Get to know Marple better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Marple meaning
- A town in Stockport borough, Greater Manchester, England. Originally in Cheshire.
- A surname.
Using Marple
- The main meaning on this page is: A town in Stockport borough, Greater Manchester, England. Originally in Cheshire. | A surname.
- In the example corpus, marple often appears in combinations such as: miss marple, marple and, marple had.
Context around Marple
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Marple
- In this selection, "marple" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, miss, non, seen, christie, due and hall stand out and add context to how "marple" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a miss marple mystery based and and miss marple s tea. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "marple" sits close to words such as abaribe, abbasids and abstentions, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with marple
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Brabyns Brow is currently closed in Marple due to 'emergency roadworks'. (11 words)
It would be like bringing Miss Marple into a Hercule Poirot story. (12 words)
Edward Fox appeared as Inspector Craddock, who did Miss Marple's legwork. (12 words)
In the letter to parents, which the MEN has seen, Marple Hall said students ‘who wear the skirt uniform’ can choose to wear tights or ankle socks as an alternative during the hot weather but all students would still need to bring their blazers. (44 words)
As penned by Christie, Miss Marple has never worked for a living, but the character as portrayed by Margaret Rutherford briefly works as a cook, a stage actress, a sailor and is offered the chance to run a riding establishment-cum-hotel. (42 words)
Bill Lyon, a literate, sensitive, and affable Midwesterner who endeared himself to this cynical Northeastern city during more than three decades as a must-read sports columnist, died Sunday at the Marple Township facility where he’d resided since 2017. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
She had earlier appeared in a TV movie adaptation of the non-Marple Christie story Murder Is Easy, playing an elderly lady somewhat similar to Miss Marple.
Brabyns Brow is currently closed in Marple due to 'emergency roadworks'.
In the letter to parents, which the MEN has seen, Marple Hall said students ‘who wear the skirt uniform’ can choose to wear tights or ankle socks as an alternative during the hot weather but all students would still need to bring their blazers.
It's a pretty standard Christie adaptation, but Rutherford truly embodied Miss Marple, and for years, would be who fans thought of as the character.
Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Morse, Miss Marple: The British have a long history of brilliant and tenacious detectives.
The story takes Dusty Kent to well-known locations throughout the hills, including the Botanical Gardens, the Buddhist Temple and Miss Marple’s Tea Rooms.
The vehicles then travelled to Marple, Poynton, Disley, and New Mills, before finishing in Middlewood, Stockport, at around 5:30pm.
Vagas and Marple have met fifteen times previously with Vagas ahead statistically 8-7. the most recent meeting was a 36-3 win for Vagas earlier this season.
Unmarried, unattached and uninterested in anything other than tripping liars up in mistruths and a nice cup of tea, Miss Marple had no job that I recall, just a way of showing up wherever a well-dressed corpse did.
Bill Lyon, a literate, sensitive, and affable Midwesterner who endeared himself to this cynical Northeastern city during more than three decades as a must-read sports columnist, died Sunday at the Marple Township facility where he’d resided since 2017.
Both Marple and Fuoco attest that the Saturday night concert will be unforgettable.
It would be like bringing Miss Marple into a Hercule Poirot story.
James Marple, a senior economist at TD Bank Group, pointed to wages rising, on average, 2.4 per cent a year in that period, which is above inflation.
She appeared in numerous Radio 4 productions during her career, and played Agatha Christie's Miss Marple.
She has been featured in countless newspaper articles, often referred to as India’s “Miss Marple” or “Nancy Drew”, Agatha Christie’s fictional spinster sleuth and the ever-evolving US amateur detective.
Its 20th production, Theatre 17’s ‘A Murder Is Announced: A Miss Marple Mystery’ based on a book by Agatha Christie, leans heavily on stage veterans Darlene Fuerst and Karen McDonald in its long, convoluted journey from start to finish.
American stage and screen actress Helen Hayes portrayed Miss Marple in two American made-for-TV movies, both for CBS : A Caribbean Mystery (1983) and Murder with Mirrors (1985).
As penned by Christie, Miss Marple has never worked for a living, but the character as portrayed by Margaret Rutherford briefly works as a cook, a stage actress, a sailor and is offered the chance to run a riding establishment-cum-hotel.
Authors Marion Shaw and Sabine Vanacker in their book Reflecting on Miss Marple (1991) complained that the emphasis on the "dotty element in the character" missed entirely "the quietness and sharpness" that was admired in the novels.
Edward Fox appeared as Inspector Craddock, who did Miss Marple's legwork.
Common combinations with marple
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- miss marple 23×
- marple and 2×
- marple had 2×
- the marple 2×
- marple was 2×
- marple is 2×