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Negev in a sentence
Negev meaning
A desert region in southern Israel.
Synonyms of Negev
Using Negev
- The main meaning on this page is: A desert region in southern Israel.
- Useful related words include: negev desert, desert.
- In the example corpus, negev often appears in combinations such as: the negev, negev desert, western negev.
Context around Negev
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Negev
- In this selection, "negev" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, entire, northwestern, ramat, desert, handed and provide stand out and add context to how "negev" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in the negev desert in and and the negev provide their. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "negev" sits close to words such as ade, admirably and alf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with negev
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Photo: Ramat Negev Regional Council. (5 words)
Prof. Oren Yiftachel teaches political geography, urban planning and public policy at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. (18 words)
The Negev desert was an empty space for expansion, so the main war effort shifted to Negev from early October. (20 words)
This was a special concern on the Israeli part because of a British diplomatic campaign to have the entire Negev handed over to Egypt and Jordan, and which thus made Ben-Gurion anxious to have Israeli forces in control of the Negev as soon as possible. (46 words)
An Israeli Air Force F-35 Lightning II fighter jet performs during a graduation ceremony of Israeli Air Force pilots, at the Hatzerim base in the Negev desert, near the southern city of Beer Sheva, on December 28, 2022. (39 words)
Burnt cars are left behind at the site of the attack three days earlier by Palestinian terrorists on the Supernova desert music near Kibbutz Re’im in the Negev desert in southern Israel, on October 10, 2023. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Negev desert was an empty space for expansion, so the main war effort shifted to Negev from early October.
This was a special concern on the Israeli part because of a British diplomatic campaign to have the entire Negev handed over to Egypt and Jordan, and which thus made Ben-Gurion anxious to have Israeli forces in control of the Negev as soon as possible.
ADI centers, located in Jerusalem and the Negev, provide their residents and special education students with the individualized growth plans and specialized services they need to grow and thrive.
An Israeli Air Force F-35 Lightning II fighter jet performs during a graduation ceremony of Israeli Air Force pilots, at the Hatzerim base in the Negev desert, near the southern city of Beer Sheva, on December 28, 2022.
Prof. Oren Yiftachel teaches political geography, urban planning and public policy at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
The participants will be able to disconnect from the war for a short time during their Birthright tour throughout Israel, from the Golan Heights to the Negev.
The project will enable the development of essential infrastructure in the Negev, allowing principal government centers – such as a complex of IDF bases – to transfer to the vast territory available in southern Israel.
Utah Department of Agriculture and Food Commissioner Craig Buttars stands in a vertical garden at the Ramat HaNegev Research and Development Center in the Negev Desert in Israel on Tuesday, March 28, 2023.
Adrienne was always friendly with the Palestinian workers, Carmel said, and with the and Palestinian families whose babies she delivered while working at a hospital in the Negev desert.
An armed Hamas terrorist leads a man at the Supernova music festival, near Kibbutz Re’im in the Negev desert in southern Israel on October 7, where terrorists from Gaza massacred hundreds of people.
Burnt cars are left behind at the site of the attack three days earlier by Palestinian terrorists on the Supernova desert music near Kibbutz Re’im in the Negev desert in southern Israel, on October 10, 2023.
Despite the doubters, the project was completed in 2010 within the Be’er Sheva River Park, and is credited as a key component of the revitalization of the Negev’s largest city.
Hamas still holds more than 100 hostages from among those abducted during the Oct. 7 onslaught of the northwestern Negev.
He soon left the Ministry to join a group of idealistic settlers dedicated to creating a viable agricultural community in the Negev Desert highlands by nurturing the region’s meager but vital resources.
Israeli bulldozers entered the 400-person village in the Negev Desert on Thursday and demolished the last building left standing – the mosque.
Mansour Nasasra, a scholar of Bedouin society in the Negev, said Ottoman and British laws should work in favour of Bedouins.
Palestinian citizens in the Negev say that Israeli authorities have attempted to them out and destroy their nomadic way of life for decades through various tactics.
Photo: Ramat Negev Regional Council.
The Radwan Force’s Galilee invasion plan served as the blueprint for the Hamas Nukhba death squads which led the Oct. 7 attack on the western Negev.
We must aggressively move Jewish settlement forward in both Gaza and Judea/Samaria (not to mention the Negev, Galilee, Golan, and Jordan Valley), even if it means a break with the US.
Common combinations with negev
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: