How do you use Maquis in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like guerrilla or guerilla, plus the exact meaning.
Maquis meaning
- Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub.
- The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere.
Synonyms of Maquis
Using Maquis
- The main meaning on this page is: Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub. | The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere.
- Useful related words include: maquisard, guerrilla, guerilla, irregular.
- In the example corpus, maquis often appears in combinations such as: the maquis, maquis ship, and maquis.
Context around Maquis
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 9 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Maquis
- In this selection, "maquis" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mediterranean, june, french, ship, cells and storyline stand out and add context to how "maquis" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a maquis normally features and among the maquis to identify. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "maquis" sits close to words such as abdelaziz, absolutist and accrual, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with maquis
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Maquis storyline in is one of the franchise's most complex political stories. (14 words)
Otherwise, nearly all the other Maquis who had not died were in Federation prisons. (14 words)
He had a rough start, however, as Starfleet and Maquis alike viewed Paris with suspicion. (15 words)
Jackson (2003), p. 577 Most of the Maquis cells — like the Maquis du Limousin or the Maquis du Vercors - took names after the area they were operating in. The size of these cells varied from tens to thousands of men and women. (42 words)
Angiolina's Farm, Legnaro and Levanto are in the Cinque Terre (Five Lands) region of Liguria amid forests of conifers, chestnut trees, strawberry trees, orchards, olive and lemon groves, and the Mediterranean maquis (shrubland) of heather and broom. (38 words)
During his stay with the Maquis, Yeager assisted the guerrillas in duties that did not involve direct combat, although he did help to construct bombs for the group, a skill that he had learned from his father. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Jackson (2003), p. 577 Most of the Maquis cells — like the Maquis du Limousin or the Maquis du Vercors - took names after the area they were operating in. The size of these cells varied from tens to thousands of men and women.
Janeway, charged with finding and capturing the Maquis ship commanded by Chakotay, offered Paris early parole in exchange for serving as her informant on Chakotay and the Maquis.
She returned as a lieutenant on a mission to infiltrate the Maquis, a terrorist group undermining the Federation's treaty with the Cardassians.
The Maquis storyline in is one of the franchise's most complex political stories.
Angiolina's Farm, Legnaro and Levanto are in the Cinque Terre (Five Lands) region of Liguria amid forests of conifers, chestnut trees, strawberry trees, orchards, olive and lemon groves, and the Mediterranean maquis (shrubland) of heather and broom.
The winner in Paris was Le Maquis, a compact, market-driven spot on the northern edge of the city.
A maquis normally features braised chicken and fish covered in onions and tomatoes, served with attiéké or kedjenou.
By June, maquis discourse made its way from south-eastern France to the plains of northern France.
Concept The concept of the Maquis was intentionally introduced by the creators of Deep Space Nine so that it could play a plot device in the upcoming Voyager, which was scheduled to begin airing in 1995.
Creating the character The official Star Trek: Voyager Companion describes B'Elanna as a young half-human half-Klingon in her twenties who is a member of the Maquis Rebellion.
Customs It was standard practice among the Maquis to identify members by wearing a Basque beret because it was common enough not to arouse suspicion but distinctive enough to be effective.
During his stay with the Maquis, Yeager assisted the guerrillas in duties that did not involve direct combat, although he did help to construct bombs for the group, a skill that he had learned from his father.
During World War II, the double transposition cipher was used by Dutch Resistance groups, the French Maquis and the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), which was in charge of managing underground activities in Europe.
He had a rough start, however, as Starfleet and Maquis alike viewed Paris with suspicion.
In 2371, B'Elanna Torres joined the Voyager crew with the rest of the Maquis from the Val Jean, as Captain Kathryn Janeway offers them the opportunity.
It had been captured by the Maquis due to a failed detonator and reprogrammed to attack its original creators.
Janeway and the crew of Voyager, while searching for the Maquis ship, were thrown into the Delta Quadrant by a massive energy wave created by an alien known as the Caretaker.
Nonetheless, various Federation members supported the Maquis' cause, and illegally helped to supply them with weapons and other technology that they could use in their struggle.
Otherwise, nearly all the other Maquis who had not died were in Federation prisons.
Poe (1998): p. 201 The producers had the Maquis introduced in other Star Trek series before Voyager in four episodes; two in Star Trek: The Next Generation and two in Deep Space Nine.
Common combinations with maquis
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the maquis 22×
- maquis ship 3×
- and maquis 3×
- maquis du 2×
- maquis to 2×