Below you will find example sentences with "noun referring". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Noun Referring in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 6
  • Discovered as a combination around: referring
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 3
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 25.5 words

Words in this phrase

noun referring

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • noun can mean: A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substan... Less frequent word
  • referring can mean: present participle and gerund of refer Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 1 start, 4 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

a neuter noun referring to a 1× a plural noun referring to the 1× a singular noun referring to an 1× an informal noun referring to a 1× be a noun referring to a 1× of a noun referring to a 1× spec the noun referring to appearance 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

dictionary com also 1× pronoun usage could 1× since becoming a 1× the grammatical gender 1× the word spice 1×

Common sentence endings:

a baby boom 1× a female person 1× decision making activity 1× natural gender i 1× the same root 1× to an individual 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

gender 3× group 2× grammatical 2× natural 2× person 2× word 2× root 2× becoming 1× loanword 1× english 1× taliban 1× besides 1×

Phrases around this combination

Just before it in the phrase index:

nottingham panthers noted earlier note ultra note pro notable people notable exception

Just after it in the phrase index:

novel coronavirus now expects now facing now leads now owned now owns

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "noun referring" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a neuter noun referring to a, a plural noun referring to the, gender, group and grammatical stand out.

Example types with noun referring

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

The grammatical gender of a noun referring to a human usually corresponds to the noun's natural gender (i. (19 words)

Dictionary.com also chimed in saying in part, "Boomer is an informal noun referring to a person born during a baby boom. (22 words)

It can be a noun referring to a meeting or a group of people or a verb referring to a discussion or decision-making activity. (25 words)

Longer example sentences

The word spice comes from the Old French word espice, which became epice, and which came from the Latin root spec, the noun referring to "appearance, sort, kind": species has the same root. (33 words)

Since becoming a loanword in English, Taliban, besides a plural noun referring to the group, has also been used as a singular noun referring to an individual. (27 words)

Pronoun usage could reflect either natural or grammatical gender, when those conflicted (as in the case of wīf main, a neuter noun referring to a female person). (27 words)

Example sentences (6)

Since becoming a loanword in English, Taliban, besides a plural noun referring to the group, has also been used as a singular noun referring to an individual.

The grammatical gender of a noun referring to a human usually corresponds to the noun's natural gender (i.

It can be a noun referring to a meeting or a group of people or a verb referring to a discussion or decision-making activity.

Dictionary.com also chimed in saying in part, "Boomer is an informal noun referring to a person born during a baby boom.

Pronoun usage could reflect either natural or grammatical gender, when those conflicted (as in the case of wīf main, a neuter noun referring to a female person).

The word spice comes from the Old French word espice, which became epice, and which came from the Latin root spec, the noun referring to "appearance, sort, kind": species has the same root.