Harpies is an English word. Below you'll find 6 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Harpies meaning
plural of harpy
Using Harpies
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of harpy
- In the example corpus, harpies often appears in combinations such as: the harpies.
Context around Harpies
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Harpies
- In this selection, "harpies" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, gore, loathsome, holyhead, away, seized and agree stand out and add context to how "harpies" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and gore harpies and chase the harpies away. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "harpies" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with harpies
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
After Hogwarts, Ginny became a professional Quidditch player for the Holyhead Harpies. (12 words)
Zeus had sent the harpies to steal the food put out for Phineas each day. (15 words)
It can be collected from bushes in the desert of Battahl, or it can be obtained from killing Knackers and Gore Harpies. (22 words)
At their intercession, the harpies agree to stop tormenting the dead souls, and instead receive the true stories of the dead in exchange for leading them again to the upper world. (31 words)
Yet, the council members—like most mind-in-the-cloud liberals—appeared staid and polite, intently listening, as the loathsome harpies seized the microphone during the comment session. (28 words)
Jason took pity on the emaciated king and killed the Harpies when they returned; in other versions, Calais and Zetes chase the harpies away. (24 words)
Example sentences (6)
Jason took pity on the emaciated king and killed the Harpies when they returned; in other versions, Calais and Zetes chase the harpies away.
It can be collected from bushes in the desert of Battahl, or it can be obtained from killing Knackers and Gore Harpies.
Yet, the council members—like most mind-in-the-cloud liberals—appeared staid and polite, intently listening, as the loathsome harpies seized the microphone during the comment session.
After Hogwarts, Ginny became a professional Quidditch player for the Holyhead Harpies.
At their intercession, the harpies agree to stop tormenting the dead souls, and instead receive the true stories of the dead in exchange for leading them again to the upper world.
Zeus had sent the harpies to steal the food put out for Phineas each day.
Common combinations with harpies
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: