On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Melilla. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Melilla in a sentence
Melilla meaning
An autonomous city of Spain and exclave at the edge of Morocco.
Using Melilla
- The main meaning on this page is: An autonomous city of Spain and exclave at the edge of Morocco.
- In the example corpus, melilla often appears in combinations such as: and melilla, in melilla, melilla has.
Context around Melilla
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 6 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Melilla
- In this selection, "melilla" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, climate, spain, tomorrow and migrant stand out and add context to how "melilla" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include born in melilla spain to and built around melilla. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "melilla" sits close to words such as abhinandan, abhor and abscesses, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with melilla
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Omorodion was born in Melilla, Spain to Nigerian parents. (9 words)
In 2005 a new border fence, 11km long and three metres high, was built around Melilla. (16 words)
Migrants sit atop a border fence during an attempt to cross from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Melilla. (19 words)
With victories over Melilla in the Copa del Rey, Viktoria Plzen in the Champions League, and Real Valladolid and Celta Vigo in La Liga, Solari has enjoyed the best start of any manager in the club’s history. (38 words)
Spanish colonial policies in Spanish Morocco led to an uprising known as the Rif War ; rebels took control of most of the area except for the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in 1921. (33 words)
Everyone in Melilla has some connection to the city’s most visible and controversial feature: a huge barbed-wire fence, which separates this Spanish port city from the rest of north Africa. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Most migrants trying to enter Ceuta or Melilla — Spain’s other enclave in North Africa — from Morocco do so by trying to cross the huge border fences.
Omorodion was born in Melilla, Spain to Nigerian parents.
In 2005 a new border fence, 11km long and three metres high, was built around Melilla.
Everyone in Melilla has some connection to the city’s most visible and controversial feature: a huge barbed-wire fence, which separates this Spanish port city from the rest of north Africa.
Migrants sit atop a border fence during an attempt to cross from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Melilla.
Santiago Solari has been placed in temporary charge of the team with his first game coming in the Copa del Rey with Melilla on Wednesday.
Solari was the coach of Madrid's B team, Castilla, and is now expected to take Madrid for their Copa del Rey game against Melilla tomorrow.
The 6-meter-high razor wire fences which separate Ceuta and Melilla from Morocco has been a contentious issue.
With victories over Melilla in the Copa del Rey, Viktoria Plzen in the Champions League, and Real Valladolid and Celta Vigo in La Liga, Solari has enjoyed the best start of any manager in the club’s history.
Climate Melilla has a warm mediterranean climate influenced by its proximity to the sea, rendering much cooler summers and more precipitation than inland areas deeper into Africa.
In February 2014, over 200 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa scaled a security fence to get into the Melilla migrant reception center.
Jews, who had lived in Melilla for centuries, have been leaving the city in recent years (from 20% of the population before World War II to less than 5% today).
Many people traveling between Europe and Morocco use the ferry links to Melilla, both for passengers and for freight.
Melilla (and Ceuta) have declared the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha or Feast of the Sacrifice, as an official public holiday from 2010 onward.
Melilla has been a popular destination for refugees and people leaving countries with poor economies in order to enter the European Union.
Melilla is regularly connected to the Iberian peninsula by air and sea traffic and is also economically connected to Morocco: most of its fruits and vegetables are imported across the border.
Since 2010, Ceuta (and Melilla) have declared the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha or Feast of the Sacrifice, as an official public holiday.
Spanish colonial policies in Spanish Morocco led to an uprising known as the Rif War ; rebels took control of most of the area except for the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in 1921.
The following year, Spanish King Juan Carlos visited Ceuta and Melilla, further angering Morocco which demanded control of the enclaves.
The Legion and supporting units relieved the Spanish enclave of Melilla after a three-day forced march led by Franco.
Common combinations with melilla
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and melilla 5×
- in melilla 3×
- melilla has 3×
- of melilla 3×
- melilla and 3×
- melilla spain 2×
- melilla in 2×