Below you will find example sentences with "southern pacific". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Southern Pacific in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: southern
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26.6 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "southern pacific" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.6 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 1870s when southern pacific carved out, against the southern pacific team, central, chinese and union stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with pacific ocean, southern border, southern nevada, southern hemisphere, southern italy and southern england, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with southern pacific
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
The Southern Pacific Division consists of Arizona, Southern California, Hawaii, and Nevada. (12 words)
The first scheduled Southern Pacific Railway train in Santa Ana arrived on Dec. 17, 1877. (15 words)
Northern Pacific and Southern Pacific started as a single Pacific Coast Division until dividing in 1966. (16 words)
A change in the location of where tropical cyclones form also occurs within the Southern Pacific Ocean between 135°E and 120°W, with tropical cyclones more likely to occur within the Southern Pacific basin than the Australian region. (39 words)
Kraus, "Chinese Laborers and the Construction of the Central Pacific," p. 49. J. O. Wilder, a Central Pacific-Southern Pacific employee, commented that "The Chinese were as steady, hard-working a set of men as could be found. (38 words)
Mexican officials raised the death toll to 39 on Saturday from Hurricane Otis, which struck the country's southern Pacific coast including the resort city of Acapulco early Wednesday as a powerful Category 5 storm. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Central Pacific got a direct route to San Francisco when it was merged with the Southern Pacific Railroad to create the Southern Pacific Company in 1885.
Kraus, "Chinese Laborers and the Construction of the Central Pacific," p. 49. J. O. Wilder, a Central Pacific-Southern Pacific employee, commented that "The Chinese were as steady, hard-working a set of men as could be found.
Northern Pacific and Southern Pacific started as a single Pacific Coast Division until dividing in 1966.
It was 8 hours delayed due to pulling over and waiting for Southern Pacific trains loaded with deliveries because the tracks belonged to Southern Pacific….
A change in the location of where tropical cyclones form also occurs within the Southern Pacific Ocean between 135°E and 120°W, with tropical cyclones more likely to occur within the Southern Pacific basin than the Australian region.
The Southern Pacific Railroad (later merged with the Central Pacific Railroad) would start construction after the U.S. Civil War was concluded and finish a southern transcontinental route across the U.S. in 1880.
I would love to see (the Tennessee Pass) rail ripped up,” Armistead said of the line that’s been dormant since 1997 — the year after a Union Pacific and Southern Pacific merger.
Australia and the Southern Pacific During El Niño events, the shift in rainfall away from the Western Pacific, can mean that rainfall across Australia is reduced.
D&RGW locomotives retained their reporting marks and colors after the merger with Southern Pacific and would do so until the Union Pacific merger.
The two railroads would once again unite in 1996 when the Southern Pacific was sold to the Union Pacific.
The Union Pacific initially took over the Southern Pacific in 1901 but was forced by the U.S. Supreme Court to divest it because of monopoly concerns.
The Southern Pacific Division consists of Arizona, Southern California, Hawaii, and Nevada.
In the tranquil southern Pacific region of Costa Rica, a groundbreaking study has uncovered a series of seismic events that have captivated the attention of seismologists.
Mexican officials raised the death toll to 39 on Saturday from Hurricane Otis, which struck the country's southern Pacific coast including the resort city of Acapulco early Wednesday as a powerful Category 5 storm.
The seamount in the Southern Pacific Ocean rises nearly 2 miles from the seafloor, some 900 miles off the coast of Chile.
The last attempted rail path through the area was in the 1870s, when Southern Pacific carved out a winding route with thousands of Chinese immigrant laborers, equipped only with dynamite and hand tools.
The first scheduled Southern Pacific Railway train in Santa Ana arrived on Dec. 17, 1877.
He came back to the city in March of that year to play with his new team against the Southern Pacific team.
Malfunctioning Chinese spacecraft, Tiangong-1 fell into the southern Pacific Ocean on Monday, April 2, after orbiting the earth for six years, according to China’s Manned Space Engineering Office and the European Space Agency.
Since the new school building was not yet ready, the school met for a month or more in the warehouse of the Southern Pacific Depot.