How do you use Shermans in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Shermans meaning
plural of Sherman
Using Shermans
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of Sherman
- In the example corpus, shermans often appears in combinations such as: the shermans, of shermans, shermans were.
Context around Shermans
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shermans
- In this selection, "shermans" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, richard, got and went stand out and add context to how "shermans" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 50 of shermans in british and and m4 shermans recovered from. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shermans" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shermans
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Shermans went into the half with a 31 to 0 lead. (12 words)
Initially this gave each troop (platoon) of Shermans one powerfully armed tank. (12 words)
The careers of the Shermans — Richard and Robert — were inextricably linked with Walt Disney. (14 words)
The Shermans got fired up as they got the ball back and quickly made it into the Knights side of the field before Unioto running back Cody Braden took the ball on the 39-yard line and punched it in on the second play of the drive. (47 words)
Sherman hit him up for a donation to the Sherman Campus, a recreational and cultural centre in North York made possible by the Shermans’ $50-million gift to the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) of Toronto. (35 words)
Realizing the gravity of the situation, eight M4 Shermans of Company A, 707th Tank Destroyer Battalion attempted to cross the Kall Valley, but only three actually made it across to support the beleaguered 112th. (34 words)
Example sentences (15)
By war's end - through the production of more Fireflies and the replacement of Shermans by British tanks - about 50% of Shermans in British service were Fireflies.
The careers of the Shermans — Richard and Robert — were inextricably linked with Walt Disney.
The Shermans got fired up as they got the ball back and quickly made it into the Knights side of the field before Unioto running back Cody Braden took the ball on the 39-yard line and punched it in on the second play of the drive.
The Shermans went into the half with a 31 to 0 lead.
Pershing tanks had to be literally rolled off display stands and M4 Shermans recovered from World War II battlefields to fight in Korea.
Police have also said the estate of the Shermans — money and property left when they died — is somehow in their homicide investigation.
Shermans with hydraulic dozer blades also proved useful for burying fortified caverns, clearing roads and even pushing knocked-out tanks out of the way.
The Shermans were killed on Dec. 13 and found on Dec. 15. That week was when the Toronto police were closing in on the Bruce McArthur serial murder investigation.
Sherman hit him up for a donation to the Sherman Campus, a recreational and cultural centre in North York made possible by the Shermans’ $50-million gift to the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) of Toronto.
The detective would not comment when asked if investigators believe the Shermans were killed in that location, or whether their bodies had been placed there.
The police announcement on Friday gave the Shermans’ family and friends a sense of vindication.
By 1944, a number of the Shermans in British use were being converted to Sherman Fireflies by adding the QF 17 pounder gun.
Initially this gave each troop (platoon) of Shermans one powerfully armed tank.
Realizing the gravity of the situation, eight M4 Shermans of Company A, 707th Tank Destroyer Battalion attempted to cross the Kall Valley, but only three actually made it across to support the beleaguered 112th.
The Shermans were difficult to disable, such that defenders were often compelled to assault them in the open, where they would fall victim to the superior numbers of Marines.
Common combinations with shermans
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the shermans 10×
- of shermans 3×
- shermans were 3×
- shermans in 2×