Explore Murres through 8 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Murres in a sentence
Murres meaning
plural of murre
Using Murres
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of murre
- In the example corpus, murres often appears in combinations such as: common murres, murres in, murres are.
Context around Murres
- Average sentence length in these examples: 17 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Murres
- In this selection, "murres" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 17 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, common, scientists, cephus, lived and hunt stand out and add context to how "murres" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 8million common murres lived in and and cephus murres. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "murres" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with murres
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Plankton-feeding species include fish eaten by common murres. (9 words)
But none of them compared to the murres in scale. (10 words)
They caught Puffins, Lunda Cirrhata, Fratercula Corniculata, Guillemots, and Cephus & Murres. (11 words)
Because of this more extensive predation, some biologist have expressed concern that murres are heading for a "conservation collision" due to heavy eagle predation. (24 words)
Before the heat wave, roughly 8million common murres lived in Alaska — about a quarter of the world's population of the animal. (22 words)
The guillemots of Europe are murres in North America, if they occur in both continents, and the little auk becomes the dovekie. (22 words)
Example sentences (8)
Before the heat wave, roughly 8million common murres lived in Alaska — about a quarter of the world's population of the animal.
But none of them compared to the murres in scale.
For climate scientists, murres are an excellent indicator of how some other marine species, like cod, are doing.
Plankton-feeding species include fish eaten by common murres.
Because of this more extensive predation, some biologist have expressed concern that murres are heading for a "conservation collision" due to heavy eagle predation.
The guillemots of Europe are murres in North America, if they occur in both continents, and the little auk becomes the dovekie.
They caught Puffins, Lunda Cirrhata, Fratercula Corniculata, Guillemots, and Cephus & Murres.
This reflects the type of prey taken: strong-swimming murres hunt faster schooling fish, whereas auklets take slower moving krill.
Common combinations with murres
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- common murres 2×
- murres in 2×
- murres are 2×