How do you use Nisus in a sentence? See 3 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like striving or pains, plus the exact meaning.
Nisus in a sentence
Nisus meaning
- A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving.
- The periodic procreative desire manifested in the spring by birds, etc.
- The contraction of the diaphragm and abdominal muscles to evacuate faeces or urine.
Using Nisus
- The main meaning on this page is: A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving. | The periodic procreative desire manifested in the spring by birds, etc. | The contraction of the diaphragm and abdominal muscles to evacuate faeces or urine.
- Useful related words include: striving, pains, strain, attempt.
Context around Nisus
- Average sentence length in these examples: 17 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 0 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Nisus
- In this selection, "nisus" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 17 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, knew and died stand out and add context to how "nisus" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include megara but nisus knew he and nisus died and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "nisus" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with nisus
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Nisus died and Megara fell to Crete. (7 words)
Minos attacked Megara but Nisus knew he could not be beaten because he still had his lock of crimson hair. (20 words)
Nisus was King of Megara, and he was invincible as long as a lock of crimson hair still existed, hidden in his white hair. (24 words)
Nisus was King of Megara, and he was invincible as long as a lock of crimson hair still existed, hidden in his white hair. (24 words)
Minos attacked Megara but Nisus knew he could not be beaten because he still had his lock of crimson hair. (20 words)
Nisus died and Megara fell to Crete. (7 words)
Example sentences (3)
Minos attacked Megara but Nisus knew he could not be beaten because he still had his lock of crimson hair.
Nisus died and Megara fell to Crete.
Nisus was King of Megara, and he was invincible as long as a lock of crimson hair still existed, hidden in his white hair.