Explore Lenya through 6 example sentences from English. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Lenya in a sentence
Using Lenya
- In the example corpus, lenya often appears in combinations such as: lotte lenya, lenya quinn-davidson.
Context around Lenya
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lenya
- In this selection, "lenya" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, lotte, ago, scientist, wilks and quinn stand out and add context to how "lenya" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include actress lotte lenya later his and fire scientist lenya quinn davidson. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lenya" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lenya
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The name of Lotte Lenya, who played Jenny, was omitted by mistake. (12 words)
The actress Lotte Lenya, later his wife and a singular interpreter of his works, was among those who auditioned for the premiere. (22 words)
Lenya Wilks says she felt like the “only Black person in Surrey” when she first moved to the city east of Vancouver last year. (24 words)
Following the Leipzig premiere, the opera was presented in Berlin in December 1931 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm conducted by Alexander von Zemlinsky with Lotte Lenya as Jenny, Trude Hesterberg as Begbick, and Harald Paulsen as Jimmy. (37 words)
But while many Californians were inconvenienced by the blackouts, University of California Cooperative Extension fire scientist Lenya Quinn-Davidson she worries that too much emphasis is being placed on utilities as the cause of fires. (35 words)
About two years ago, Lenya N. Quinn-Davidson, area fire advisor for the University of California Cooperative Extension, cofounded the Humboldt County Prescribed Burn Association. (25 words)
Example sentences (6)
Lenya Wilks says she felt like the “only Black person in Surrey” when she first moved to the city east of Vancouver last year.
About two years ago, Lenya N. Quinn-Davidson, area fire advisor for the University of California Cooperative Extension, cofounded the Humboldt County Prescribed Burn Association.
But while many Californians were inconvenienced by the blackouts, University of California Cooperative Extension fire scientist Lenya Quinn-Davidson she worries that too much emphasis is being placed on utilities as the cause of fires.
The actress Lotte Lenya, later his wife and a singular interpreter of his works, was among those who auditioned for the premiere.
Following the Leipzig premiere, the opera was presented in Berlin in December 1931 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm conducted by Alexander von Zemlinsky with Lotte Lenya as Jenny, Trude Hesterberg as Begbick, and Harald Paulsen as Jimmy.
The name of Lotte Lenya, who played Jenny, was omitted by mistake.
Common combinations with lenya
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- lotte lenya 3×
- lenya quinn-davidson 2×