Shreveport is an English word with synonyms like city or metropolis. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Shreveport in a sentence
Shreveport meaning
A city, the parish seat of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Synonyms of Shreveport
Using Shreveport
- The main meaning on this page is: A city, the parish seat of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States.
- Useful related words include: city, metropolis, urban center.
- In the example corpus, shreveport often appears in combinations such as: in shreveport, the shreveport, of shreveport.
Context around Shreveport
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shreveport
- In this selection, "shreveport" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, love, downtown, includes, louisiana, bossier and area stand out and add context to how "shreveport" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2023 in shreveport la after and a shreveport man with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shreveport" sits close to words such as abhishek, ari and athenian, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shreveport
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. (8 words)
Jesse’s plan was to stay in Shreveport. (8 words)
Could Shreveport Water and Sewer Rates Go Up This Year? (10 words)
Pro wrestling has been a big deal in the Shreveport area for a time, so we're going to include the wrestlers who've worked in the Shreveport area, and went on to comic book movie fame. (37 words)
After tonight, the LSU Tigers will then have met all 11 Louisiana schools that currently play football, plus two others —Loyola of New Orleans and Centenary of Shreveport, which long ago gave up the sport. (35 words)
If you've lived in Shreveport/Bossier for any length of time at all, you know how badly we need to replace the Jimmie Davis Bridge over Red River connecting the two cities. (33 words)
Could Shreveport Water and Sewer Rates Go Up This Year? (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
On Thursday (10/19/23) local social media news outlet Love Shreveport-Bossier received a video of a nasty fight breaking out at a McDonald's in Shreveport.
SHREVEPORT, LA - The Shreveport Capital Improvements Committee has been holding meetings to find out the critical infrastructure needs.
Pro wrestling has been a big deal in the Shreveport area for a time, so we're going to include the wrestlers who've worked in the Shreveport area, and went on to comic book movie fame.
SHREVEPORT, LA - Shreveport city pools are open for the summer, and city leaders are doing everything possible to make sure children are safe while swimming.
SHREVEPORT, Louisiana () — Scary moments for a city worker in Shreveport this morning after he fell into a hole and had to be rescued.
I lived in Shreveport in 1974 and saw Paul Warfield play against the Shreveport Steamer.
Both the Wienermobile and the NUTmobile will be together at the Shreveport Convention Center from 7:30 a.m. until 1:00pm for the Annual Heroes Run in Downtown Shreveport.
It appears that the law will be removed from the city in the next couple of weeks by the Shreveport City Council and Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins.
After tonight, the LSU Tigers will then have met all 11 Louisiana schools that currently play football, plus two others —Loyola of New Orleans and Centenary of Shreveport, which long ago gave up the sport.
A Shreveport man with a criminal record, convicted of firearms charges in December 2022, has been sentenced to the maximum prison terms allowed by law.
As The Wall Street Journal : “Johnson, 51 years old, represents Louisiana’s deep-red fourth district, in the state’s northwest that includes Shreveport, where he grew up.
A woman shot and mortally wounded in her home in Shreveport’s Cedar Grove neighborhood early Friday, December 1, 2023, has been named by the Caddo Parish Coroner’s office.
Check out this list of some of the biggest names in pro wrestling who have worked in Shreveport and Bossier City.
Could Shreveport Water and Sewer Rates Go Up This Year?
He’s a corporate dream — an affable ultra-conservative from Shreveport, Louisiana, who consistently backs the plutocratic agenda of Big Business over workers, the poor, consumers and most other Americans.
He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.
If you've lived in Shreveport/Bossier for any length of time at all, you know how badly we need to replace the Jimmie Davis Bridge over Red River connecting the two cities.
Jana Harris Jones, 69, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on Saturday, May 20, 2023 in Shreveport, LA after a year-long battle with breast cancer.
Jesse’s plan was to stay in Shreveport.
LSU Health Shreveport and Grambling State University Sign Memorandum of Understanding.
Common combinations with shreveport
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in shreveport 39×
- the shreveport 25×
- of shreveport 20×
- shreveport la 17×
- shreveport police 17×
- shreveport and 15×
- shreveport louisiana 11×
- shreveport city 5×
- from shreveport 5×
- to shreveport 5×