Get to know Palmyra better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Palmyra in a sentence
Palmyra meaning
- An ancient city, an oasis in the Syrian Desert, in present-day central Syria, recorded historically from around 2000 BCE, subsequently subject to various empires and destroyed in 273 CE and again in 1400, when it was reduced to a village.
- A city, the county seat of Marion County, Missouri, United States.
- A census-designated place, the county seat of Fluvanna County, Virginia, United States.
Synonyms of Palmyra
Using Palmyra
- The main meaning on this page is: An ancient city, an oasis in the Syrian Desert, in present-day central Syria, recorded historically from around 2000 BCE, subsequently subject to various empires and destroyed in 273 CE and again in 1400, when it was reduced to a village. | A city, the county seat of Marion County, Missouri, United States. | A census-designated place, the county seat of Fluvanna County, Virginia, United States.
- Useful related words include: palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palm, lontar.
- In the example corpus, palmyra often appears in combinations such as: of palmyra, the palmyra, in palmyra.
Context around Palmyra
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Palmyra
- In this selection, "palmyra" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, near, remote, atoll, wisconsin and walmart stand out and add context to how "palmyra" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include at the palmyra walmart but and city of palmyra captured before. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "palmyra" sits close to words such as aadmi, abducting and ably, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with palmyra
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Meanwhile, Triopia goes to Palmyra tonight to play Greenfield Northwestern. (10 words)
A private funeral service will follow with interment at Palmyra Cemetery. (11 words)
Low-maintenance, the palmyra tree has an impressive cost-to-benefit ratio. (12 words)
The economic prosperity resulting from trade and the passage of the Silk Road through Palmyra made it the capital of wealth, luxury, peace and dreams, and contributed to its urban, artistic, cultural and social progress, he said. (37 words)
Deputies responded to 4145 Hogback Hill Road in the Town of Palmyra, the CSX railroad tracks, to find a dark colored four door sedan, which had been struck by a train, laying on the railroad tracks. (36 words)
According to a preliminary investigation by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, the driver lost control of the car, and the vehicle flipped in a ditch near STH 106 and Calkins Road in Palmyra, Wisconsin. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
According to a preliminary investigation by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, the driver lost control of the car, and the vehicle flipped in a ditch near STH 106 and Calkins Road in Palmyra, Wisconsin.
Bowden worked at the Palmyra Walmart but his employment was terminated in 2021, Mitchell said.
He played an efficient role in the excavation and restoration works in Palmyra in coordination with Syrian, Polish, German, French and US archaeological missions.
Instead, conservationists plan to introduce the birds to a new wilderness home: on Palmyra Atoll, almost 6,000km from Guam.
The director of Palmyra hospital, Walid Audi, said the dead were 46 civilians and seven soldiers.
The economic prosperity resulting from trade and the passage of the Silk Road through Palmyra made it the capital of wealth, luxury, peace and dreams, and contributed to its urban, artistic, cultural and social progress, he said.
Meanwhile, Triopia goes to Palmyra tonight to play Greenfield Northwestern.
Our residents deserve to be heard so respectfully acknowledging everyone in our community is paramount to the future of Palmyra.
Palmyra is known for the historic Roman temple complex nearby, but it wasn’t immediately clear if the ruins were damaged.
The couple were flying from an airstrip near Townsville to Palmyra on the morning of October 28, a trip they had completed regularly.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said one blast occurred inside a hangar near Palmyra Military Airport, which was being used as a weapons depot.
A private funeral service will follow with interment at Palmyra Cemetery.
Deputies responded to 4145 Hogback Hill Road in the Town of Palmyra, the CSX railroad tracks, to find a dark colored four door sedan, which had been struck by a train, laying on the railroad tracks.
Grey reef sharks hang out with the same “friends” in the same spot for years, a four-year study at the remote Palmyra Atoll in the Pacific Ocean has revealed.
Low-maintenance, the palmyra tree has an impressive cost-to-benefit ratio.
Martin Chamberlain was named the winner of the Where History Happened award for this sombre image of the ancient city of Palmyra, captured before the destruction wrought by Syria's civil war.
Morgan Bishop, of Farmington, and Benjamin Kearns, of Palmyra, were named to the spring 2020 president’s list at Mansfield University in Pennsylvania.
That male, Draven M. Starr-Howell, of 363 West Main Street in Palmyra, who was fishing at the time of the incident, had jumped into the water to help rescue the three women.
The Palmyra Town Meeting was opened as usual with the Pledge of Allegiance, Roll Call, and the approval of the minutes of the previous meeting (September 24, 2020).
The three detailed black-and-white photographs focused on two main sites in Palmyra: a Roman amphitheater and the Temple of Bel, or Ba’al.
Common combinations with palmyra
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of palmyra 13×
- the palmyra 8×
- in palmyra 6×
- palmyra atoll 5×
- palmyra and 5×
- palmyra in 4×
- on palmyra 4×
- to palmyra 4×
- and palmyra 4×
- from palmyra 4×