Sheng is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Sheng meaning
A Chinese wind instrument, a free-reed mouth organ consisting of 13 or more bamboo pipes of various lengths, which are fixed at their bases in a wind chest made from a dried gourd (or, more recently, wood or chrome-plated brass).
Using Sheng
- The main meaning on this page is: A Chinese wind instrument, a free-reed mouth organ consisting of 13 or more bamboo pipes of various lengths, which are fixed at their bases in a wind chest made from a dried gourd (or, more recently, wood or chrome-plated brass).
- In the example corpus, sheng often appears in combinations such as: mayor sheng, sheng thao, sheng sheng.
Context around Sheng
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 4 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sheng
- In this selection, "sheng" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mayor, chun, wang, thao, huang and jian stand out and add context to how "sheng" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include oakland mayor sheng thao and and against mayor sheng thao and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sheng" sits close to words such as abbe, abdollahian and abergavenny, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sheng
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Eric Sheng Huang at his Arcadia High graduation. (8 words)
Sheng jian bao from Kang Kang Food Court in Alhambra. (10 words)
Qiu Sheng’s feature debut “Suburban Birds” travels through more enigmatic fictional territory. (13 words)
In the film, the dying master (Dick Wei) of Venom House sends his last pupil, Yang Tieh (Chiang Sheng), to track down five former students and dispatch them if they are using what they learned under their master's tutelage for evil. (42 words)
Staff at the facility where Sheng has worked for 29 years now take shifts around the clock, in case a call comes from the hospital in the middle of the night to collect the body of a coronavirus victim, he said. (41 words)
The award-winning firm behind The Sail, Sheng Tai International is one of Asia’s most prominent developers and has established this strategic partnership to utilise LH1 Global’s extensive worldwide reach for the upcoming launch of M Tower. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Wang Sheng Sheng, a 49-year-old originally from the western province of Qinghai, said his decision to leave China came down to a variety of reasons.
Auckland Mayor Sheng Thao criticized the announcement and said the city was “pausing negotiations and moving forward” to other options.
Detailed rules of lowering existing mortgage rates haven't come out yet, and it's hard to gauge its impact on banks' profits at this stage, said Sheng.
Eric Sheng Huang at his Arcadia High graduation.
In the film, the dying master (Dick Wei) of Venom House sends his last pupil, Yang Tieh (Chiang Sheng), to track down five former students and dispatch them if they are using what they learned under their master's tutelage for evil.
Mayor Sheng Thao has called on the Oakland Police Department Interim Chief Darren Allison to investigate the vandalism as a hate crime.
The A's were banking on $395 million, and Nevada legislators are saying they'd offer $195 million, prompting Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao to say that there's still a chance the A's will stay in Oakland.
Frustration over crime has caused political fallout in City Hall and the top law enforcement office in Alameda County, galvanizing recall efforts against Mayor Sheng Thao, and District Attorney Pamela Price.
In November, East Bay voters ousted two other progressives, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and Alameda County Dist. Atty. Pamela Price.
Sheng jian bao from Kang Kang Food Court in Alhambra.
The award-winning firm behind The Sail, Sheng Tai International is one of Asia’s most prominent developers and has established this strategic partnership to utilise LH1 Global’s extensive worldwide reach for the upcoming launch of M Tower.
The commission will give their recommendations on finalists to Mayor Sheng Thao Friday morning.
The FBI's investigation into Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and the Duong family is expanding.
Chun Sheng was the third cub to be born in the centre this year after a pair of male cubs, which had been delivered by 16-year-old panda Fuwa, or the 'lucky doll'.
Staff at the facility where Sheng has worked for 29 years now take shifts around the clock, in case a call comes from the hospital in the middle of the night to collect the body of a coronavirus victim, he said.
Technode’s Wei Sheng reported on the unusualness of that move, as China has been historically reluctant to go after domestic businesses with antitrust suits.
The additional pressure of the pandemic “will likely shutter the U.S. coal industry for good,” said Yuan-Sheng Yu, senior analyst at Lux Research.
The worker eventually allured Chun Sheng to stay in a corner briefly while making her way out of the space swiftly.
Arthur Wang Zhin-sheng, secretary-general of the Cross-Strait Policy Association, a private research group in Taipei, said that Taiwan officials had made a smart move.
Qiu Sheng’s feature debut “Suburban Birds” travels through more enigmatic fictional territory.
Common combinations with sheng
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: