How do you use Puna in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Puna in a sentence
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Puna meaning
An alpine biological community in the central portion of the Andes in which short, coarse grass supports a Native American population.
Using Puna
- The main meaning on this page is: An alpine biological community in the central portion of the Andes in which short, coarse grass supports a Native American population.
- In the example corpus, puna often appears in combinations such as: the puna, in puna, puna district.
Context around Puna
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 5 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Puna
- In this selection, "puna" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, wild, feeding, 2014, farm, gets and hawaii stand out and add context to how "puna" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include puna hawaiʻi the and and the puna district. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "puna" sits close to words such as abbasid, abdicate and adapters, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with puna
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A body was found hanging from a tree in Puna around 4:45 p.m. (15 words)
On Wednesday evenings, a popular spot for live music and gathering in lower Puna is awa bar. (17 words)
At 4:21 p.m. HST, forecasters said, radar indicated heavy rain over Hilo and Puna districts. (17 words)
It’s may be impossible to find anything hotter than the lava pouring out of Kīlauea, but Wild Puna Farm, a small organic farm located in the District of Puna, gets pretty close with its Hawaiian Hot Pepper Sauce. (39 words)
The shrubby vegetation of the Puna is a poor source of heating fuel, and heating in Olaroz has depended for years on trucks that bring in firewood, provided by the provincial government. (32 words)
But many of the participants who have ancestral ties to the area want to see the boat ramp returned to use, so that fisherman can get back to work feeding Puna. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
PUNA, Hawaiʻi - The man who was with Kala‘i Reyes Kanekoa when she died of drowning off the cliffs of Puna has been arrested for a different incident, police say.
It’s may be impossible to find anything hotter than the lava pouring out of Kīlauea, but Wild Puna Farm, a small organic farm located in the District of Puna, gets pretty close with its Hawaiian Hot Pepper Sauce.
PUNA, Hawaiʻi - The Hawai‘i Department of Health Clean Air Branch has issued Notices and Finding of Violation and Orders against seven companies, two of them in Puna.
PUNA, Hawaii - The situation at Puna Geothermal venture is being closely monitored and civil defense says there "is no immediate threat to any of the wells" at this time.
But many of the participants who have ancestral ties to the area want to see the boat ramp returned to use, so that fisherman can get back to work feeding Puna.
Chief Ben Moszkowicz said Kaliloa exemplified the best of the department, as evidenced by his 2012 Officer of the Month award and being named 2014 Puna Officer of the Year.
On Wednesday evenings, a popular spot for live music and gathering in lower Puna is awa bar.
The opening of the new Mosgiel pool, Te Puna o Whakaehu, is a major positive step forward for the town, surrounding areas and wider Dunedin.
When he was about 18 years old, the Pāhoa High School graduate began to notice a change in Puna.
No injuries were reported after the Hawai‘i Fire Department responded to two fires early Thursday morning — the first in Puna and the other in Kona.
She was last seen in Hilo on Aug. 23 and is known to frequent the downtown Hilo area and the Puna District.
At 4:21 p.m. HST, forecasters said, radar indicated heavy rain over Hilo and Puna districts.
At the Puna power plant, construction of the electrical substation and transmission lines is completed, and the power plant is currently connected to the transmission lines.
Puna’s State Senator Russell Ruderman was not in attendance, but he did provide a written statement which was read aloud by Burrows.
The coprolite was dug up in a cave in the mountainous Catamarca Province on the southern Puna plateau of northern Argentina.
The Hawai‘i Police Department’s Puna Community Police ask residents and visitors alike to take the role as an observer: Watch for suspicious activity and notifying the police.
There were strong currents and large waves along the rocky shoreline of the popular Puna beach, the fire department reports.
The shrubby vegetation of the Puna is a poor source of heating fuel, and heating in Olaroz has depended for years on trucks that bring in firewood, provided by the provincial government.
A body was found hanging from a tree in Puna around 4:45 p.m.
A High Surf Advisory remains in effect for east facing shores of North Kohala, Hamakua, North and South Hilo, Puna and Ka‘u remains in effect through tonight.
Common combinations with puna
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the puna 14×
- in puna 13×
- puna district 11×
- puna and 5×
- lower puna 4×
- puna hawaiʻi 3×
- of puna 3×
- puna hawaii 3×
- puna is 3×
- and puna 3×