On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Halifax. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Halifax in a sentence
Halifax meaning
- An industrial town in West Yorkshire, England, 20km south-west of Leeds.
- A civil parish of Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
- A regional municipality, the capital city of Nova Scotia, Canada.
Synonyms of Halifax
Using Halifax
- The main meaning on this page is: An industrial town in West Yorkshire, England, 20km south-west of Leeds. | A civil parish of Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. | A regional municipality, the capital city of Nova Scotia, Canada.
- Useful related words include: provincial capital.
- In the example corpus, halifax often appears in combinations such as: in halifax, the halifax, halifax town.
Context around Halifax
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 18 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Halifax
- In this selection, "halifax" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 31.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, stadium, 200, large, regional, town and wildfire stand out and add context to how "halifax" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 45 of halifax is scheduled and a large halifax bound container. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "halifax" sits close to words such as contracting, definitive and elevation, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with halifax
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
FC Halifax Town v Oxford City at The Shay Stadium, Halifax. (11 words)
The play opens in Halifax in 1917 with the Halifax explosion, which killed close to 1,800 people. (18 words)
A section of Spring Garden Road in downtown Halifax was shut down on Tuesday afternoon after a Halifax Transit bus struck two pedestrians. (23 words)
HALIFAX — An offshore tug and supply vessel is en route to a large Halifax-bound container ship burning 1,500 kilometres off the city's coast with plans to tow the vessel to its final destination, the U.S. Coast Guard said Sunday. (43 words)
HALIFAX — A Halifax judge has denied a man's request for a paternity test on a young teen, saying the process may be too distressing for the boy who has health issues and has grown up thinking another man is his biological father. (43 words)
Daniel Desmond Crowder, 45, of Halifax, is scheduled to appear in Halifax provincial court Thursday to face charges of uttering threats to cause damage to property, failure to appear in court and three counts of breach of probation. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
At 1:14 a.m., Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency along with Halifax Regional Police responded to reports of a fire at 32 Quartz Dr. in Halifax.
FC Halifax Town v Oxford City at The Shay Stadium, Halifax.
HALIFAX - As volunteer firefighter Mark Zawidzki battled eye-stinging smoke and flying embers to save homes from the Halifax wildfire, he realized its flames were headed to a neighbouring subdivision — and his own residence.
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's government is inserting itself into the process of approving residential developments in Halifax, saying it needs to create a fast-track system to deal with housing shortages.
The play opens in Halifax in 1917 with the Halifax explosion, which killed close to 1,800 people.
A flight from St. John’s to Halifax had problems with its landing gear and caught fire while landing at Halifax Stanfield International Airport Saturday night.
HALIFAX – Candidates running to be Halifax’s next mayor are fighting apathy and a lack of public engagement with municipal politics, experts and candidates say.
Halifax Filmmaker James Mellor returns from the International Sports Film Festival in Slovenia with a win for Rugby Town, a documentary film celebrating 150 years of Rugby League in Halifax.
Halifax responded to ask if the cash machines they were referring to in the Yorkshire seaside town were attached to one of their branches or owned by Halifax, and if they had reported the issue previously.
The Halifax Mooseheads were back in action Friday night, travelling to Cape Breton to take on the Eagles at the Centre 200. Halifax was coming off a 4-0 home loss to the Shawinigan Cataractes and looking.
Daniel Desmond Crowder, 45, of Halifax, is scheduled to appear in Halifax provincial court Thursday to face charges of uttering threats to cause damage to property, failure to appear in court and three counts of breach of probation.
HALIFAX — An offshore tug and supply vessel is en route to a large Halifax-bound container ship burning 1,500 kilometres off the city's coast with plans to tow the vessel to its final destination, the U.S. Coast Guard said Sunday.
HALIFAX – Canada’s defence minister says he doesn’t see China as an adversary as a security conference in Halifax this weekend prepares to focus heavily on the Asian superpower.
Halifax’s water utility is proposing spending millions to speed up the replacement of its customers’ lead service lines, citing Star Halifax’s and Global News’ Tainted Water investigation as a catalyst for action.
A section of Spring Garden Road in downtown Halifax was shut down on Tuesday afternoon after a Halifax Transit bus struck two pedestrians.
HALIFAX — A Halifax judge has denied a man's request for a paternity test on a young teen, saying the process may be too distressing for the boy who has health issues and has grown up thinking another man is his biological father.
HALIFAX — A national prisoners' advocate is praising a 20-day peaceful protest by inmates at a Halifax jail as a rare and effective tactic that sets an example for similar efforts at the country's provincial lockups.
HALIFAX — A publication ban has been placed on the names of two undercover police officers who may testify in a Halifax woman's bid for compensation for marijuana plants she says police destroyed.
HALIFAX – Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer reiterated his pledge not to reopen the abortion debate, hours before party members voted to uphold the existing policy at the Tories’ national convention in Halifax on Saturday.
Halifax Fire and Halifax Regional Police were called to Quality Concrete on MacDonald Avenue at around 3:20 p.m. AT., after several people called 911 to say they heard a loud explosion.
Common combinations with halifax
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in halifax 50×
- the halifax 26×
- halifax town 16×
- at halifax 14×
- halifax and 14×
- of halifax 12×
- halifax regional 11×
- halifax on 8×
- fc halifax 6×
- halifax mooseheads 6×