Wondering how to use Nape in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as scruff or rear.
Nape in a sentence
Related words
Nape meaning
- The back part of the neck.
- The part of a fish or bird immediately behind the head.
Using Nape
- The main meaning on this page is: The back part of the neck. | The part of a fish or bird immediately behind the head.
- Useful related words include: scruff, nucha, rear, backside.
- In the example corpus, nape often appears in combinations such as: the nape, nape of, nape and.
Context around Nape
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Nape
- In this selection, "nape" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bare, head, president, district and white stand out and add context to how "nape" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include at the nape of my and by the nape of their. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "nape" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with nape
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The mohawk was measured at the top, crown and nape three times. (12 words)
Their nape, shoulders and back are thickly covered with long bluish grey hair. (13 words)
I feel at the nape of my neck the breath of someone or something upon me. (16 words)
My daughter sits on my lap and leans all her weight back into my chest, I hold the book up in front of our faces, and sometimes with my off hand, I touch the softest skin on the nape of her neck until she gets annoyed. (46 words)
Wet Brush Pro Shine Enhancer, which “has a mixture of synthetic boar and nylon bristles that offer a sleek finish,” the next step is to brush the hair down the sides and around the ear to gather it into the nape of the neck. (44 words)
The Eurasian Tree Sparrow is a small bird with a chestnut-brown head and nape, white cheeks, and a black bib. They are distinguished by their sociable nature and are often seen in small flocks. (35 words)
Example sentences (17)
An adult measures 68cm in length and is overall black with the red bare nape and white shoulder patch.
Helen Conway Ottenheimer, PC Opposition Shadow Minister for Justice and Public Safety recently met with NAPE President Jerry Earle and Justice Minister John Hogan, noting serious human resources challenges.
Next, soak an unseen strand of hair with the solution – ideally at the back of your head near the nape of your neck.
The group was operating from a NAPE district office building which was where the PJ conducted several searches and found the local suspects.
My daughter sits on my lap and leans all her weight back into my chest, I hold the book up in front of our faces, and sometimes with my off hand, I touch the softest skin on the nape of her neck until she gets annoyed.
The Eurasian Tree Sparrow is a small bird with a chestnut-brown head and nape, white cheeks, and a black bib. They are distinguished by their sociable nature and are often seen in small flocks.
Barred owls are brown to gray overall, with dark striping on the underside contrasted immediately above that with similarly-dark and tight vertical barring about their throat and nape.
I feel at the nape of my neck the breath of someone or something upon me.
Nape said that in the quantum physics field, there are still many opportunities to take broad concepts and frameworks and apply them to real-world applications.
Wet Brush Pro Shine Enhancer, which “has a mixture of synthetic boar and nylon bristles that offer a sleek finish,” the next step is to brush the hair down the sides and around the ear to gather it into the nape of the neck.
Mountain lions will stalk quite silently and attack when the child is bent over, exposing their nape (e.g. tying a shoe).
Their mother Esra carried the cubs out of their den by the nape of their neck.
The mohawk was measured at the top, crown and nape three times.
No courtship behaviour is observed; the male immediately secures hold of the female's nape and copulation takes place.
Successful hunts usually require the tiger to almost simultaneously leap onto its quarry, knock it over, and grab the throat or nape with its teeth.
The adult male was about convert in length. citation It had a bluish-gray head, nape, and hindneck.
Their nape, shoulders and back are thickly covered with long bluish grey hair.
Common combinations with nape
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the nape 5×
- nape of 5×
- nape and 3×
- and nape 3×
- their nape 2×