Plovers is an English word. Below you'll find 9 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Plovers meaning
plural of plover
Using Plovers
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of plover
- In the example corpus, plovers often appears in combinations such as: semipalmated plovers, piping plovers, plovers and.
Context around Plovers
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Plovers
- In this selection, "plovers" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, semipalmated, piping, kentish, remain, usually and breeding stand out and add context to how "plovers" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and many plovers carry water and and semipalmated plovers at eel. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "plovers" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with plovers
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Jen Rock frequently travels to Caribbean countries in search of plovers. (11 words)
Toronto has rare piping plovers breeding on its busy beach, jealously protected by neighbours. (14 words)
Snowy plovers also arrive at Mono Lake each spring to nest along the remote eastern shores. (16 words)
Nesting sandgrouse and many plovers carry water to their young by wetting their belly feathers. citation Some birds carry water for chicks at the nest in their crop or regurgitate it along with food. (34 words)
And Bridget Dunnigan reports finding oystercatchers and semipalmated plovers at Eel Pond on Oct. 6 as well as greater yellowlegs, laughing gull and black skimmers on Sarson’s Island. (29 words)
The analysis also showed the breeding group is genetically and phenotypically distinct from the migratory Kentish plovers and the Chinese white-faced plover. (23 words)
Example sentences (9)
Adults depart on migration by the end of July or early August and few semipalmated plovers remain here after mid-August.
Great Lakes piping plovers usually spend the winter along the Atlantic coast in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
The analysis also showed the breeding group is genetically and phenotypically distinct from the migratory Kentish plovers and the Chinese white-faced plover.
Toronto has rare piping plovers breeding on its busy beach, jealously protected by neighbours.
And Bridget Dunnigan reports finding oystercatchers and semipalmated plovers at Eel Pond on Oct. 6 as well as greater yellowlegs, laughing gull and black skimmers on Sarson’s Island.
Jen Rock frequently travels to Caribbean countries in search of plovers.
A dozen species of woodpeckers have been reported, as have a similar number of species of warblers, plovers and gulls.
Nesting sandgrouse and many plovers carry water to their young by wetting their belly feathers. citation Some birds carry water for chicks at the nest in their crop or regurgitate it along with food.
Snowy plovers also arrive at Mono Lake each spring to nest along the remote eastern shores.
Common combinations with plovers
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: