How do you use Kowloon in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Kowloon in a sentence
Kowloon meaning
A region, peninsula, and urban area of Hong Kong.
Using Kowloon
- The main meaning on this page is: A region, peninsula, and urban area of Hong Kong.
- In the example corpus, kowloon often appears in combinations such as: in kowloon, the kowloon, of kowloon.
Context around Kowloon
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Kowloon
- In this selection, "kowloon" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, west, down, road, restaurant, isn and true stand out and add context to how "kowloon" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include action in kowloon s walled and area in kowloon and is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "kowloon" sits close to words such as abstention, acadiana and actuarial, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with kowloon
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
On Sunday police chased protesters through the upmarket complexes and streets of Kowloon. (13 words)
A ban on a march in Kowloon’s Hung Hom district on Saturday was overturned on Friday. (17 words)
During protests, crowds gathered by Prince Edward and Mong Kok stations in Hong Kong's Kowloon neighbourhood. (17 words)
A figurine of a Hong Kong anti-government protester is held up as people gather at West Kowloon Law Courts Building to show their support to 96 anti-government protesters who were arrested days ago in Hong Kong, Oct. 2, 2019. (41 words)
Ng – a masseuse who had been in a relationship with Kwong’s father for about six months – was also suspected of having rented a luxury flat in the Arch Sky Tower development in West Kowloon to hide the younger son. (40 words)
The fatal stabbing is the second violent incident at the Kowloon Restaurant to make headlines in recent weeks, after a there the night before Thanksgiving took the internet by storm, ultimately leading to charges for three men and a woman. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
But Tsui sets the action in Kowloon’s walled city, a largely lawless and densely populated tenement largely made up of refugees that hit peak wildness between the 1950s and 1980s when controlled by local triads.
Fears of tanks rolling down Kowloon’s Nathan Road were hastily squashed; the constant refrain, ‘They know Taiwan is watching to see what they do,’ was voiced by many.
Ng – a masseuse who had been in a relationship with Kwong’s father for about six months – was also suspected of having rented a luxury flat in the Arch Sky Tower development in West Kowloon to hide the younger son.
The fatal stabbing is the second violent incident at the Kowloon Restaurant to make headlines in recent weeks, after a there the night before Thanksgiving took the internet by storm, ultimately leading to charges for three men and a woman.
Tsim Sha Tsui is a tourist and shopping area in Kowloon, and is famous for its skyscrapers and an iconic view of the city’s Victoria Harbor.
Kowloon isn’t the only place guests can order from, though the highway palace in Saugus is the most popular option (and most expensive at $219 before shipping and handling).
Ms Lee Yi Ying, Principal of Kowloon True Light College said: “I’m thrilled to see such a significant turnout at this year’s Learning & Teaching Expo, along with strong backing from the education community.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, no architects were involved in the bonkers design of Kowloon, and there was no planning permission sought or given.
The program also extended outside the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, with public installations, including a film co-commissioned by Art Basel and M+, presented by UBS, for the Kowloon-based museum’s facade.
On Sunday police chased protesters through the upmarket complexes and streets of Kowloon.
A ban on a march in Kowloon’s Hung Hom district on Saturday was overturned on Friday.
Activists threw petrol bombs and bricks on Saturday in the gritty industrial area of Kwun Tong, a densely populated area of the Chinese territory on the east of the Kowloon peninsula.
A figurine of a Hong Kong anti-government protester is held up as people gather at West Kowloon Law Courts Building to show their support to 96 anti-government protesters who were arrested days ago in Hong Kong, Oct. 2, 2019.
A group of 60- to 70-year-olds on Nathan Road, Kowloon, cheered the protesters, urging them to block the road and warning them when police were returning.
Another mainland student who asked to remain anonymous said she recognized many other students at the West Kowloon high-speed railway station, which connects Hong Kong with Shenzhen and beyond.
A two-day de-luxe ticket – costing HKD650 – also includes a one-hour tour on Victoria Harbour and Kowloon nightlife tour.
During protests, crowds gathered by Prince Edward and Mong Kok stations in Hong Kong's Kowloon neighbourhood.
In Kowloon the previous night I had heard harrowing stories of teachers brainwashing elementary school pupils into protest marches.
Mandy Lee, 53, a homemaker who voted at the Kowloon Bay neighborhood, showed up to vote for the pro-Beijing establishment and criticized the protests.
Many protesters then fled north by public transport across the harbor to various parts of Kowloon, where they were expected to continue occupying roads and antagonizing the police into the small hours, as they had done the night before.
Common combinations with kowloon
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in kowloon 14×
- the kowloon 6×
- of kowloon 6×
- kowloon and 4×
- and kowloon 4×
- west kowloon 3×
- kowloon peninsula 3×
- kowloon bay 2×
- kowloon tong 2×