Wondering how to use Olav in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. .
Using Olav
- In the example corpus, olav often appears in combinations such as: and olav, king olav, olav njølstad.
Context around Olav
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 12 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Olav
- In this selection, "olav" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, king, jan, son, rune, aamlid and robert stand out and add context to how "olav" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ali and olav njølstad secretary and birthdays and olav who was. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "olav" sits close to words such as abdulai, abhinandan and abhor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with olav
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
All illustrations from Jan Olav Aamlid collection. (7 words)
Olav, Norway's king to all eternity. (7 words)
Olav Rokne is a writer who lives in Edmonton. (9 words)
Olav died in 1387, before he came of age and could take over the government, so Margaret made the Danish Council of the Realm elect her as regent of Denmark, but she did not attempt to assume the title of queen. (41 words)
This was in part possible from the scholarship I received from the Sons of Norway organization, the King Olav V Norwegian-American Heritage Scholarship, with help from a sponsorship by local Sons of Norway member, Loretta Knutson. (37 words)
Molde was in effect the capital of Norway for a week after King Haakon, Crown Prince Olav, and members of the government and parliament arrived at Molde on April 23, after a dramatic flight from Oslo. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
In 1967, the couple celebrated their 30th birthdays - and Olav, who was becoming more accepting of Sonja, invited her on board his yacht.
Makris's co-authors on the paper are Shourav Pednekar and Ankita Jain at MIT, and Olav Rune Godø of the Institute of Marine Research in Norway.
All illustrations from Jan Olav Aamlid collection.
In 1995 Mr. Palmer sold the plaza to Dr. Hans Helmut Killinger from Hamburg, Germany, who transferred ownership to his son, Olav Robert Killinger, in January 2018.
Listen to the call between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali and Olav Njølstad, Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, recorded shortly after the announcement of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.
Of course the much more liberal, overwhelmingly DFL base of Omar’s Fifth District (Fraser was succeeded by Martin Olav Sabo and Keith Ellison, who consistently won by 40- or 50-percentage-point margins).
Olav Njølstad, the secretary of the Nobel committee, said it would “very much have wanted Abiy to engage with the press during his stay in Oslo”.
Olav Rokne is a writer who lives in Edmonton.
Lee Grippen was honored with the St. Olav’s Medal in a private ceremony on Friday, March 16 at Giants of the Earth Heritage Center.
This was in part possible from the scholarship I received from the Sons of Norway organization, the King Olav V Norwegian-American Heritage Scholarship, with help from a sponsorship by local Sons of Norway member, Loretta Knutson.
According to tradition, the city was founded in 1070 by king Olav Kyrre ; its name was Bjørgvin, "the green meadow among the mountains".
Although Olafr Haraldsson's (later known as Olav the Holy) army lost the battle, Christianity spread, partly on the strength of rumours of miraculous signs after his death.
Bartram, J., Wayne W. Carmichael, Ingrid Chorus, Gary Jones, and Olav M. Skulberg (1999) Chapter 1. Introduction, in: Toxic Cyanobacteria in Water: A guide to their public health consequences, monitoring and management.
Bø, Olav: Skiing throughout history, translated by W. Edson Richmond.
King Olav Tryggvasson summoned the jarl Sigurd the Stout during a visit to Orkney and said, "I order you and all your subjects to be baptised.
King Olav V of Norway was an able jumper and competed in the Holmenkollen Ski Festival in the 1920s.
Molde was in effect the capital of Norway for a week after King Haakon, Crown Prince Olav, and members of the government and parliament arrived at Molde on April 23, after a dramatic flight from Oslo.
Norway lost the steady stream of pilgrims to the relics of St. Olav at the Nidaros shrine, and with them, much of the contact with cultural and economic life in the rest of Europe.
Olav died in 1387, before he came of age and could take over the government, so Margaret made the Danish Council of the Realm elect her as regent of Denmark, but she did not attempt to assume the title of queen.
Olav, Norway's king to all eternity.
Common combinations with olav
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and olav 4×
- king olav 4×
- olav njølstad 2×
- st olav 2×
- of olav 2×
- olav trygvason 2×