Initial is an English word with synonyms like first or letter. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Initial in a sentence
Related words
Initial meaning
- Chronologically first, early; of or pertaining to the beginning, cause or origin.
- Spatially first, placed at the beginning, in the first position; especially said of the first letter of a word.
Using Initial
- The main meaning on this page is: Chronologically first, early; of or pertaining to the beginning, cause or origin. | Spatially first, placed at the beginning, in the first position; especially said of the first letter of a word.
- Useful related words include: first, letter, alphabetic character, sign.
- In the example corpus, initial often appears in combinations such as: the initial, an initial, its initial.
Context around Initial
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 14 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Initial
- In this selection, "initial" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, statistics, watched, few, guess, public and period stand out and add context to how "initial" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include appear for initial appearance on, address the initial remedial works, initial public, initial release and initial guess. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "initial" sits close to words such as hotel, cancer and identified, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with initial
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He said: “This initial ask is for £500,000 to address the initial remedial works required. (16 words)
It's relatively the same size as our initial, maybe even bigger than our initial OEM series production win. (19 words)
It's a far cry from the initial nest of the fifty initial hornets that the queen produces initially (initially). (20 words)
However, it's important to note that they do fade anywhere from 30-50 percent after the initial application, so for optimal results, returning for a touch-up session one to three months after the initial procedure is important. (39 words)
Instead, the Staff will issue a Delist Determination Letter and the Company will have an opportunity to request a new hearing with the initial Hearing Panel or a newly convened Hearing Panel if the initial Panel is unavailable. (38 words)
A growing drumbeat of criticism from around the world over his government’s initial handling of the pandemic, and a souring relationship with the U.S. that threatens to wreck an initial trade deal with President Donald Trump. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
After this initial rough draft, the architect can create an initial hull design, a general profile and an initial overview of the ship's propulsion.
Observe that the Babylonian method converges quickly regardless of the initial guess, whereas Method X converges extremely slowly with initial guess 1.4 and diverges for initial guess 1.42.
It's relatively the same size as our initial, maybe even bigger than our initial OEM series production win.
The appointment will be for an initial period of 12 months, any continuation after the initial period is terminable upon the election of the Board.
Another big talking point was the disappointment from a number of objectors in regards to the errors in the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ initial projections of 2028 voter enrolment which affected their initial submissions.
He said: “This initial ask is for £500,000 to address the initial remedial works required.
However, it's important to note that they do fade anywhere from 30-50 percent after the initial application, so for optimal results, returning for a touch-up session one to three months after the initial procedure is important.
Instead, the Staff will issue a Delist Determination Letter and the Company will have an opportunity to request a new hearing with the initial Hearing Panel or a newly convened Hearing Panel if the initial Panel is unavailable.
Meinders is hoping to present the initial plans to the county supervisors to give them an idea of the initial scope of the project.
The initial shock of the invasion faded into familiarity then fatigue as the world watched initial Russian gains and a stunning Ukrainian counteroffensive in late 2022 slow into grinding trench warfare.
A growing drumbeat of criticism from around the world over his government’s initial handling of the pandemic, and a souring relationship with the U.S. that threatens to wreck an initial trade deal with President Donald Trump.
Happiest Minds Technologies Limited will open the initial public offer of its equity shares (“Equity Shares” and such initial public offer, the “Offer”) on September 7, 2020.
On programs where initial production costs are high, such as aircraft programs, it does make sense to amortize costs over a wider number of productions than just on the few initial productions.
Experts suggest one should get a home loan transferred if they are in the initial 4-5 years of the loan because the interest component is higher that the initial years.
It's a far cry from the initial nest of the fifty initial hornets that the queen produces initially (initially).
She was also wanted by Jefferson County for failure to appear for initial appearance on possession of controlled substance second offense, and failure to appear for initial appearance on original charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.
The initial phase of the decline will be completed in 2019 providing access for exploration drilling, development drilling and initial production development.
A fire-scorched duralumin Hindenburg cross brace salvaged from the crash site The exact location of the initial fire, its source of ignition, and the initial source of fuel remain subjects of debate.
Andrew Smith argued that the financial industry’s handling of initial public offerings tended to benefit the banks and initial investors rather than the companies.
Any limit of regular ordinals is a limit of initial ordinals and thus is also initial but need not be regular.
Phrases with initial
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with initial
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: