Hitchens is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hitchens meaning
A surname originating as a patronymic.
Using Hitchens
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname originating as a patronymic.
- In the example corpus, hitchens often appears in combinations such as: christopher hitchens, peter hitchens, hitchens and.
Context around Hitchens
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hitchens
- In this selection, "hitchens" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, christopher, peter, relieved, died, defending and get stand out and add context to how "hitchens" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2011 christopher hitchens tore into and a chris hitchens impersonation and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hitchens" sits close to words such as abdelaziz, absolutist and accrual, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hitchens
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
There is no Stage V as Hitchens said. (8 words)
I’ll never forget reading Christopher Hitchens’ brutal takedown of Kissinger. (11 words)
Celebs including Tom Rosenthal, ex-MP Neil Parish and the Mail's Peter Hitchens get. (15 words)
Here’s something for sure: Hitchens would have fumed at the latest moves out of the White House, a slapdash but justified retreat in Syria that saw Kurdish partners of Washington pelting U.S. convoys with rotten vegetables. (38 words)
Set aside Yglesias’s poor taste in implying that he is relieved Hitchens died of cancer: it is impossible to imagine Hitchens defending, much less supporting, the anti-intellectual con artistry of Donald Trump. (34 words)
Also in 1994 Mr. Amis left his first wife, Antonia Phillips, for Ms. Fonseca, a younger woman who Mr. Hitchens said in one interview was being pursued by Mr. Rushdie, among others. (32 words)
I try to group it roughly by category — essays, memoirs, religion, etc. — but where do you put your Christopher Hitchens essay collections in that scheme? (25 words)
Example sentences (20)
Set aside Yglesias’s poor taste in implying that he is relieved Hitchens died of cancer: it is impossible to imagine Hitchens defending, much less supporting, the anti-intellectual con artistry of Donald Trump.
Also in 1994 Mr. Amis left his first wife, Antonia Phillips, for Ms. Fonseca, a younger woman who Mr. Hitchens said in one interview was being pursued by Mr. Rushdie, among others.
Andrew Alvarez, Elijah Gonzalez and Israel Bermudez had sacks while Brodie Hitchens and Trent Vallejos added interceptions.
Celebs including Tom Rosenthal, ex-MP Neil Parish and the Mail's Peter Hitchens get.
I’ll never forget reading Christopher Hitchens’ brutal takedown of Kissinger.
In a memoir published shortly before his death in 2011, Christopher Hitchens tore into the concept, which he dated to the late 1960s.
Brett Hitchens writes: A federal government surplus means that money is being withdrawn from the private sector.
Christopher Hitchens and Alexander Cockburn both told the story of how Chomsky once went to the dentist and was informed that he was grinding his teeth in his sleep.
Key among these, as Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, an academic researching terrorism and radicalisation, notes in a recent report on “Blasphemy Extremism”, was the Muslim Action Forum (MAF).
Lawrence Wright writing this incredible piece about Scientology, Reading Christopher Hitchens or Richard Dawkins’s work from an atheist perspective.
A lot of my character stuff, I was trying to do a Chris Hitchens impersonation, and I completely forgot that I was doing that until I saw my notes.
I try to group it roughly by category — essays, memoirs, religion, etc. — but where do you put your Christopher Hitchens essay collections in that scheme?
The majority are of the early 20th century, including some by artists of national importance – Burra and Nash, who lived in Rye, also Grant, Bell, Hitchens, Gill, Piper, Sutherland, Cuming and others.
There is no Stage V as Hitchens said.
As Peter Hitchens said - hardly anyone would consider privatising the navy a good idea, so the idea that some things are best provided by.
Here’s something for sure: Hitchens would have fumed at the latest moves out of the White House, a slapdash but justified retreat in Syria that saw Kurdish partners of Washington pelting U.S. convoys with rotten vegetables.
I recall the late Christopher Hitchens's defense of free speech and his condemnation of the so-called "hate speech" laws in Canada.
It's like if Christopher Hitchens publicly stated that there is a god after all.
Most of last year Hitchens looked lost in Bob Sutton’s system, reacting so slowly he may as well have not even been on the field some plays.
As Hitchens understood better than almost any of his contemporaries, religion endorses some of the most fanatical, adulterating and murderous behavior known to primates.
Common combinations with hitchens
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- christopher hitchens 11×
- peter hitchens 6×
- hitchens and 5×
- hitchens said 3×
- as hitchens 2×