Priestley is an English word with synonyms like chemist. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Priestley meaning
- A surname from Old English.
- An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States.
Synonyms of Priestley
Using Priestley
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname from Old English. | An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States.
- Useful related words include: joseph priestley, chemist.
- In the example corpus, priestley often appears in combinations such as: joseph priestley, priestley and, and priestley.
Context around Priestley
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 7 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Priestley
- In this selection, "priestley" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, miranda, joseph, doubt, joseph, preaching and responds stand out and add context to how "priestley" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 354 dr priestley now moved and as miranda priestley. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "priestley" sits close to words such as agri, ajayi and amicable, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with priestley
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Former F1 mechanic Marc Priestley: The British Grand Prix. (9 words)
Priestley wrapped the knee around the bottom rope and kicked away at it. (13 words)
Shelburne blamed Priestley's health, while Priestley claimed Shelburne had no further use for him. (15 words)
Staffs struggled when batting first, and if it was not for Priestley’s 57 off 45 balls – striking six fours and two sixes in his innings – they would not have had much to defend, but they crept up to 119 all out. (42 words)
Priestley, who has been running a long-term performance coaching relationship with the Bermuda national sailing team, coached Penruddocke through the Olympic qualification competition at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, in October 2023. (35 words)
Priestley, preaching in front of Charles James Fox who asks "Pray, Doctor, is there such a thing as a Devil?", to which Priestley responds "No" while the devil prepares to attack Priestley from behind. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
He regularly attended Joseph Priestley 's Pennsylvania church when he was nearby, and said that Priestley's theology was his own, and there is no doubt Priestley should be identified as Unitarian.
Priestley, preaching in front of Charles James Fox who asks "Pray, Doctor, is there such a thing as a Devil?", to which Priestley responds "No" while the devil prepares to attack Priestley from behind.
Graham and Smith focus on Priestley's life in America and Uglow and Jackson both discuss Priestley's life in the context of other developments in science.
Jefferson and Priestley became close, and when he had completed his General History of the Christian Church, Priestley, Joseph.
Priestley, Autobiography, 87. On 17 April 1763, they had a daughter, whom they named Sarah after Priestley's aunt.
Priestley defended his friend in the pamphlet Letter to a Layman, on the Subject of the Rev. Mr. Lindsey's Proposal for a Reformed English Church (1774), Priestley, Joseph.
Rutt, I(ii), 354. Dr Priestley now moved in with his elder son, Joseph Jr., and wife Elizabeth Ryland-Priestley.
Shelburne blamed Priestley's health, while Priestley claimed Shelburne had no further use for him.
Let’s harken back to that chilling scene from The Devil Wears Prada in which Miranda Priestley eyes Andy’s dorky pair of loafers before dismissing her with a searing: “That’s all”.
Staffs struggled when batting first, and if it was not for Priestley’s 57 off 45 balls – striking six fours and two sixes in his innings – they would not have had much to defend, but they crept up to 119 all out.
A procedural comedy-drama series airing on television network, the TV show stars Vanessa Morgan, Giacomo Gianniotti, Terry Chen, Jason Priestley, Michael Xavier, Amy Goodmurphy, Fletcher Donovan, and Jonesy.
Former F1 mechanic Marc Priestley: The British Grand Prix.
Hutchinson bagged his brace from the spot after Earing was upended inside the box, and Priestley Farquharson scored his maiden goal for Walsall.
Priestley explored his living circumstances with the 60-year-old star in his self-titled memoir published in May 2014.
Priestley, who has been running a long-term performance coaching relationship with the Bermuda national sailing team, coached Penruddocke through the Olympic qualification competition at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, in October 2023.
Since then, he has sat front row at eight more Balenciaga shows impersonating celebrities in character and out: Glenn Close as Cruella DeVil, Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestley.
That brings the story back to Avery, who has a personal relationship with the legendary editor and real life Miranda Priestley.
Board President Steve Priestley, himself a former superintendent, described Midkiff as the best superintendent he had worked with.
Priestley wrapped the knee around the bottom rope and kicked away at it.
The Book Society was run by a selection committee of literary celebrities–the likes of J.B. Priestley, Sylvia Lynd, George Gordon, Edmund Blunden, and Cecil Day-Lewis–chaired by bestselling novelist Hugh Walpole.
Common combinations with priestley
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- joseph priestley 11×
- priestley and 10×
- and priestley 4×
- priestley was 4×
- priestley in 4×
- priestley joseph 3×
- miranda priestley 3×
- jason priestley 3×
- priestley who 3×
- of priestley 3×