Below you will find example sentences with "great lakes". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Great Lakes in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: lakes
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 46
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.3 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 9 start, 9 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "great lakes" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 27.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as along the great lakes has been, also called great lakes renew includes, water, canada and region stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with great britain, great grandchildren, detroit lakes, deer lakes, finger lakes and lakes region, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with great lakes
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
The Great Lakes have a great effect on most of the peninsula. (12 words)
The Great Lakes and the Finger Lakes were carved by ice deepening old valleys. (14 words)
The ancestors of the Arapaho people entered the Great Plains from the western Great Lakes region sometime before 1700. (19 words)
Draining to the Arctic Ocean of Canada, the Mackenzie River drains waters from the Arctic Great Lakes of Arctic Canada, as opposed to the Saint-Lawrence River that drains the Great Lakes of Southern Canada into the Atlantic Ocean. (39 words)
Cities on the shores of Lake Michigan include: Connection to ocean and open water Sunset over Lake Michigan from Grand Traverse Point The Saint Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes Waterway opened the Great Lakes to ocean-going vessels. (38 words)
An international water rights policy overseen by the Great Lakes Commission, the Compact aims to prevent diversion of water from Great Lakes to distant states, as well as to set standards for use and conservation. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Current’s Great Lakes Water Innovation Engine, also called Great Lakes ReNEW, includes more than 50 regional partner organizations from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Michigan governor seeks shutdown of Great Lakes oil pipelineMichigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took legal action Friday to shut down a pipeline that carries oil beneath a channel that links two of the Great Lakes.
But Contributor to Detroit Public Television's Great Lakes Bureau Gary Wilson says the fight over funding Great Lakes programs will likely resume with next year's budget.
An international water rights policy overseen by the Great Lakes Commission, the Compact aims to prevent diversion of water from Great Lakes to distant states, as well as to set standards for use and conservation.
Cities on the shores of Lake Michigan include: Connection to ocean and open water Sunset over Lake Michigan from Grand Traverse Point The Saint Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes Waterway opened the Great Lakes to ocean-going vessels.
Draining to the Arctic Ocean of Canada, the Mackenzie River drains waters from the Arctic Great Lakes of Arctic Canada, as opposed to the Saint-Lawrence River that drains the Great Lakes of Southern Canada into the Atlantic Ocean.
She made voyages along the shores of the Great Lakes carrying trainees assigned to her from the Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois.
Since 2003, Canada has also been working with Gabon in the Group of Friends of the Great Lakes Region, which Canada co-chairs, in support of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region.
The Great Lakes Circle Tour is a designated scenic road system connecting all of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River.
Its drainage area, which includes the Great Lakes, the world's largest system of freshwater lakes, is convert, of which convert is in Canada and convert is in the United States.
The Great Lakes and the Finger Lakes were carved by ice deepening old valleys.
The state has 11,037 inland lakes - totaling convert of inland water - in addition to convert of Great Lakes waters.
This valuable resource is collectively administered by the state and provincial governments adjacent to the lakes, who have agreed to the Great Lakes Compact to regulate water supply and use.
The ancestors of the Arapaho people entered the Great Plains from the western Great Lakes region sometime before 1700.
The Great Lakes have a great effect on most of the peninsula.
The great Shawnee chief Tecumseh visited the region in 1811, seeking to forge an Indian alliance among these tribes to join his resistance in the Great Lakes area.
This region today comprises the states near the Great Lakes and also the Great Plains; much of it is prairie with a very flat terrain where the blue sky meets a neverending horizon.
Because the Great Lakes are so big, they behave like small seas with warm water in the summertime and waves plenty big enough to surf.
Buffalo, situated in western New York along the Great Lakes, has been in the midst of a transformation with substantial investments in infrastructure, public spaces, and community development.
But climate change threatens many species, and contaminants long released into the Great Lakes, the health of people who eat them — disproportionately harming tribal citizens.