Wondering how to use Sontaran in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. .
Using Sontaran
- In the example corpus, sontaran often appears in combinations such as: the sontaran, sontaran stratagem, sontaran experiment.
Context around Sontaran
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sontaran
- In this selection, "sontaran" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, last, tenth, small, experiment, stratagem and battle stand out and add context to how "sontaran" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include the tenth sontaran battle fleet and another sontaran named styre. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sontaran" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sontaran
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
These rifles are the Sontaran gun of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet. (12 words)
The Sarah Jane Adventures story The Last Sontaran showed further technological advancements of the modern Sontarans. (16 words)
Another Sontaran named Styre appears in The Sontaran Experiment (1975), experimenting on captured astronauts on a far future Earth. (19 words)
In The Sontaran Experiment, Field Major Styre instead used a small red laser pistol which only killed (although it did not kill the Doctor, because of a small metal plate the Doctor had been keeping in his inside pocket). (39 words)
This weapon fires a disabling beam that can temporarily render a person useless and emits an energy pulse that can repair systems like the teleport, and has appeared in every Sontaran story except The Sontaran Experiment. (36 words)
Even something as simple as a squash ball aimed at that point (" The Sontaran Stratagem ") or contact by the heel of a shoe (" The Last Sontaran ") is capable of incapacitating them temporarily. (32 words)
Example sentences (14)
Reproduction and gender identity A Sontaran known as Styre from The Sontaran Experiment ; due to being a clone, it is commented that he appears similar to Linx, another Sontaran.
Another Sontaran named Styre appears in The Sontaran Experiment (1975), experimenting on captured astronauts on a far future Earth.
Even something as simple as a squash ball aimed at that point (" The Sontaran Stratagem ") or contact by the heel of a shoe (" The Last Sontaran ") is capable of incapacitating them temporarily.
These rifles are the Sontaran gun of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet.
The Sontaran Stratagem also saw the introduction of a large mothership from which the small Sontaran capsules could be seen to originate.
This weapon fires a disabling beam that can temporarily render a person useless and emits an energy pulse that can repair systems like the teleport, and has appeared in every Sontaran story except The Sontaran Experiment.
Vastra, a Silurian detective, and her wife, Flint, were part of the Paternoster Gang, along with the Sontaran Strax (Dan Starkey).
In The Sontaran Experiment, Field Major Styre instead used a small red laser pistol which only killed (although it did not kill the Doctor, because of a small metal plate the Doctor had been keeping in his inside pocket).
It would not be until The Sontaran Stratagem that General Staal would show that the baton can fire an orange beam that could stun the target.
Series 6 episode " A Good Man Goes to War " (2011) introduces Strax (Starkey), a Sontaran nurse who has been assigned this role as a means of making penance.
Technology The Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet in the new series consists of a Command Ship and a number of capsules that can be moved into position when Battle Status is enjoined.
The Enterprise is attacked by a Sontaran fleet (which is unrecognizable to Captain Kirk and crew), prompting the Doctor to urgently warn the crew to flee the area.
The Sarah Jane Adventures story The Last Sontaran showed further technological advancements of the modern Sontarans.
When Luke Rattigan asks how they can tell each other apart in "The Sontaran Stratagem", General Staal remarks that they say the same of humans.
Common combinations with sontaran
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: