Gehry is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Gehry in a sentence
Gehry meaning
A surname.
Using Gehry
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname.
- In the example corpus, gehry often appears in combinations such as: frank gehry, gehry has, gehry is.
Context around Gehry
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gehry
- In this selection, "gehry" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, frank, 2013, represent, designed, nearly and holds stand out and add context to how "gehry" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a frank gehry designed building and architect frank gehry has 250. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gehry" sits close to words such as abra, accies and accommodative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gehry
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I despise the work of Frank Gehry. (7 words)
Gehry holds dual citizenship in Canada and the United States. (10 words)
In many of his designs, Gehry is inspired by fish. (10 words)
But the wildest and, from this distance, most ridiculous project of those heady days was a new Guggenheim Museum, a tangle of suspended metal ribbons designed by Frank Gehry in the delirious days after his Bilbao institution opened. (38 words)
In October 2013, Gehry was appointed joint architect with Foster + Partners to design the "High Street" phase of the development of Battersea Power Station in London, England, which will represent Gehry's first project in London. (36 words)
In 2014, Gehry was asked to design an exhibition on the work of Alexander Calder at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Resnick Pavilion, again invited by the museum's curator Stephanie Barron. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
In October 2013, Gehry was appointed joint architect with Foster + Partners to design the "High Street" phase of the development of Battersea Power Station in London, England, which will represent Gehry's first project in London.
I despise the work of Frank Gehry.
The Dancing House, inaugurated in 1996, was born in an area heavily bombed during the Second World War from the idea of two architects Frank Gehry and Vlado Milunić.
This iconic art museum, designed by architect Frank Gehry, has 250 contemporary works.
There will be just 150 decanters individually numbered with Gehry’s signature, each costing $17,000.
West 42nd Street is home to many Off Broadway theaters, including Playwrights Horizons and Signature Theatre Company (in a Frank Gehry-designed building).
Battery Park City flowered; yuppies priced out of TriBeCa came down to Wall Street; a new Guggenheim, designed by a fresh-from-Bilbao Frank Gehry, nearly arose by South Street Seaport.
But the wildest and, from this distance, most ridiculous project of those heady days was a new Guggenheim Museum, a tangle of suspended metal ribbons designed by Frank Gehry in the delirious days after his Bilbao institution opened.
Continually working between given circumstances and unanticipated materializations, Gehry's style works to disrupt expectations.
Dubbed the "Frank Behry", it features Strawberries & Cream gelato and snickerdoodle cookies. citation citation Gehry is also known for his sometimes cantankerous personality.
Frank Gehry has designed several well-known houses in Venice, including the Jane Spiller House (completed 1979) and the Norton House (completed 1984) on Venice Beach.
Gehry has previously collaborated with luxury jewelry company Tiffany & Co creating six distinct jewelry collections: the Orchid collection, Fish collection, Torque collection, Equus collection, Axis collection and Fold collection.
Gehry holds dual citizenship in Canada and the United States.
Gehry is sometimes associated with what is known as the "Los Angeles School" or the "Santa Monica School" of architecture.
He began a hockey league in his office, FOG (which stands for Frank Owen Gehry), though he no longer plays with them.
However, in recent years, some of Gehry's more prominent designs have failed to go forward.
In 1998, "The Art of the Motorcycle" exhibition opened at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum with its installation designed by Gehry.
In 1999, Gates donated $20 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the construction of a computer laboratory named the "William H. Gates Building" that was designed by architect Frank O. Gehry.
In 2014, Gehry was asked to design an exhibition on the work of Alexander Calder at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Resnick Pavilion, again invited by the museum's curator Stephanie Barron.
In many of his designs, Gehry is inspired by fish.
Common combinations with gehry
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- frank gehry 9×
- gehry has 3×
- gehry is 3×
- gehry was 2×
- citation gehry 2×
- in gehry 2×
- gehry designed 2×