Shawshank is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Shawshank in a sentence
Shawshank meaning
- To escape, especially by tunneling out or without warning.
- To punish (someone) for something that they did not do.
- To accomplish something by doing a little bit at a time over a long period of time.
Using Shawshank
- The main meaning on this page is: To escape, especially by tunneling out or without warning. | To punish (someone) for something that they did not do. | To accomplish something by doing a little bit at a time over a long period of time.
- In the example corpus, shawshank often appears in combinations such as: shawshank redemption, the shawshank, to shawshank.
Context around Shawshank
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shawshank
- In this selection, "shawshank" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, soon, shirts, redemption, went and jokes stand out and add context to how "shawshank" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include adaptations the shawshank redemption created and ago the shawshank redemption finished. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shawshank" sits close to words such as abbe, abeyance and abp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shawshank
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This is to refer back to The Shawshank Redemption. (9 words)
Morgan Freeman On The Shawshank Redemption: “Thankful To Everyone Who Made. (11 words)
There would surely be backlash if The Shawshank Redemption was remade. (11 words)
The It and Carrie writer, 75, many of whose have been made into incredibly successful movies including The Shawshank Redemption, likes to listen to music while he’s writing, having cycled through artists as varied as Fat Boy Slim and Gloria Gaynor. (42 words)
Based on Stephen King’s novella, director Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption is considered by some to be the greatest film of all time, and is definitely one of the best movies on Hulu. (35 words)
They used the tools to break through walls and pipes at the maximum-security prison that hadn't had an escape in a century, drawing comparisons to the film classic The Shawshank Redemption. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
A poster of Welch covers an escape tunnel in the film “The Shawshank Redemption,” the third of three characters Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) used after Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe.
Ben Onwukwe’s theatre credits include the UK tours of The Shawshank Redemption and Black Men Walking.
In the film “The Shawshank Redemption,” a poster of Welch covers an escape tunnel — the last of three that character Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) used after Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe.
The answer to the question "is the Shawshank Redemption a true story" is simply that it is not.
The It and Carrie writer, 75, many of whose have been made into incredibly successful movies including The Shawshank Redemption, likes to listen to music while he’s writing, having cycled through artists as varied as Fat Boy Slim and Gloria Gaynor.
After being put in prison for a crime he says he didn't commit, Andy Dufresne () is sent to Shawshank — one of the worst prisons in the state.
Free airplay turned into free promotion—and soon, Shawshank went from box office dud to a cable sensation.
He's an important man in Shawshank, the librarian, an educated man, but that's not how he would appear in the outside world after fifty years behind bars.
This is to refer back to The Shawshank Redemption.
Based on Stephen King’s novella, director Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption is considered by some to be the greatest film of all time, and is definitely one of the best movies on Hulu.
Morgan Freeman On The Shawshank Redemption: “Thankful To Everyone Who Made.
Of course, no list of quotes from The Shawshank Redemption would be complete without this gem.
There would surely be backlash if The Shawshank Redemption was remade.
They used the tools to break through walls and pipes at the maximum-security prison that hadn't had an escape in a century, drawing comparisons to the film classic The Shawshank Redemption.
Three-time Oscar nominee Frank Darabont, best known for his Stephen King adaptations The Shawshank Redemption, created the TV series.
Bill Skarsgard’s ageless reality-hopper, last seen grinning evilly in the dark of his cell below Shawshank State Penitentiary, has returned.
It stars Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins and is based on King’s novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.
It was a knife-edge day of fresh shirts, Shawshank jokes and tortuous talks that see-sawed between hope and.
The Shawshank Redemption, which was released in 1994, saw groundbreaking performances from Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.
Twenty-five years ago, The Shawshank Redemption finished as a first-run failure that seemed sentenced to obscurity.
Common combinations with shawshank
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- shawshank redemption 20×
- the shawshank 17×
- to shawshank 2×
- in shawshank 2×
- shawshank the 2×
- and shawshank 2×
- at shawshank 2×