How do you use Ortrud in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Ortrud in a sentence
Ortrud meaning
A female given name.
Using Ortrud
- The main meaning on this page is: A female given name.
Context around Ortrud
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ortrud
- In this selection, "ortrud" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, church, tells, boat, pietro, rushes and sinks stand out and add context to how "ortrud" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include crowd where ortrud and telramund and destin as ortrud pietro silenzi. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ortrud" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ortrud
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The people consider Ortrud guilty of witchcraft. (7 words)
Ortrud sinks as she sees Gottfried and her plans thwarted. (10 words)
Elsa tells both of them that Ortrud was interrupting the ceremony. (11 words)
As Elsa and her attendants are about to enter the church, Ortrud rushes to the front of the procession and challenges Elsa to tell who her husband is, and to explain why anyone should follow him. (36 words)
When Elsa appears, Ortrud warns her that since she knows nothing about her rescuer, he could leave her any time, as suddenly as he came, but Elsa is sure of the virtues of her rescuer. (35 words)
Angelo Mariani conducted the performance, which starred Italo Campanini as Lohengrin, Bianca Blume as Elsa, Maria Löwe Destin as Ortrud, Pietro Silenzi as Telramund, and Giuseppe Galvani as Heinrich der Vogler. (31 words)
Example sentences (10)
Angelo Mariani conducted the performance, which starred Italo Campanini as Lohengrin, Bianca Blume as Elsa, Maria Löwe Destin as Ortrud, Pietro Silenzi as Telramund, and Giuseppe Galvani as Heinrich der Vogler.
As Elsa and her attendants are about to enter the church, Ortrud rushes to the front of the procession and challenges Elsa to tell who her husband is, and to explain why anyone should follow him.
Elsa, not seeing her beloved, falls back to the crowd where Ortrud and Telramund take her and try to intimidate her, but the Knight forces both to leave the ceremony.
Elsa tells both of them that Ortrud was interrupting the ceremony.
Ortrud sinks as she sees Gottfried and her plans thwarted.
The Knight tells Ortrud to go back into the crowd, then takes Elsa to the wedding.
Then, when Lohengrin tries to get in the boat, Ortrud appears.
The people consider Ortrud guilty of witchcraft.
When Elsa appears on the balcony in the twilight before dawn she hears Ortrud lamenting and pities her.
When Elsa appears, Ortrud warns her that since she knows nothing about her rescuer, he could leave her any time, as suddenly as he came, but Elsa is sure of the virtues of her rescuer.