Kakhovka is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Kakhovka in a sentence
Kakhovka meaning
- A port city, the administrative centre of Kakhovka urban hromada, Kakhovka Raion, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1492.
- A raion of Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, established in 1923, significantly enlarged in July 2020. Administrative centre: Nova Kakhovka.
Using Kakhovka
- The main meaning on this page is: A port city, the administrative centre of Kakhovka urban hromada, Kakhovka Raion, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1492. | A raion of Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, established in 1923, significantly enlarged in July 2020. Administrative centre: Nova Kakhovka. | A port city, the administrative centre of Kakhovka urban hromada, Kakhovka Raion, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1492.
- In the example corpus, kakhovka often appears in combinations such as: kakhovka dam, the kakhovka, nova kakhovka.
Context around Kakhovka
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 10 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Kakhovka
- In this selection, "kakhovka" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nova, novaya, dam, reservoir and hydroelectric stand out and add context to how "kakhovka" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include the nova kakhovka dam breached and at the kakhovka hydroelectric power. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "kakhovka" sits close to words such as abdulrasheed, abhinav and aboriginals, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with kakhovka
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Who blew up the Kakhovka dam? (6 words)
Shocked by the unprecedented attack of the Nova Kakhovka dam. (10 words)
Kherson city is about 60 kilometres downstream from the Kakhovka dam. (11 words)
The island neighborhood was one residential area in the direct slipstream of Tuesday's catastrophe, which experts said was expected to play out over days as pent-up waters from the Kakhovka reservoir wash their way unhindered toward the Black Sea. (41 words)
A local resident speaks on her mobile phone on an embankment of the Dnipro river, which flooded after the Nova Kakhovka dam breached, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kherson, Ukraine June 6, 2023. (35 words)
Floodwaters are receding following the collapse of the Kakhovka dam, but debris washed along the Dnipro river is turning Odesa’s Black Sea coastline into “a garbage dump and animal cemetery,” according to Ukrainian authorities. (35 words)
Who blew up the Kakhovka dam? (6 words)
Example sentences (20)
A local resident speaks on her mobile phone on an embankment of the Dnipro river, which flooded after the Nova Kakhovka dam breached, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kherson, Ukraine June 6, 2023.
A satellite image shows the overview of the damage on the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine on Tuesday, June 6th, 2023.
A Tampa-based nonprofit is on the ground in Kherson, Ukraine, rescuing residents impacted by the collapse of the Kakhovka dam.
A woman is evacuated from a flooded neighborhood in Kherson, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 7, 2023 after the walls of the Kakhovka dam collapsed.
A woman measures the water level on a flooded street, after the Nova Kakhovka dam breached, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kherson, Ukraine June 6, 2023.
Floodwaters are receding following the collapse of the Kakhovka dam, but debris washed along the Dnipro river is turning Odesa’s Black Sea coastline into “a garbage dump and animal cemetery,” according to Ukrainian authorities.
In February, water levels were so low that many feared a meltdown at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, whose cooling systems are supplied with water from the Kakhovka reservoir held up by the dam.
Kherson city is about 60 kilometres downstream from the Kakhovka dam.
Maxar said the images of more than 2,500 square km (965 square miles) between Nova Kakhovka and the Dniprovska Gulf southwest of Kherson city on the Black Sea, showed numerous towns and villages flooded.
Meanwhile, conditions on the ground have only worsened with the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in a Russian-occupied area of Ukraine, which has led to the evacuation of thousands of people.
Meanwhile, Russia has come under fire for seemingly moving into a more destruction-oriented approach after being accused of destroying the Kakhovka Dam in the Kherson region.
President Alar Karis tweeted: "Blowing up the Kakhovka dam is an another act of terrorism that will threaten thousands of Ukrainian civilians' lives.
Residents of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, walk through the mud of the Dnipro river on Saturday, following damage sustained at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam.
Russian occupying authorities in southern Ukraine said on Saturday that Ukrainian forces were subjecting the city of Novaya Kakhovka to “intense artillery fire” that had cut off electricity.
Shocked by the unprecedented attack of the Nova Kakhovka dam.
Their evening walks continued even after Russia seized their hometown of Nova Kakhovka — shy Baranov with a giant black Italian mastiff and Pryshliak with a toy poodle whose apricot fur matched his beard.
The island neighborhood was one residential area in the direct slipstream of Tuesday's catastrophe, which experts said was expected to play out over days as pent-up waters from the Kakhovka reservoir wash their way unhindered toward the Black Sea.
The water from the Kakhovka reservoir is flowing toward the city of Kherson.
This image provided by Maxar Technologies, shows the Kakhovka dam and station in Ukraine after collapse, on June 7, 2023.
Who blew up the Kakhovka dam?
Common combinations with kakhovka
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: