How do you use Nueces in a sentence? See 8 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Nueces in a sentence
Nueces meaning
A river in Texas which flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
Using Nueces
- The main meaning on this page is: A river in Texas which flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
- In the example corpus, nueces often appears in combinations such as: nueces river, in nueces, nueces county.
Context around Nueces
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 5 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Nueces
- In this selection, "nueces" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, claimed, frio, river, county and rivers stand out and add context to how "nueces" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aransas in nueces county texas and between the nueces river and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "nueces" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with nueces
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
According to the press release, Enriquez had a scheduled court hearing Friday morning in Nueces County. (16 words)
Frio County issued a $49 million bond to finance construction, reported the local newspaper, the Frio-Nueces Current. (18 words)
To the extent that there was a de facto recognition, Mexico treated the Nueces River as its northern boundary control. (20 words)
In January 1846, to increase pressure on Mexico to negotiate, Polk sent troops under General Zachary Taylor into the area between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande —territory that was claimed by both the U.S. and Mexico. (39 words)
Video footage on Twitter of Port Aransas in Nueces County, Texas showed grey skies and lashing waves that had already engulfed a beach ahead of the storm's landfall. (29 words)
Texas and the U.S. asserted the border of Texas and Mexico to be the Rio Grande River, while Mexico claimed Nueces River that was much further north. (28 words)
Example sentences (8)
Texas and the U.S. asserted the border of Texas and Mexico to be the Rio Grande River, while Mexico claimed Nueces River that was much further north.
Frio County issued a $49 million bond to finance construction, reported the local newspaper, the Frio-Nueces Current.
Video footage on Twitter of Port Aransas in Nueces County, Texas showed grey skies and lashing waves that had already engulfed a beach ahead of the storm's landfall.
According to the press release, Enriquez had a scheduled court hearing Friday morning in Nueces County.
For the purposes of this article, "Texas" refers to the area north of the Medina and Nueces Rivers and west of the Sabine River.
In January 1846, to increase pressure on Mexico to negotiate, Polk sent troops under General Zachary Taylor into the area between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande —territory that was claimed by both the U.S. and Mexico.
Rusk ordered that all Tejanos in the area between the Guadalupe and Nueces Rivers migrate either to east Texas or to Mexico.
To the extent that there was a de facto recognition, Mexico treated the Nueces River as its northern boundary control.
Common combinations with nueces
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: