Portes is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Portes meaning
A surname from Catalan.
Using Portes
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname from Catalan.
- In the example corpus, portes often appears in combinations such as: thomas portes, portes has.
Context around Portes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Portes
- In this selection, "portes" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, thomas, felix, prof, started, mentions and set stand out and add context to how "portes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include portes p 8 and addition prof portes said there. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "portes" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with portes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Portes started her new position Jan. (6 words)
Hernandez's arrest was confirmed by Dominican Republic-based criminal lawyer Felix Portes. (13 words)
Portes p. 7-8 Two examples of consummatory social capital are value interjection and solidarity. (15 words)
Portes p. 8-9 Measurement There is no widely held consensus on how to measure social capital, which has become a debate in itself: why refer to this phenomenon as 'capital' if there is no true way to measure it? (40 words)
French opposition lawmaker Thomas Portes has called for the deportation of Israel’s Paris Ambassador Alona Fisher-Kamm, whom he accused of attacking press freedom to “stifle the genocide in Gaza,” the Anadolu news agency reported. (36 words)
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin the “disgust” he felt at Portes’s remarks, which he said “smack of antisemitism”, adding that the MP was putting “a target on the backs of Israeli athletes”. (32 words)
Portes p. 8-9 Measurement There is no widely held consensus on how to measure social capital, which has become a debate in itself: why refer to this phenomenon as 'capital' if there is no true way to measure it? (40 words)
Example sentences (15)
Hernandez's arrest was confirmed by Dominican Republic-based criminal lawyer Felix Portes.
In addition, Prof Portes said there is “little evidence” that the UK is “overtaxed”, but added reform to remove elements of the system which are “inefficient and unfair” could boost growth.
French opposition lawmaker Thomas Portes has called for the deportation of Israel’s Paris Ambassador Alona Fisher-Kamm, whom he accused of attacking press freedom to “stifle the genocide in Gaza,” the Anadolu news agency reported.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin the “disgust” he felt at Portes’s remarks, which he said “smack of antisemitism”, adding that the MP was putting “a target on the backs of Israeli athletes”.
On the other hand, Portes, with 13 wins (six by knockout), absorbed his 17th loss in 30 bouts.
Portes started her new position Jan.
Similarly, Professor Jonathan Portes at Kings’ College London thinks that the implementation of tariffs could mean a “severe shock to the global economy, including the UK”.
Thomas Portes, also of the LFI, posted on X that the government had offered "no guarantees, just words".
Luis Portes, an economics professor at Montclair State’s Feliciano School of Business, contributes to the ongoing exchange between the two cities.
On top of this, Portes has identified four negative consequences of social capital: exclusion of outsiders; excess claims on group members; restrictions on individual freedom; and downward levelling norms.
Portes p. 7-8 Two examples of consummatory social capital are value interjection and solidarity.
Portes p. 8-9 Measurement There is no widely held consensus on how to measure social capital, which has become a debate in itself: why refer to this phenomenon as 'capital' if there is no true way to measure it?
Portes p. 8 The second of these two other sub-sources of social capital is that of instrumental social capital.
The best example of this, and the one that Portes mentions, is the donation of a scholarship to a member of the same ethnic group.
There are four games of Tavli commonly played: Portes: Set-up and rules the same as backgammon, except that backgammons count as gammons (2 points) and there is no doubling cube.
Common combinations with portes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: