Explore Gissing through 6 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Gissing meaning
- A surname
- A small village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM1485).
Using Gissing
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname | A small village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM1485).
Context around Gissing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gissing
- In this selection, "gissing" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, vera, landslides and andrew stand out and add context to how "gissing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include andrew gissing from risk and by vera gissing who escaped. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gissing" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gissing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Another factor requiring more research is the risk of tsunamis produced by underwater landslides, Gissing said. (16 words)
Andrew Gissing from Risk Frontiers said the results reflect the nature of bushfire activity within the state. (17 words)
In Gissing's work, Reardon's efforts to produce high quality writing put him in conflict with another character, who takes a more commercial approach. (25 words)
San Jose Mercury News, November 8, 1993 She received rave reviews playing Ruby Lee Gissing, a young woman trying to make a new life for herself, and it was this performance that would launch her career as an actress. (39 words)
Before reciting the memorial prayer for martyrs of the Holocaust, Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg read an extract from the Pearls Of Childhood by Vera Gissing, who escaped to Britain from Czechoslovakia in 1939. (32 words)
Ennio Flaiano, the film's co-screenwriter and creator of Paparazzo, explained that he took the name from Signor Paparazzo, a character in George Gissing 's novel By the Ionian Sea (1901). (32 words)
Example sentences (6)
Before reciting the memorial prayer for martyrs of the Holocaust, Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg read an extract from the Pearls Of Childhood by Vera Gissing, who escaped to Britain from Czechoslovakia in 1939.
Another factor requiring more research is the risk of tsunamis produced by underwater landslides, Gissing said.
Andrew Gissing from Risk Frontiers said the results reflect the nature of bushfire activity within the state.
Ennio Flaiano, the film's co-screenwriter and creator of Paparazzo, explained that he took the name from Signor Paparazzo, a character in George Gissing 's novel By the Ionian Sea (1901).
In Gissing's work, Reardon's efforts to produce high quality writing put him in conflict with another character, who takes a more commercial approach.
San Jose Mercury News, November 8, 1993 She received rave reviews playing Ruby Lee Gissing, a young woman trying to make a new life for herself, and it was this performance that would launch her career as an actress.