Below you will find example sentences with "two lines". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Two Lines in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: lines
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 15
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 29.4 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 10 start, 9 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "two lines" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 29.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as the first two lines of the, a mere two lines the only, first, stanza and use stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with two weeks, two daughters and two years, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with two lines
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
There were two lines of people, queuing in front of two ticket desks. (13 words)
In " uta-garuta ", players try to find the last two lines of a waka given the first three lines. (19 words)
The first two lines of the function create quosures; the next two lines use bang bangs to use the quosures. (20 words)
It seemed more than coincidence that we had two lines of Dyer families in South Portland, running two different shipyards in Ferry Village; Jackie was able to work her genealogical magic and went back yet another generation to find the link. (41 words)
Larrabee, p. 196 The need for the two lines to actually reach parallel lines so they might fully engage led Graves to give conflicting signals that were interpreted critically differently by Admiral Hood, directing the rear squadron, than Graves intended. (40 words)
A diagram that is not a forest diagram is called a loop diagram, and an example is one where two lines of an X are joined to external lines, while the remaining two lines are joined to each other. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
A diagram that is not a forest diagram is called a loop diagram, and an example is one where two lines of an X are joined to external lines, while the remaining two lines are joined to each other.
The first two lines of the first verse of Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika are sung in Nelson Mandela's native Xhosa, with the second two lines in Zulu.
The first two lines of the function create quosures; the next two lines use bang bangs to use the quosures.
The top two lines accounted for 15 of the Flyers’ 29 shot attempts at 5-on-5 (22 were taken by forwards), as the bottom two lines struggled to get much of anything going offensively.
Those two lines may not sound like a terrorizing group of six, but looking at what else the Rangers were offering that night these two groups were their best lines.
Additionally, the tube is heated to prevent rime ice formation on the tube. citation There are two lines from the tube down to the devices to measure the difference in pressure of the two lines.
For the purposes of this rule, a line from the spot to itself counts as two attached lines and new spots are counted as having two lines already attached to them.
The lyrics employ the five most widely spoken of South Africa's eleven official languages – Xhosa (first stanza, first two lines), Zulu (first stanza, last two lines), Sesotho (second stanza), Afrikaans (third stanza), and English (final stanza).
In rational geometry the spread between two lines is defined at the square of the sine of the angle between the lines.
In Richard III, Oxford's reply to the king noted by Looney is a mere two lines, the only lines he speaks in the play.
In " uta-garuta ", players try to find the last two lines of a waka given the first three lines.
Larrabee, p. 196 The need for the two lines to actually reach parallel lines so they might fully engage led Graves to give conflicting signals that were interpreted critically differently by Admiral Hood, directing the rear squadron, than Graves intended.
The last two lines appear to have inspired T. S. Eliot in "Lines to a Yorkshire Terrier" (in Five-Finger Exercises).
The subway system has 24 stations on two lines, the Orange and Green lines, distributed along a total network of convert, covering some of the metropolitan area.
The two lines were approaching at an angle so that the leading ships of the vans of both lines were within range of each other, while the ships at the rear were too far apart to engage.
The two lines would remain at a small distance to be able to effectively use their spears, while the psiloi threw stones and javelins from behind their lines.
The winner was the first player whose tokens were arranged in two lines of three (which by definition were intersecting lines).
There were two lines of people, queuing in front of two ticket desks.
Use two-metre poles for the climbing frame, arranging, in the open ground, in a traditional A-shape with two lines of plants merging at the top, or, in a planter close to a wall to support the poles.
It seemed more than coincidence that we had two lines of Dyer families in South Portland, running two different shipyards in Ferry Village; Jackie was able to work her genealogical magic and went back yet another generation to find the link.