Wondering how to use Moomins in a sentence? Below are 9 example sentences from authentic English texts. .
Using Moomins
- In the example corpus, moomins often appears in combinations such as: the moomins, moomins and.
Context around Moomins
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Moomins
- In this selection, "moomins" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, winter, live, critics and hibernate stand out and add context to how "moomins" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about the moomins and book the moomins and the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "moomins" sits close to words such as aardwolf, aargau and abacos, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with moomins
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Moomins Live in the World Tove Jansson Wantednytimes. (9 words)
The Moomin Museum in Tampere displays much of Jansson's work on the Moomins. (14 words)
After Moominvalley in November Tove Jansson stopped writing about Moomins and started writing for adults. (15 words)
Jansson said that she had designed the Moomins in her youth: after she lost a philosophical quarrel about Immanuel Kant with one of her brothers, she drew "the ugliest creature imaginable" on the wall of their outhouse and wrote under it "Kant". (42 words)
Moominland Midwinter focuses on Moomintroll, who wakes up in the middle of the winter (Moomins hibernate from November to April, as mentioned on the back of the book), and has to cope with the strange and unfriendly world he finds. (40 words)
Inspiration for Moomins Critics have interpreted various Moomin characters as being inspired by real people, especially members of the author's family, and Jansson spoke in interviews about the backgrounds of, and possible models for, her characters. (37 words)
Example sentences (9)
The Moomins Live in the World Tove Jansson Wantednytimes.
After Moominvalley in November Tove Jansson stopped writing about Moomins and started writing for adults.
In 1952, after Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll had been translated into English, a British publisher asked if Tove Jansson would be interested in drawing comic strips about the Moomins.
Inspiration for Moomins Critics have interpreted various Moomin characters as being inspired by real people, especially members of the author's family, and Jansson spoke in interviews about the backgrounds of, and possible models for, her characters.
Jansson said that she had designed the Moomins in her youth: after she lost a philosophical quarrel about Immanuel Kant with one of her brothers, she drew "the ugliest creature imaginable" on the wall of their outhouse and wrote under it "Kant".
Moominland Midwinter focuses on Moomintroll, who wakes up in the middle of the winter (Moomins hibernate from November to April, as mentioned on the back of the book), and has to cope with the strange and unfriendly world he finds.
The Moomin Museum in Tampere displays much of Jansson's work on the Moomins.
The Moomins and the Great Flood deals with Moominmamma and Moomintroll's flight through a dark and scary forest, where they encounter various dangers.
This Moomin later gained weight and a more pleasant appearance, but in the first Moomin book The Moomins and the Great Flood (originally Småtrollen och den stora översvämningen), the Immanuel-Kant-Moomin is still perceptible.
Common combinations with moomins
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: