Wondering how to use Levant in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as decamp or bolt.
Levant meaning
A cultural region of West Asia, consisting of the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea, namely Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus (and sometimes, especially in a historical context, also including Turkey and Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire).
Synonyms of Levant
Using Levant
- The main meaning on this page is: A cultural region of West Asia, consisting of the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea, namely Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus (and sometimes, especially in a historical context, also including Turkey and Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire).
- Useful related words include: levant morocco, go off, run off, decamp.
- In the example corpus, levant often appears in combinations such as: the levant, levant isil, and levant.
Context around Levant
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Levant
- In this selection, "levant" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, oscar, forced, age, began, troupes and mainfurther stand out and add context to how "levant" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about oscar levant the prized and and forced levant to draw. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "levant" sits close to words such as airbags, akure and aman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with levant
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Ezra Levant is not a lawyer. (6 words)
Levant made the argument that he was fighting for freedom of the press. (13 words)
Almost the entire Latin America, Africa, and Asia are against Western adventurism in the Levant. (15 words)
For almost a decade now, self-exiled from southern California, I have lived here in the Levant with a handful of rescue dogs and a housekeeper, on a farmhouse that sits atop a remote hill between two small villages. (39 words)
After all, ask the average person on the street if they know who Oscar Levant was and they will likely respond with a blank stare, especially since his popularity peaked in the forties and fifties. (35 words)
I knew very little about Oscar Levant, the prized guest that Paar wants so much, but when I walked into the Belasco Theatre on Broadway, his name really didn’t mean much to me. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Cyane and Levant began a series of broadsides against Constitution, but Stewart outmaneuvered both of them and forced Levant to draw off for repairs.
In 1925, this force was expanded and designated as the Special Troops of the Levant (Troupes Spéciales du Levant).
Levant mainfurther In modern scholarship the chronology of the Bronze Age Levant is divided into Early/Proto Syrian; corresponding to the Early Bronze.
After all, ask the average person on the street if they know who Oscar Levant was and they will likely respond with a blank stare, especially since his popularity peaked in the forties and fifties.
Carmel, Corinth, Hermon and Levant: When these four Penobscot County towns were founded between 1811 and 1814, townspeople chose names connected to locations in the Bible.
Ezra Levant is not a lawyer.
I didn’t buy the business with Gershwin (John Zdrojeski), who makes ghostly visitations that exacerbate Levant’s envy and self-doubt.
I knew very little about Oscar Levant, the prized guest that Paar wants so much, but when I walked into the Belasco Theatre on Broadway, his name really didn’t mean much to me.
Levant made the argument that he was fighting for freedom of the press.
The stress resides in what would happen if Levant steps out of line by diving into the dreaded three-topic quicksand.
Almost the entire Latin America, Africa, and Asia are against Western adventurism in the Levant.
As of 2014, Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region and the thirteenth-largest in the Arab world.
In an Instagram post, Paradiso Amsterdam hailed Saint Levant’s performance at its venue last week.
I recently finished James Barr’s book “A Line in the Sand,” which details the British-French rivalry, much of which involved a struggle over the Levant between the two world wars.
It’s the only permanent Roman Legion camp ever to be found anywhere in the Levant, though others are believed to have existed.
The Joweizeh Spring Tunnel, spanning 232 metres, is one of the oldest artificial water tunnels in the southern Levant.
Wabanaki writer and Levant resident Morgan Talty’s new book, “Fire Exit,” is a worthy follow up to his nationally acclaimed debut “Night of the Living Rez,” the BDN’s Emily Burnham writes.
Egyptian glass consistently contained more hafnium and had lower isotopic ratios than glass produced in the Levant, the team found.
For almost a decade now, self-exiled from southern California, I have lived here in the Levant with a handful of rescue dogs and a housekeeper, on a farmhouse that sits atop a remote hill between two small villages.
In “Memoirs of an Amnesiac,” Odets’s friend, the pianist Oscar Levant, wrote, “it was humiliating that Odets had to write that kind of picture at all, but he needed the money.
Common combinations with levant
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the levant 60×
- levant isil 9×
- and levant 6×
- levant is 5×
- ezra levant 5×
- levant and 5×
- du levant 4×
- oscar levant 4×
- southern levant 4×
- levant was 3×