How do you use Seine in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like river or fishnet, plus the exact meaning.
Seine meaning
A long net having floats attached at the top and sinkers (weights) at the bottom, used in shallow water for catching fish.
Using Seine
- The main meaning on this page is: A long net having floats attached at the top and sinkers (weights) at the bottom, used in shallow water for catching fish.
- Useful related words include: seine river, river, fishnet, fishing net.
- In the example corpus, seine often appears in combinations such as: the seine, river seine, seine river.
Context around Seine
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Seine
- In this selection, "seine" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, river, annual, now, river, bight and maritime stand out and add context to how "seine" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and also seine bight village and be the seine as the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "seine" sits close to words such as abbot, adverts and apathy, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with seine
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A banner reading "school in recovery position" outside Danton elementary school in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis. (16 words)
We conducted seine netting surveys simultaneously to compare the sensitivity of both methods for estuarine pipefish detection. (17 words)
The opening ceremony is slated for the area of the Seine River and is expected to host 600,000 attendees. (20 words)
In addition to Paris, three other cities with a population over 100,000 are in the Seine watershed: Le Havre at the estuary, Rouen in the Seine valley and Reims at the northern limit—with an annual urban growth rate of 0.2 percent. (44 words)
The Paris region prefect's office said it would study solutions to meet the grain sector's needs following Thursday's meeting as part of its wider efforts to limit disruption to commercial activity on the Seine during the Olympics. (40 words)
Biography Guy de Maupassant 7 years old Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant was born 5 August 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil (Castle Miromesnil, near Dieppe in the Seine-Inférieure (now Seine-Maritime ) department in France. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
However, French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra took a dip in the Seine on Saturday and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has vowed to swim in the Seine this week.
Spectators will line both sides of the Seine River for a 3.7-mile stretch, while athletes will be the Seine as the Parade of Nations will utilize floats.
Everything will be more deep south – Mango Creek, Placencia, and also Seine Bight Village, as they are celebrating their 3-days Annual Seine Bight Day anniversary.
Biography Guy de Maupassant 7 years old Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant was born 5 August 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil (Castle Miromesnil, near Dieppe in the Seine-Inférieure (now Seine-Maritime ) department in France.
In addition to Paris, three other cities with a population over 100,000 are in the Seine watershed: Le Havre at the estuary, Rouen in the Seine valley and Reims at the northern limit—with an annual urban growth rate of 0.2 percent.
Born in 1997 in the affluent town of Neuilly-sur-Seine, west of Paris, Rajabpour-Miyandoab was born to parents of Iranian origin, in a family described by the prosecutor as having “no religious engagement”.
James Fitzgerald shows Cole Danner how to seine for nearshore minnows during the inaugural Libertyville High School Lake Day at Butler Lake.
One of the five planned Olympic routes would land in the heart of the city on a floating platform on the spruced-up River Seine.
Paratriathlon swimmers were in the Seine in competition on Thursday and Friday, but results of water quality tests showed “significant discrepancies” in the hours leading up to Saturday’s events, organisers said in a statement.
Six NDP newcomers seeking elected office are teachers: Glen Simard (Brandon East), Mike Moyes (Riel), Mike Moroz (River Heights), Billie Cross (Seine River), Mitch Obach (Selkirk) and Robert Loiselle (St. Boniface).
Some fifty tall ships from all over the world will be moored along the 7 kilometres of the Seine quay in Rouen for 10 days.
The opening ceremony is slated for the area of the Seine River and is expected to host 600,000 attendees.
The Paris region prefect's office said it would study solutions to meet the grain sector's needs following Thursday's meeting as part of its wider efforts to limit disruption to commercial activity on the Seine during the Olympics.
The Seine is also due to host triathlon and marathon swimming at Paris 2024 but there are fears about water quality.
We conducted seine netting surveys simultaneously to compare the sensitivity of both methods for estuarine pipefish detection.
While triathlon swimmers took to the Seine in competition on Thursday and Friday, water quality tests showed higher than authorised levels of bacteria ahead of a paratriathlon test event Saturday, so it was cancelled.
A banner reading "school in recovery position" outside Danton elementary school in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis.
Accompanied by his seven-year-old daughter, Lea De Seine Shayk Cooper, the duo made a captivating entrance, turning the event into a delightful family outing.
Ahmad Hazrat, a 26-year-old fleeing the Taliban in his native Afghanistan, is sharing a mangled green charity tent with two friends on the Île St-Louis, the picture postcard island in the River Seine.
Along the way, travellers experience a fine sweep of European geography as they travel from the Seine to the Spree, crossing six other major rivers along the way: the Moselle, Meuse, Rhine, Neckar, Main and Elbe.
Common combinations with seine
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the seine 87×
- river seine 20×
- seine river 19×
- seine on 8×
- seine and 8×
- seine in 7×
- seine to 7×
- de seine 5×
- en seine 5×
- seine valley 4×