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Shug in a sentence
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Shug meaning
A Scottish nickname usually applied to people with the first name Hew or Hugh or other spellings of this name.
Using Shug
- The main meaning on this page is: A Scottish nickname usually applied to people with the first name Hew or Hugh or other spellings of this name.
- In the example corpus, shug often appears in combinations such as: shug avery, and shug, shug shug.
Context around Shug
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shug
- In this selection, "shug" 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, love, night, shop, avery, returns and asks stand out and add context to how "shug" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1900s and shug avery a and along with shug and squeak. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shug" sits close to words such as abattoirs, abike and ablative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shug
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Celie pledges to love Shug even if Shug does not love her back. (13 words)
And she's been cast in an adaptation of "The Color Purple," as Shug Avery. (15 words)
When Shug becomes seriously ill, Albert takes her into their home so she can recover. (15 words)
That moment occurs between Celie, a poor Black woman living in the rural South in the early 1900s, and Shug Avery, a free-spirited jazz-blues singer who is also the longtime mistress of Celie’s husband. (37 words)
Miss Celie and Miss Shug Avery become dear friends and decide to move away together, and this finally allows Celie to leave her terrible relationship with Mister which she was forced into by her own father. (36 words)
But she is a survivor who finds strength and solidarity in the company of other women, such as Sofia, who is fiercely independent, and the fabulous singer Shug Avery, played this time by Taraji P Henson. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Celie pledges to love Shug even if Shug does not love her back.
Just after Celie realizes that she is content in her life without Shug, Shug returns, having ended things with Germaine.
One night Shug asks Celie about her sister, and Shug helps Celie recover letters from Nettie that Mister has been hiding from her for decades.
After they co-wrote about 10 potential tunes for the new movie, it was “Shug Avery” — performed by Fantasia and Colman Domingo (Mister) — that made the final cut.
And she's been cast in an adaptation of "The Color Purple," as Shug Avery.
A new ice cream shop, Shug’s, owned and operated by Minden locals Donny and Mandi Hart, will be opening its doors near the end of summer.
He is in discussions with Tiffany Day, the owner of Shug’s at Brooklyn South Square about having a show — or two — there, likely in May.
Miss Celie and Miss Shug Avery become dear friends and decide to move away together, and this finally allows Celie to leave her terrible relationship with Mister which she was forced into by her own father.
That moment occurs between Celie, a poor Black woman living in the rural South in the early 1900s, and Shug Avery, a free-spirited jazz-blues singer who is also the longtime mistress of Celie’s husband.
But she is a survivor who finds strength and solidarity in the company of other women, such as Sofia, who is fiercely independent, and the fabulous singer Shug Avery, played this time by Taraji P Henson.
Shug’s Soda Fountain brought its exceptional retro goodness to the festival, setting up scoop stands throughout the venue.
While Henson is a force of nature herself, particularly in her performance of Push da Button, Margaret AveryтАЩs performance as Shug had that layer of pathos-lined empathy which HensonтАЩs lacks.
She grew up a great beauty in Glasgow, and she has married the wrong man, the Protestant taxi driver, Big Shug.
When Shug becomes seriously ill, Albert takes her into their home so she can recover.
Around this time, Shug falls in love with Germaine, a member of her band, and the news thereof crushes Celie.
Celie begins to lose some of her faith in God, which she confides to Shug, who explains to Celie her own unique religious philosophy.
Celie, having had enough of her husband's abuse, decides to leave Mister along with Shug and Squeak, who is considering a singing career of her own.
Celie, who had been fascinated by photos of Shug she found in Mister's belongings, is thrilled to have her there.
Glamorous Shug Avery, a jazz and blues singer and Mister's long-time mistress, falls ill, and Mister takes her into his house.
In allowing Celie to view these letters, Shug supplies her with even more hope and inspiration, letting Celie see that in the end, everything works out for the best.
Common combinations with shug
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- shug avery 6×
- and shug 3×
- shug shug 2×
- as shug 2×
- of shug 2×