Explore Shalit through 8 example sentences from English. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Using Shalit
- In the example corpus, shalit often appears in combinations such as: gilad shalit.
Context around Shalit
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shalit
- In this selection, "shalit" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 31 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, gilad, ruth, gene, deal and correctly stand out and add context to how "shalit" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include soldier gilad shalit and critic gene shalit correctly guessed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shalit" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shalit
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Two years earlier, in 2006, an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, had been kidnapped in a daring cross-border raid. (19 words)
None recognized him and it took several rounds of question-and-answer before movie critic Gene Shalit correctly guessed he was a governor. (23 words)
After being detained in Israeli prisons, he was released in 2011 as part of an exchange for the release of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier held hostage for five years. (30 words)
In the most infamous of these, Israel released more than a thousand prisoners for one soldier, Gilad Shalit, a trade that included Yahya Sinwar, the author of the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7 that cost 1200 Israeli lives. (40 words)
He was sentenced to life in prison and ended up serving 22 years in an Israeli jail until his release in 2011 as part of a prisoner exchange for the abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. (35 words)
Free advice to all magazine editors: don’t hire the multi-plagiarist Ruth Shalit, whose racist attempt to disparage the Washington Post’s diversity was undone by her own weak reporting, to write for you. (35 words)
Example sentences (8)
He has been arrested by Israel multiple times and spent 24 years in Israeli prisons: he was freed in 2011, as part of a prisoner swap in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
He was sentenced to life in prison and ended up serving 22 years in an Israeli jail until his release in 2011 as part of a prisoner exchange for the abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
After being detained in Israeli prisons, he was released in 2011 as part of an exchange for the release of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier held hostage for five years.
In the most infamous of these, Israel released more than a thousand prisoners for one soldier, Gilad Shalit, a trade that included Yahya Sinwar, the author of the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7 that cost 1200 Israeli lives.
Two years earlier, in 2006, an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, had been kidnapped in a daring cross-border raid.
Free advice to all magazine editors: don’t hire the multi-plagiarist Ruth Shalit, whose racist attempt to disparage the Washington Post’s diversity was undone by her own weak reporting, to write for you.
Gershon Baskin, the Israeli who helped negotiate the Shalit deal by opening an unofficial back channel with Hamas, said he wasn’t surprised that the photo was so widely recognized among Israeli Jews.
None recognized him and it took several rounds of question-and-answer before movie critic Gene Shalit correctly guessed he was a governor.
Common combinations with shalit
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: