Get to know Liffey better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Liffey in a sentence
Liffey meaning
- A river in Ireland that flows from the Wicklow Mountains for around 75 miles (125 km) through Dublin to the Irish Sea.
- A town in Meander Valley council area and the Northern Midlands council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.
Using Liffey
- The main meaning on this page is: A river in Ireland that flows from the Wicklow Mountains for around 75 miles (125 km) through Dublin to the Irish Sea. | A town in Meander Valley council area and the Northern Midlands council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.
- In the example corpus, liffey often appears in combinations such as: the liffey, liffey valley, river liffey.
Context around Liffey
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Liffey
- In this selection, "liffey" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, river, beside, city, valley, swim and flows stand out and add context to how "liffey" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include along the liffey a troop and clondalkin and liffey valley. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "liffey" sits close to words such as abad, abovementioned and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with liffey
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
On the other side of the Liffey, is another staple. (10 words)
Three sites beside Liffey Valley Shopping Centre on the market for €8. (12 words)
The Liffey divides the city in two between the Northside and the Southside. (13 words)
Liffey Valley Shopping Centre in Dublin and Cork’s Mahon Point have both told people that they are currently unable to accept gift cards issued for the shopping centres by the shopping centres. (33 words)
The Dublin City Liffey Swim is regarded as an open sea race because for much of the race swimmers are battle against an incoming tide and are swimming in salt water. (31 words)
She is the self-same Livia whose long reddish-blond tresses were compared to the River Liffey and her name, Livia, became the Anna Livia Plurabelle of Finnegan’s Wake. (30 words)
Example sentences (19)
At the Four Courts along the Liffey a troop from the 5 Lancers was ambushed by Daly’s men, who were the first engage wi British troops.
Liffey Valley Shopping Centre in Dublin and Cork’s Mahon Point have both told people that they are currently unable to accept gift cards issued for the shopping centres by the shopping centres.
She is the self-same Livia whose long reddish-blond tresses were compared to the River Liffey and her name, Livia, became the Anna Livia Plurabelle of Finnegan’s Wake.
The regulator of the Uisce Éireann facility in Ballymore Eustace found there were non-compliant concentrations of chemicals discharging into the Liffey.
The coastal plot, near where the Liffey flows into Dublin Bay just east of the city centre, measures about 37 acres.
The Liffey in Liverpool, where Guinness is usually the top seller, says it has been without the alcoholic drink since Wednesday.
Dublin Port said it would apply to Dublin City Council for planning permission for the Liffey-Tolka Project by April 2021.
As O’Hagan headed towards the Castle, de Búrca worked her way up the River Liffey towards Merchant’s Quay.
On the other side of the Liffey, is another staple.
The Cloburris development will be built over a 280-hectare site in an area between Lucan, Clondalkin and Liffey Valley.
Three sites beside Liffey Valley Shopping Centre on the market for €8.
Window seats come with a view over the River Liffey and the Ha’penny bridge.
Kaiser: The Greatest Footballer Never To Play Footballscreens at the Vue Cinema in Dublin’s Liffey Valley on Sunday 29 July.
The Dublin City Liffey Swim is regarded as an open sea race because for much of the race swimmers are battle against an incoming tide and are swimming in salt water.
The event – which is organised by drugs NGO the Ana Liffey Drug Project – will look into what a health-led approach to tackling drug use would look like.
At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Yeats' painting The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture segment of the Games.
The Dubhlinn was a small lake used to moor ships; the Poddle connected the lake with the Liffey.
The Liffey divides the city in two between the Northside and the Southside.
The two best known cinemas in the city centre are the Savoy Cinema and the Cineworld Cinema, both north of the Liffey.
Common combinations with liffey
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: