Wondering how to use Pows in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning .
Pows meaning
plural of pow
Using Pows
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of pow
- In the example corpus, pows often appears in combinations such as: the pows, pows were, pows in.
Context around Pows
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pows
- In this selection, "pows" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, american, british, communism, died, hands and held stand out and add context to how "pows" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 167 other pows with them and accommodate all pows in south. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pows" sits close to words such as admiring, aerosol and angolan, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pows
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I wonder if American POWs had shampoo? (7 words)
American POWs of the Vietnam War endured unfathomable conditions, abuse, and torture. (12 words)
The released POWs include troops who held out in Mariupol during Moscow’s long siege, officials said. (17 words)
Chinese claimed that UN soldiers helped anti-Communism POWs to torture Chinese POWs, such as to put anti-Communism tattoos on their body by force, so that they would have to refuse to be repatriated back to the north. (39 words)
The major issue that divides the Communist and UN sides is the return of the POWs with the Communists demanding that all POWs from their nations be repatriated while the UN insists on voluntary repatriation. (35 words)
Based on a true story, this 2001 war flick centres on a group of POWs in a Japanese prison camp, building the Burma Railway during the last years of World War II. (32 words)
I wonder if American POWs had shampoo? (7 words)
Example sentences (20)
According to the reports of China, over a thousand U.S. POWs died by the end of June 1951, while only a dozen British POWs died, and all Turkish POW survived.
Chinese claimed that UN soldiers helped anti-Communism POWs to torture Chinese POWs, such as to put anti-Communism tattoos on their body by force, so that they would have to refuse to be repatriated back to the north.
Japanese soldiers took most of the morning tying all of the POWs' hands together; in the dusk, the soldiers divided POWs into four columns and opened fire.
The capture of 400 POWs in February 1900 was a key event, which made the British realise they could not accommodate all POWs in South Africa.
The major issue that divides the Communist and UN sides is the return of the POWs with the Communists demanding that all POWs from their nations be repatriated while the UN insists on voluntary repatriation.
This did not mean any change in status for Italian POWs however, since due to the labour shortages in the UK and the USA, they were retained as POWs there.
According to media reports, the POWs are Ukrainian citizens of Hungarian ethnic backgrounds from the Transcarpathian region of the country.
American POWs of the Vietnam War endured unfathomable conditions, abuse, and torture.
Based on a true story, this 2001 war flick centres on a group of POWs in a Japanese prison camp, building the Burma Railway during the last years of World War II.
Captured by Moscow during its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the POWs were transferred to Hungary earlier this month, with the help of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Christina (right) looks on while Hajiji presents ang pows to the lion dance team during the charity dinner.
I wonder if American POWs had shampoo?
Still restive when the war in Vietnam ended and the POWs held in Hanoi came home, the phrases caught new wind.
The Oct. 3, 1945 issue of the Daily Alaska Empire newspaper reports that the surviving Attuan POWs have been released.
The released POWs include troops who held out in Mariupol during Moscow’s long siege, officials said.
Unlike Russia, Ukraine cannot afford to properly rotate, replace wounded, and let former POWs end their enlistment.
When the Russian military retreated from Chernobyl and the rest of the Kyiv region at the end of March, they took Serhii and 167 other POWs with them.
A Russian military transport plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) crashed in Russia's Belgorod region, near Ukraine.
In July 2023, the embassy also commemorated the 70th anniversary of the “Presidential Pardon for Japanese POWs” at Quirino’s memorial in the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
Kyiv has neither confirmed nor denied that its forces downed a Russian military transport plane that day, and Russia's claim that the crash killed Ukrainian POWs could not be independently verified.
Common combinations with pows
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the pows 15×
- pows were 13×
- pows in 11×
- of pows 9×
- american pows 9×
- pows to 7×
- pows and 6×
- allied pows 5×
- soviet pows 5×
- other pows 4×