How do you use Kolyma in a sentence? See 6 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Kolyma in a sentence
Kolyma meaning
- An area in the far north-eastern region of Russia; location of Stalinist slave labour camps in the 1930s to 1950s.
- A river in the far north-eastern area of Russia.
Using Kolyma
- The main meaning on this page is: An area in the far north-eastern region of Russia; location of Stalinist slave labour camps in the 1930s to 1950s. | A river in the far north-eastern area of Russia.
- In the example corpus, kolyma often appears in combinations such as: the kolyma, kolyma river.
Context around Kolyma
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Kolyma
- In this selection, "kolyma" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, wide, lower, river, skull and tales stand out and add context to how "kolyma" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the kolyma and the and cool wide kolyma river below. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "kolyma" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with kolyma
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Dr. Willerslev’s team found DNA in the Kolyma skull as well. (12 words)
From 1788, they participated in an annual trade fair on the lower Kolyma. (13 words)
He was squatting in mud along the cool, wide Kolyma River, below a towering cliff of crumbling earth. (18 words)
Literature Many eyewitness accounts of Gulag prisoners have been published: * Varlam Shalamov 's Kolyma Tales is a short-story collection, cited by most major works on the Gulag, and widely considered one of the main Soviet accounts. (37 words)
The United Kennel Club cites an origin near the Kolyma River Basin in Northern Siberia. citation It is an active, energetic, resilient breed, whose ancestors lived in the extremely cold and harsh environment of the Siberian Arctic. (37 words)
The same is true of other river systems, including the Pechora and the Northern Dvina in Europe and the Kolyma and the Indigirka in Siberia. (25 words)
Example sentences (6)
Dr. Willerslev’s team found DNA in the Kolyma skull as well.
He was squatting in mud along the cool, wide Kolyma River, below a towering cliff of crumbling earth.
From 1788, they participated in an annual trade fair on the lower Kolyma.
Literature Many eyewitness accounts of Gulag prisoners have been published: * Varlam Shalamov 's Kolyma Tales is a short-story collection, cited by most major works on the Gulag, and widely considered one of the main Soviet accounts.
The same is true of other river systems, including the Pechora and the Northern Dvina in Europe and the Kolyma and the Indigirka in Siberia.
The United Kennel Club cites an origin near the Kolyma River Basin in Northern Siberia. citation It is an active, energetic, resilient breed, whose ancestors lived in the extremely cold and harsh environment of the Siberian Arctic.
Common combinations with kolyma
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: