How do you use Goths in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Goths meaning
plural of Goth
Using Goths
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of Goth
- In the example corpus, goths often appears in combinations such as: the goths, goths and, goths were.
Context around Goths
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Goths
- In this selection, "goths" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, roman, alaric, term, invading, floating and themselves stand out and add context to how "goths" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aftermath the goths immediately marched and against the goths a solidus. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "goths" sits close to words such as abhorrent, actuality and belted, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with goths
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Goths have fled the country. (5 words)
I'm not into the goths. (6 words)
Where would that leave the beatniks and the goths? (9 words)
Until the weather dealt a cruel blow to Cruel World, the day had been a gorgeous celebration for young punks, old New Wavers, and goths of indetermination age, there to enjoy the best of the alternative rock that arrived in the late ’70s and ’80s. (45 words)
Venturing out into the band's backyard, between the French windows looking out on the porch and the peeling shed ensconced in thick ivy, one finds artists displaying their works and conversing with the Goths floating from house to yard and yard to house. (44 words)
For example, Jonathan Bate has pointed out that the play begins with Titus returning from a successful ten-year campaign against the Goths, as if at the height of the Roman Empire, but ends with Goths invading Rome, as if at its death. (43 words)
Where would that leave the beatniks and the goths? (9 words)
Example sentences (20)
A "Germanic" Byzantine or Italian author referred to one of the two peoples as the Valagothi, meaning "Roman Goths", and in 469 the Visigoths were called the "Alaric Goths".
For example, Jonathan Bate has pointed out that the play begins with Titus returning from a successful ten-year campaign against the Goths, as if at the height of the Roman Empire, but ends with Goths invading Rome, as if at its death.
War against the Goths A Solidus of Valens The Gothic people in the northern region had supported Procopius in his revolt against Valens, and Valens had learned the Goths were planning an uprising of their own.
Wolfram, 26. Further, Cassiodorus used the term "Goths" to refer only to the Ostrogoths, whom he served, and reserved the geographical term "Visigoths" for the Gallo-Spanish Goths.
People think goths are obsessed with death, but we’re not.
Until the weather dealt a cruel blow to Cruel World, the day had been a gorgeous celebration for young punks, old New Wavers, and goths of indetermination age, there to enjoy the best of the alternative rock that arrived in the late ’70s and ’80s.
In the 16th century, Renaissance artists used it to “mock” the art of the Middle Ages, comparing it to the barbarity of the sack of Rome in 410 by the Goths.
I'm not into the goths.
If there's even a little wind, black clothing is the better choice for those who want to keep cool, like goths who understandably don't like sweating through their make-up.
Venturing out into the band's backyard, between the French windows looking out on the porch and the peeling shed ensconced in thick ivy, one finds artists displaying their works and conversing with the Goths floating from house to yard and yard to house.
Where would that leave the beatniks and the goths?
Goths have fled the country.
According to Socrates, Fritigern and Athanaric were rival leaders of the ( Therving ) Goths.
Additionally, Lucius' army is not composed of Goths, but of Roman centurions loyal to the Andronici.
Aëtius had spent a brief exile among the Huns in 433, and the troops that Attila provided against the Goths and Bagaudae had helped earn him the largely honorary title of magister militum in the west.
After learning of Sebastian's success against the Goths, and of Gratian's victory over the Alamanni, Valens was more than ready for a victory of his own.
Agathias Scholasticus cited by Fauber, L.H. Narses Hammer of the Goths.
All the forms of the Roman administration went on, and the Roman policy and culture had great influence on the Goths themselves.
A lot of historical data of Dacians and Getae were wrongly attributed to Goths.
Ammianus Marcellinus, Historiae, book 31, chapter 13. Aftermath The Goths immediately marched to the city of Adrianople and attempted to take it; Ammianus gives a detailed account of their failure.
Common combinations with goths
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the goths 77×
- goths and 13×
- goths were 6×
- goths as 5×
- goths had 5×
- goths in 5×
- goths who 4×
- of goths 4×
- with goths 3×
- goths to 3×