Situate is an English word with synonyms like locate or position. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Situate meaning
- To place on or into a physical location.
- To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc.
Synonyms of Situate
Using Situate
- The main meaning on this page is: To place on or into a physical location. | To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc.
- Useful related words include: locate, position, pose, place.
- In the example corpus, situate often appears in combinations such as: to situate, situate the, situate her.
Context around Situate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 17 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Situate
- In this selection, "situate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, generally, properly, okpala, viewers, themselves and gotham stand out and add context to how "situate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and to situate the work and books generally situate gotham in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "situate" sits close to words such as aberrant, abloh and absurdities, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with situate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The comic books generally situate Gotham in New Jersey. (9 words)
Next, it is important to situate the texts within a larger context. (12 words)
Now the Yankees’ outfielders, too, carry cards with information on how to best situate themselves. (15 words)
The governor’s charge reads, “To ascertain/identify the owner, developer and/or holder of the certificate of occupancy over and in respect of all that piece or parcel of land situate and lying at 119 Woji Road, (Plot 80), GRA Phase 2, Port Harcourt. (45 words)
I went to Nariman House with my father to understand the power of community to rebuild, experience resilience, hope and to situate the work that many of my colleagues do every day to fight terrorism. (35 words)
Titles such as “Waiting for Hurricane Lorenzo – Ballycastle”, “Dark Day at Doonfeeny”, or “Soft Weather – West Coast”, connect and situate her works and underscore the emotional response to place inherent in her paintings. (33 words)
How do we situate it within a broader context of resurgent nationalism in a country whose history is deeply saturated with transnational affinities, diasporic circulations, and cultural hybridities? (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
Next, it is important to situate the texts within a larger context.
Off-Broadway in particular lends itself to outsider art, yet Apatow appears unwilling to situate her performance outside conventional norms.
The comic books generally situate Gotham in New Jersey.
For Oloja, nothing can properly situate the efforts of the June 12 heroes without a proper monument dedicated to the famous and unsung heroes of the process.
Leading in the argument, Egu presented that Amala and Alatia are two communities in Ngor Okpala situate at the border of Imo and Rivers State through Etche.
A mother and her two daughters were inside, so he helped situate the girls into a rescue vehicle.
How do we situate it within a broader context of resurgent nationalism in a country whose history is deeply saturated with transnational affinities, diasporic circulations, and cultural hybridities?
The development of the victims is also important, and helps to situate viewers in their supernatural plights.
Titles such as “Waiting for Hurricane Lorenzo – Ballycastle”, “Dark Day at Doonfeeny”, or “Soft Weather – West Coast”, connect and situate her works and underscore the emotional response to place inherent in her paintings.
Ultimately, the goal of this initiative is to help students situate themselves within the conservatory; build their mental, emotional and physical well-being; create their individual artistic paths; and support collaboration across disciplines.
We slid open the narrow, horizontal windows that served as our vantage onto the still-dark woods, and I tried to situate myself in the chair to Rinella’s right.
I am fascinated, however, by how finds a way to perfectly situate viewers in Marie’s point of view.
Martin Crowe had talked about how in T20, he would situate himself around or just outside off stump.
Now the Yankees’ outfielders, too, carry cards with information on how to best situate themselves.
A spacious-sounding system will help situate John Darnielle in the room he's singing in.
I went to Nariman House with my father to understand the power of community to rebuild, experience resilience, hope and to situate the work that many of my colleagues do every day to fight terrorism.
The governor’s charge reads, “To ascertain/identify the owner, developer and/or holder of the certificate of occupancy over and in respect of all that piece or parcel of land situate and lying at 119 Woji Road, (Plot 80), GRA Phase 2, Port Harcourt.
African science fiction often uses this genre norm to situate slavery and the slave trade as an alien abduction.
Clay Smith has argued that this sort of allusiveness serves to situate Gaiman as a strong authorial presence in his own works, often to the exclusion of his collaborators.
It was the author's intention to situate Poictesme roughly in the south of France.
Common combinations with situate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to situate 11×
- situate the 6×
- situate her 2×
- situate it 2×
- situate viewers 2×
- situate themselves 2×