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Follows is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Follows in a sentence

Related words

Follows | Following | Followed | Follow | Followers | Follower | Followings

Follows meaning

third-person singular simple present indicative of follow

Using Follows

  • The main meaning on this page is: third-person singular simple present indicative of follow
  • In the example corpus, follows often appears in combinations such as: follows the, as follows, that follows.

Context around Follows

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
  • Position in the sentence: 11 start, 7 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

usually 1× months 1× intercalary 1× rodgers 1× film 1× colour 1× webster 1× album 1× adam 1× addiction 1×

Often after:

jonas 2× brady 1× svoboda 1× green 1× four 1×

Sentence patterns with Follows

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

80s and follows a group 1× aaron rodgers follows his shot 1× adam follows it up 1× allin follows up with 1× and he follows her too 1× asset that follows the us 1× beau webster follows his 62 1× defined as follows the update 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a century to 1× a coming of 1× a discovery of 1× a drama centered 1× a fastball special 1× a jordanian specialist 1×

Common sentence endings:

a better life 1× a puffin crossing 1× about magical creatures 1× before by rule 1× end this one 1× feb 5 2023 1×

Words around Follows

Just before it in the word index:

followings 56 following 35.827 followill 2 followership 17 followers 3.027 follower 325

Just after it in the word index:

followup 64 follwing 2 folly 173 folmar 3 folmcoin 3 folmer 9

Similar in corpus frequency:

agencies 5.972 estimated 5.971 appointed 5.968 martin 5.967 professor 5.966 academy 5.957

Corpus analysis for Follows

  • In this selection, "follows" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, usually, months, intercalary, jonas, brady and svoboda stand out and add context to how "follows" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include 80s and follows a group, aaron rodgers follows his shot, film follows and series follows. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "follows" sits close to words such as agencies, estimated and appointed, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with follows

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

A fastball special follows to end this one. (8 words)

King still follows Svoboda on social media – and he follows her, too. (12 words)

A drama centered around drug addiction, follows four characters during their downward spiral. (13 words)

Longer example sentences

According to Christian Giudice’s Hands of Stone, The Life and Legend of Roberto Duran, Buchanan spoke of the fight as follows,” I was no longer world champion, and I was beginning to see how corrupt the sport was. (39 words)

According to the official synopsis, the film follows the true story of a young man, Najeeb, who, in the early 90s, migrates to the Middle East from the lush green shores of Kerala in search of a better life. (39 words)

A Jordanian specialist follows the process of printing posters with pictures of, from left, King Abdullah II, Crown Prince Hussein, Saudi architect Rajwa Alseif and Queen Rania, at a print house in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. (38 words)

Example sentences (20)

Being the guy who follows “the guy” comes with extra pressure, and the guy who follows Brady will face a special level of scrutiny.

King still follows Svoboda on social media – and he follows her, too.

Lovato still follows Jonas’s brothers, Joe and Kevin, on Instagram, and she still follows Jonas on Twitter.

Both the ISO code "SEK" and currency sign "kr" are in common use; the former precedes or follows the value, the latter usually follows it but, especially in the past, it sometimes preceded the value.

The complete months except the intercalary month, queues up from 0 to 10, and the incomplete months follows this queque, to be 11. The intercalary follows the queque number before by rule.

The priors are normally defined as follows: : The update equations can be derived, and look as follows: : The respective numbers of pseudo-observations add the number of actual observations to them.

Aaron Rodgers follows his shot onto the 16th green of the Pebble Beach Golf Links during the third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023.

According to Christian Giudice’s Hands of Stone, The Life and Legend of Roberto Duran, Buchanan spoke of the fight as follows,” I was no longer world champion, and I was beginning to see how corrupt the sport was.

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According to the official synopsis, the film follows the true story of a young man, Najeeb, who, in the early 90s, migrates to the Middle East from the lush green shores of Kerala in search of a better life.

According to the survey, the hardest question on the driving theory test asked motorists what colour follows green at a puffin crossing.

A century to Charlie Wakim and 87 to Caleb Jewell anchors Tasmania’s first innings while Beau Webster follows his 62 in the first innings with four wickets in South Australia’s second innings.

A coming-of-age series, is set in the ‘80s and follows a group of friends residing in Bogota, the capital city of Columbia and one of the largest cities in the world.

Across 14 tracks, the album follows a unique story of love with a little vulnerability and plenty of sexually suggestive lyrics.

Adam follows it up with a Crocodile Dundee double feature and Friedman shows a video of kangaroos fighting and promises the kangaroo kick is their secret weapon.

A Discovery of Witches’ Season 3 follows a young and determined Diana Bishop (Palmer) as she attempts to unravel the secrets that the book, Ashmole 782, holds about magical creatures.

A drama centered around drug addiction, follows four characters during their downward spiral.

A fastball special follows to end this one.

A Jordanian specialist follows the process of printing posters with pictures of, from left, King Abdullah II, Crown Prince Hussein, Saudi architect Rajwa Alseif and Queen Rania, at a print house in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, May 31, 2023.

Allin follows up with a senton through the ropes to crash into Matt Taven.

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Common combinations with follows

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "follows" in a sentence?
An example: "Being the guy who follows “the guy” comes with extra pressure, and the guy who follows Brady will face a special level of scrutiny." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "follows" from authentic English texts.
What does "follows" mean?
Follows means: third-person singular simple present indicative of follow
How many example sentences with "follows" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "follows", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.