Get to know Preysing better with 8 real example sentences.
Using Preysing
- In the example corpus, preysing often appears in combinations such as: and preysing.
Context around Preysing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Preysing
- In this selection, "preysing" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hated, director, bishop, bludgeons, wallace and sees stand out and add context to how "preysing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 154 bishop preysing cautioned against and always hated preysing s guts. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "preysing" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with preysing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Preysing interrupts them and imperiously demands she join him. (9 words)
Surprised by his uncharacteristic audacity, Preysing attacks Kringelein and the two men must be separated. (15 words)
He confronts the Baron; the two struggle, and Preysing bludgeons the Baron with the telephone, killing him. (17 words)
Scholder, The Churches and the Third Reich, ii, p. 154 Bishop Preysing cautioned against compromise with the new regime, against those who saw the Nazi persecution of the church as an aberration that Hitler would correct. (36 words)
Kringelein's former employer, industrialist General Director Preysing ( Wallace Beery ), is at the hotel to close an important deal, and he hires stenographer Flaemmchen ( Joan Crawford ) to assist him. (29 words)
Irritated by his former employer's coarse behavior, Kringelein – who is aware of Preysing's many swindles – tells him what he thinks of him. (24 words)
Example sentences (8)
He insists he acted in self-defense, but Kringelein, whom always hated Preysing's guts, summons the police and Preysing is arrested.
He confronts the Baron; the two struggle, and Preysing bludgeons the Baron with the telephone, killing him.
Irritated by his former employer's coarse behavior, Kringelein – who is aware of Preysing's many swindles – tells him what he thinks of him.
Kringelein's former employer, industrialist General Director Preysing ( Wallace Beery ), is at the hotel to close an important deal, and he hires stenographer Flaemmchen ( Joan Crawford ) to assist him.
Later, when the two are in her room, which opens on to his, Preysing sees the shadow of the Baron rifling through his belongings.
Preysing interrupts them and imperiously demands she join him.
Scholder, The Churches and the Third Reich, ii, p. 154 Bishop Preysing cautioned against compromise with the new regime, against those who saw the Nazi persecution of the church as an aberration that Hitler would correct.
Surprised by his uncharacteristic audacity, Preysing attacks Kringelein and the two men must be separated.
Common combinations with preysing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: