How do you use Rebus in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like problem, plus the exact meaning.
Rebus in a sentence
Rebus meaning
- An arrangement of pictures, symbols, or words representing phrases or words, especially as a word puzzle.
- A pictographic component of a compound character (e.g. sinograph) used to hint at the pronunciation of the compound.
- An arrangement of pictures on a coat of arms which suggests the name of the person to whom it belongs.
Synonyms of Rebus
Using Rebus
- The main meaning on this page is: An arrangement of pictures, symbols, or words representing phrases or words, especially as a word puzzle. | A pictographic component of a compound character (e.g. sinograph) used to hint at the pronunciation of the compound. | An arrangement of pictures on a coat of arms which suggests the name of the person to whom it belongs.
- Useful related words include: problem.
- In the example corpus, rebus often appears in combinations such as: rebus novel.
Context around Rebus
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Rebus
- In this selection, "rebus" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, predictably, envisaged, forthcoming, novel, ended and conference stand out and add context to how "rebus" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a 22nd rebus novel out and a second rebus stage play. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "rebus" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with rebus
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
What is BBC's Rebus about? (6 words)
While Richard Rankin added: “I am thrilled that Rebus will premiere on the BBC. (14 words)
Mr Burke's attachment to the project has been warmly welcomed by Rebus' creator, Ian Rankin. (16 words)
Predictably, Rebus is unfazed by all the shenanigans and spends most of his time in the library while effectively steering his old police comrades in the right direction as he begins to get a handle on just who is setting up whom and why. (44 words)
There is still to be seen on the wall of his prison in the Tower of London a rebus consisting of the symbol of a bell with an A upon it and the name Thomas above, which he carved during his confinement. (42 words)
Rankin said he was due to start writing a novel in the autumn and work was also under way on a second Rebus stage play following the success of Long Shadows, which toured the UK after opening in Birmingham last September. (41 words)
What is BBC's Rebus about? (6 words)
Example sentences (15)
Predictably, Rebus is unfazed by all the shenanigans and spends most of his time in the library while effectively steering his old police comrades in the right direction as he begins to get a handle on just who is setting up whom and why.
Since then, she took on a number of TV roles, including playing Principal Quinn in Half Moon Investigations in 2009, shortly after Rebus ended.
What is BBC's Rebus about?
While Richard Rankin added: “I am thrilled that Rebus will premiere on the BBC.
Everything else I dredged up could not be crammed into that space without a rebus, but I stopped short of that and just consulted a map.
Ian Rankin says he has never watched any of the television adaptions of his famously brooding, heavy drinking, loner detective because he didn’t want the actors’ faces replacing how he envisaged Rebus in his head.
There, I met the a-ma-zing DCC Low Carbon Team who asked me to speak at their forthcoming REBUS conference, and that was how I got involved in Climate Change.
Mr Burke's attachment to the project has been warmly welcomed by Rebus' creator, Ian Rankin.
Rankin said he was due to start writing a novel in the autumn and work was also under way on a second Rebus stage play following the success of Long Shadows, which toured the UK after opening in Birmingham last September.
The author held forth on his love of comics, early interest in taboo worlds and, with a 22nd Rebus novel out, how he keeps his famous detective fresh.
Ian Rankin took the title of his 2015 Rebus novel, Even Dogs in the Wild, from a track on The Affectionate Punch, and the song itself has a role in the story.
It was in connexion with this cause that he wrote his books "De jure Menevensis Ecclesiâ" and "De Rebus a Se Gestis".
Occasionally okurigana coincide with the phonetic (rebus) component of phono-semantic Chinese characters, which reflects that they fill the same role of phonetic complement.
Scottish crime fiction has been a major area of growth, particularly the success of Edinburgh's Ian Rankin and his Inspector Rebus novels.
There is still to be seen on the wall of his prison in the Tower of London a rebus consisting of the symbol of a bell with an A upon it and the name Thomas above, which he carved during his confinement.
Common combinations with rebus
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: