Explore Mccullers through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like writer or author. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Mccullers meaning
A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Using Mccullers
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- Useful related words include: carson mccullers, carson smith mccullers, writer, author.
- In the example corpus, mccullers often appears in combinations such as: lance mccullers, mccullers jr, carson mccullers.
Context around Mccullers
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 3 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mccullers
- In this selection, "mccullers" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, lance, carson, finishing and won stand out and add context to how "mccullers" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and carson mccullers s the and behind lance mccullers s gem. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mccullers" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mccullers
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Lance McCullers Jr. unlikely to rejoin the Astros' rotation when he returns. (12 words)
The Yankees swung and missed seven times during McCullers’ finishing flurry of two dozen curveballs. (15 words)
After Justin Verlander and Zack Greinke, the assumption is Lance McCullers, Jr. will resume his role as a starter. (19 words)
The good news on Sunday for Houstonians is that the Astros beat the Indians to take that series 2-1 behind Lance McCullers's gem (5 perfect innings and only 1 hit through 7 with 8 strikeouts) and Brian McCann's McCanonball two-run homer. (45 words)
Margot's big plays made a winner of 36-year-old Charlie Morton, who helped Houston win the 2017 World Series, and spoiled an otherwise fine effort by McCullers, who lost despite striking out 11 in seven innings. (38 words)
In Carson McCullers’s 1946 novel “The Member of the Wedding,” 12-year-old Frankie Addams, a motherless girl growing up in small-town Georgia, is jolted by news of her older brother’s engagement. (35 words)
Example sentences (12)
As I was thinking about Gopi’s world, I was reading Tarjei Vesaas’s The Ice Palace (translated by Elizabeth Rokkan) and Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding.
The Yankees swung and missed seven times during McCullers’ finishing flurry of two dozen curveballs.
After Justin Verlander and Zack Greinke, the assumption is Lance McCullers, Jr. will resume his role as a starter.
In 1948, O’Connor continued to work on “Wise Blood” at Yaddo, the artists’ community in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. She was preceded there by Carson McCullers and Truman Capote.
In Carson McCullers’s 1946 novel “The Member of the Wedding,” 12-year-old Frankie Addams, a motherless girl growing up in small-town Georgia, is jolted by news of her older brother’s engagement.
Margot's big plays made a winner of 36-year-old Charlie Morton, who helped Houston win the 2017 World Series, and spoiled an otherwise fine effort by McCullers, who lost despite striking out 11 in seven innings.
The Astros have had overall better health results with their starters year after year even with Lance McCullers Jr. needing Tommy John surgery.
Astros: RHP Lance McCullers Jr. (5-2, 3.63 ERA) gets the start on Sunday night as he tries to avoid back-to-back losses for the first time this season.
Lance McCullers Jr. unlikely to rejoin the Astros' rotation when he returns.
McCullers won his fourth straight decision to join Charlie Morton as the first Houston pitchers to reach 10 wins this season.
Ryan Pressley followed, loading the bases and giving up his first run since mid-August though the run came in when Lance McCullers, Jr. walked in the runner from third.
The good news on Sunday for Houstonians is that the Astros beat the Indians to take that series 2-1 behind Lance McCullers's gem (5 perfect innings and only 1 hit through 7 with 8 strikeouts) and Brian McCann's McCanonball two-run homer.
Common combinations with mccullers
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- lance mccullers 5×
- mccullers jr 5×
- carson mccullers 3×