Get to know Lire better with 8 real example sentences, the meaning.
Lire meaning
- Flesh, brawn, or muscle; the fleshy part of a person or animal in contradistinction to the bone and skin.
- The fleshy part of a roast capon, etc. as distinguished from a limb or joint.
Using Lire
- The main meaning on this page is: Flesh, brawn, or muscle; the fleshy part of a person or animal in contradistinction to the bone and skin. | The fleshy part of a roast capon, etc. as distinguished from a limb or joint.
- In the example corpus, lire often appears in combinations such as: lire to, for lire.
Context around Lire
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lire
- In this selection, "lire" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, 1000, 000, 150, kezich and portugal stand out and add context to how "lire" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1 000 lire from stradivari and 5 million lire to the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lire" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lire
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In comparison, he had bought his house in 1680 for 7,000 lire. (13 words)
To put this into perspective, six violins were valued at approximately 1000 lire, or about 150 lire each. (18 words)
In 1715, under unknown circumstances, Giuseppe Guarneri borrowed 1,000 lire from Stradivari and later defaulted on the loan. (19 words)
Following the war, in 1924 the Italian Parliament led by Benito Mussolini passed a bill (called la legge del miliardo) to establish a budget of one billion lire to develop infrastructure in order to encourage economic development. (37 words)
The Italian bid was chosen in preference to one from Sweden; citation the Italian government assigned a budget of 3.5 million lire to the tournament. (26 words)
Despite scalpers selling tickets at 1000 lire, Kezich, 208 crowds queued in line for hours to see an “immoral movie” before the censors banned it. (25 words)
Example sentences (8)
To put this into perspective, six violins were valued at approximately 1000 lire, or about 150 lire each.
Despite scalpers selling tickets at 1000 lire, Kezich, 208 crowds queued in line for hours to see an “immoral movie” before the censors banned it.
Following the war, in 1924 the Italian Parliament led by Benito Mussolini passed a bill (called la legge del miliardo) to establish a budget of one billion lire to develop infrastructure in order to encourage economic development.
In 1715, under unknown circumstances, Giuseppe Guarneri borrowed 1,000 lire from Stradivari and later defaulted on the loan.
In comparison, he had bought his house in 1680 for 7,000 lire.
She placed her with a German-speaking peasant woman whose own child had died, and who agreed to raise Mary for 200 lire a month.
The Italian bid was chosen in preference to one from Sweden; citation the Italian government assigned a budget of 3.5 million lire to the tournament.
The United States issued the series jointly for the first time with three other countries, Italy in lire, Portugal in escudos and Spain in pesetas.
Common combinations with lire
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- lire to 2×
- for lire 2×