Quires is an English word. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Quires meaning
plural of quire
Using Quires
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of quire
- In the example corpus, quires often appears in combinations such as: of quires, quires of.
Context around Quires
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Quires
- In this selection, "quires" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, eighteen and units stand out and add context to how "quires" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include exceptions of quires of eight and into eighteen quires units of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "quires" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with quires
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The manuscript measures convert, with hundreds of vellum pages collected into eighteen quires (units of 25 pages). (17 words)
I have not seen complete Bibles but only a number of quires of various books of the Bible. (18 words)
The whole codex consists, with a few exceptions, of quires of eight leaves, a format popular throughout the Middle Ages. (20 words)
In the Offices of Matins and Evensong in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, these choral establishments are specified as "Quires and Places where they sing". (26 words)
The whole codex consists, with a few exceptions, of quires of eight leaves, a format popular throughout the Middle Ages. (20 words)
I have not seen complete Bibles but only a number of quires of various books of the Bible. (18 words)
Example sentences (4)
I have not seen complete Bibles but only a number of quires of various books of the Bible.
In the Offices of Matins and Evensong in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, these choral establishments are specified as "Quires and Places where they sing".
The manuscript measures convert, with hundreds of vellum pages collected into eighteen quires (units of 25 pages).
The whole codex consists, with a few exceptions, of quires of eight leaves, a format popular throughout the Middle Ages.
Common combinations with quires
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of quires 2×
- quires of 2×