On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Harrying. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Harrying meaning
present participle and gerund of harry
Using Harrying
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of harry
- In the example corpus, harrying often appears in combinations such as: the harrying, harrying of, and harrying.
Context around Harrying
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Harrying
- In this selection, "harrying" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, continually, too and fire stand out and add context to how "harrying" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include called the harrying of the and covering and harrying fire also. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "harrying" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with harrying
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Did plenty of running and harrying too. (7 words)
Covering and harrying fire also don’t provide benefits against you. (11 words)
Witzin died in battle and Charlemagne avenged him by harrying the Eastphalians on the Elbe. (15 words)
The inhabitants of the North and Scotland never warmed to the Normans following the Harrying of the North (1069–1070), where William, according to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle utterly "ravaged and laid waste that shire". (35 words)
These were destroyed in 1069 and rebuilt by William about the time of his ravaging Northumbria in what is called the " Harrying of the North " where he destroyed everything from York to Durham. (33 words)
He ruthlessly put down the various risings, culminating in the Harrying of the North in late 1069 and early 1070 that devastated parts of northern England. (26 words)
Example sentences (11)
Did plenty of running and harrying too.
Reform, a party riven with faction practically as much as Center, may find an era of silence works better in this case than continually harrying.
Harrying and pressing are just as crucial, as well as being able to explode on the counter-attack.
Covering and harrying fire also don’t provide benefits against you.
He ruthlessly put down the various risings, culminating in the Harrying of the North in late 1069 and early 1070 that devastated parts of northern England.
In 1072, with the Harrying of the North completed and his position again secure, William of Normandy came north with an army and a fleet.
The Harrying of Buchan in 1308 was ordered by Bruce to make sure all Comyn family support was extinguished.
The inhabitants of the North and Scotland never warmed to the Normans following the Harrying of the North (1069–1070), where William, according to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle utterly "ravaged and laid waste that shire".
These were destroyed in 1069 and rebuilt by William about the time of his ravaging Northumbria in what is called the " Harrying of the North " where he destroyed everything from York to Durham.
They tried to take back York, but the Normans burnt it before they could. citation What followed was the Harrying of the North ordered by William.
Witzin died in battle and Charlemagne avenged him by harrying the Eastphalians on the Elbe.
Common combinations with harrying
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the harrying 6×
- harrying of 6×
- and harrying 2×