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Scytale in a sentence

Scytale meaning

A cylinder with a strip of parchment wound around it on which a message is written, used for cryptography by the ancient Spartans.

Using Scytale

  • The main meaning on this page is: A cylinder with a strip of parchment wound around it on which a message is written, used for cryptography by the ancient Spartans.
  • In the example corpus, scytale often appears in combinations such as: scytale offers.

Context around Scytale

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

kills 1× desperate 1× master 1×

Often after:

trades 1× threatens 1× machine 1× teg 1×

Sentence patterns with Scytale

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a desperate scytale trades his 1× eyes kills scytale 1× ghola of scytale is seemingly 1× have a scytale machine of 1× scytale a cipher 1× ship with scytale teg and 1× tleilaxu master scytale the only 1× way and scytale threatens the 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

however paul seeing 1× later works at 1× nearing death from 1× paul refuses to 1× scytale a cipher 1× the honored matres 1×

Common sentence endings:

and the jews 1× eyes kills scytale 1× jessica and others 1× kind left alive 1× master left alive 1× negotiates with alia 1×

Words around Scytale

Just before it in the word index:

scyphozoans 2 scyphozoan 3 scyphozoa 7 scyphomedusae 2 scylla 23 scyld 3

Just after it in the word index:

scythe 33 scythed 2 scythes 6 scythia 7 scythian 43 scythians 37

Similar in corpus frequency:

aanholt 13 aardwolf 13 abati 13 abbeville 13 abcc 13 abcon 13

Corpus analysis for Scytale

  • In this selection, "scytale" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, kills, desperate, master, trades, threatens and machine stand out and add context to how "scytale" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a desperate scytale trades his and eyes kills scytale. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "scytale" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with scytale

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

However Paul, seeing through his newborn son's eyes, kills Scytale. (11 words)

Scytale A cipher from ancient Greek times that was used to make encryptions. (13 words)

The two escape in the giant no-ship, with Scytale, Teg and the Jews. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

Nearing death from advanced age, a desperate Scytale trades his precious cell samples for permission to grow his own ghola; Duncan and the Bene Gesserit group subsequently grow gholas of Paul, Chani, Jessica, and others. (35 words)

Later works At the end of Frank Herbert's sixth and last book in the Dune series, Chapterhouse: Dune (1985), a ghola of Scytale is seemingly the only Tleilaxu Master left alive. (32 words)

Paul refuses to submit to the possibility that the Tleilaxu might program Chani in some diabolical way, and Scytale threatens the infants with a knife while he negotiates with Alia. (30 words)

Example sentences (8)

However Paul, seeing through his newborn son's eyes, kills Scytale.

Later works At the end of Frank Herbert's sixth and last book in the Dune series, Chapterhouse: Dune (1985), a ghola of Scytale is seemingly the only Tleilaxu Master left alive.

Nearing death from advanced age, a desperate Scytale trades his precious cell samples for permission to grow his own ghola; Duncan and the Bene Gesserit group subsequently grow gholas of Paul, Chani, Jessica, and others.

Paul refuses to submit to the possibility that the Tleilaxu might program Chani in some diabolical way, and Scytale threatens the infants with a knife while he negotiates with Alia.

Scytale A cipher from ancient Greek times that was used to make encryptions.

The Honored Matres have also destroyed the entire Bene Tleilax civilization, with Tleilaxu Master Scytale the only one of his kind left alive.

The only way to read the message would be to have a Scytale machine of your own.

The two escape in the giant no-ship, with Scytale, Teg and the Jews.

Common combinations with scytale

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "scytale" in a sentence?
An example: "However Paul, seeing through his newborn son's eyes, kills Scytale." This page contains 8 example sentences with the word "scytale" from authentic English texts.
What does "scytale" mean?
Scytale means: A cylinder with a strip of parchment wound around it on which a message is written, used for cryptography by the ancient Spartans.
How many example sentences with "scytale" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 8 example sentences with "scytale", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.