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Pettah in a sentence
Pettah meaning
A town, sometimes fortified, outside a fort.
Using Pettah
- The main meaning on this page is: A town, sometimes fortified, outside a fort.
Context around Pettah
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pettah
- In this selection, "pettah" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fort, citation, main and slave stand out and add context to how "pettah" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include area in pettah and maradana fort pettah slave island. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pettah" sits close to words such as aadujeevitham, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pettah
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A close accomplice of the organized crime gang member ‘Bloemendhal Sanka’ has been arrested at Aduruppuweediya area in Pettah. (19 words)
A vendor waits for customers in front of his cloth shop at Pettah main Market in Colombo on November 21, 2022. (21 words)
Accordingly, Maradana, Fort, Pettah, Slave Island, and Dam Street areas in the Colombo District will be declared isolated areas until further notice. (22 words)
Although now there is nothing left of the fortifications, the area which was once the fort is still referred to as Fort. The area outside is Pettah or පිටකොටුව in Sinhalese which means outer fort. (38 words)
To facilitate the transformation of Colombo, the government has to address these bottlenecks which have for long been obstructing economic and physical urban regeneration. citation Pettah is more crowded than the Fort area. (33 words)
Accordingly, Maradana, Fort, Pettah, Slave Island, and Dam Street areas in the Colombo District will be declared isolated areas until further notice. (22 words)
Example sentences (5)
A vendor waits for customers in front of his cloth shop at Pettah main Market in Colombo on November 21, 2022.
Accordingly, Maradana, Fort, Pettah, Slave Island, and Dam Street areas in the Colombo District will be declared isolated areas until further notice.
A close accomplice of the organized crime gang member ‘Bloemendhal Sanka’ has been arrested at Aduruppuweediya area in Pettah.
Although now there is nothing left of the fortifications, the area which was once the fort is still referred to as Fort. The area outside is Pettah or පිටකොටුව in Sinhalese which means outer fort.
To facilitate the transformation of Colombo, the government has to address these bottlenecks which have for long been obstructing economic and physical urban regeneration. citation Pettah is more crowded than the Fort area.