes all contributed and and ben foakes providing batting. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "foakes" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with foakes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
However, Ben Foakes so far has looked good. (8 words)
Pope and Foakes have batted quite well so far. (9 words)
England only 166 in front, with Foakes not batting with the tail. (12 words)
Whether you give Bairstow the gloves again in place of Ben Foakes, whose silky wicketkeeping will be deemed less crucial in home conditions, or look to blood a new keeper/batsmen like Durham’s Ollie Robinson, is for McCullum, Stokes and Rob Key to decide. (45 words)
On weekends, the urban development springs to life and travelers can swing by to visit the farm, grab a flat white at Foakes Coffee Roastery or watch creators at work like Tshepo Mohlala, who makes jeans at his atelier. (39 words)
Foakes made 52 before he was cleaned up by one that kept low, Dan Lawrence was lbw for three while Kemar Roach nicked to slip, with Miles seeming to roll his ankle in celebration at his five-for. (38 words)
Example sentences (18)
Brook, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root and Ben Foakes all contributed with the bat, while James Anderson finished the match with seven wickets and Stuart Broad and Ollie Robinson both took five.
On weekends, the urban development springs to life and travelers can swing by to visit the farm, grab a flat white at Foakes Coffee Roastery or watch creators at work like Tshepo Mohlala, who makes jeans at his atelier.
Root was left to shepherd the tail when Ben Foakes over-balanced against Michael Bracewell’s spin and was stumped lying flat on the ground and he began to enjoy himself.
England only 166 in front, with Foakes not batting with the tail.
England recalled Ben Foakes to keep wicket in India after Jonny Bairstow had the gloves for last summer’s Ashes.
Foakes made 52 before he was cleaned up by one that kept low, Dan Lawrence was lbw for three while Kemar Roach nicked to slip, with Miles seeming to roll his ankle in celebration at his five-for.
Foakes will aim to be back in the runs next week when Surrey begin their Vitality County Championship title defence with a trip to Lancashire, but he acknowledged the uncertainty over his England place provides one dilemma.
He took the wickets of Duckett and Foakes, and England have never looked entirely comfortable against him.
His successor, Smith, is not even first-choice keeper at the Kia Oval – where he serves as understudy to Foakes, but makes the side as a specialist batter.
However, Ben Foakes so far has looked good.
Overnight batsman Ashwin cracked a couple of wonderful boundaries but nicked Anderson behind the stumps to Ben Foakes.
Pope and Foakes have batted quite well so far.
Sensing Foakes was all hard hands, he slipped in a slower one, grabbed the startled return offering, and threw it up in delight.
Whether you give Bairstow the gloves again in place of Ben Foakes, whose silky wicketkeeping will be deemed less crucial in home conditions, or look to blood a new keeper/batsmen like Durham’s Ollie Robinson, is for McCullum, Stokes and Rob Key to decide.
England will not be calling up a replacement for Stokes or Lawrence, with reserves James Bracey and Ben Foakes providing batting cover beyond Crawley.
With first-choice wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow ruled out of the opening Test, Foakes and Jos Buttler will be in contention to take the gloves.
Brook's earlier vision of the play proved influential, and directors have gone further in presenting Lear as (in the words of R. A. Foakes ) "a pathetic senior citizen trapped in a violent and hostile environment".
Foakes and Rickert (1961, xxx) Waith sees this suggestion as especially important insofar as John Dover Wilson and Gary Taylor have shown that the text as it exists in Q1 does seem to indicate editing.
Common combinations with foakes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: