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Spanners is an English word. Below you'll find 8 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

Rare word

Spanners in a sentence

Related words

Spanners | Spanner

Spanners meaning

plural of spanner

Using Spanners

  • The main meaning on this page is: plural of spanner
  • In the example corpus, spanners often appears in combinations such as: spanners and.

Context around Spanners

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 7 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

adjustable 1×

Often after:

automatically 1×

Sentence patterns with Spanners

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

book about spanners that i 1× home with spanners and engineering 1× passing me spanners and tools 1× put any spanners in the 1× scissors three spanners and a 1× some adjustable spanners automatically adjust 1× vegetables to spanners 1× with the spanners and the 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a small bag 1× a win for 1× during holidays he 1× it broke down 1× just two blocks 1× some adjustable spanners 1×

Common sentence endings:

and the jack 1× at the scene 1× of the nut 1× on many drugs 1× spanners and tools 1× vegetables to spanners 1×

Words around Spanners

Just before it in the word index:

spanner 51 spanned 343 spann 39 spanky 6 spanks 3 spanking 68

Just after it in the word index:

spanning 782 spano 13 spanos 15 spans 568 spansion 2 spanton 4

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaaaa 11 aaba 11 aafc 11 aaib 11 aalbers 11 aardvarks 11

Corpus analysis for Spanners

  • In this selection, "spanners" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, adjustable and automatically stand out and add context to how "spanners" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include book about spanners that i and home with spanners and engineering. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "spanners" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with spanners

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

He's always next to me passing me spanners and tools. (11 words)

Some adjustable spanners automatically adjust to the size of the nut. (11 words)

During holidays he would come home with spanners and engineering tools trying to fix things here and there. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

Sure, I’d read books about racism, but I’d also read books on workers’ rights, feminism, environmentalism, and also once a book about spanners that I found surprisingly hilarious (I was in hospital and on many drugs). (38 words)

It broke down, and I had to carry out quite a big fix in the car park of the services, three hours in the sun with the spanners and the jack. (31 words)

Just two blocks from the country’s premier Meikles Hotel, what was once a neat and active bus terminus is overrun by hundreds of vendors, selling everything from vegetables to spanners. (31 words)

Question examples

A win for Ncube is a win for Mnangagwa so why would Mnangagwa put any spanners in the works for him? (21 words)

Example sentences (8)

A small bag containing burglary tools, including two screwdrivers, a wheel spanner, scissors, three spanners, and a face mask, was discovered at the scene.

It broke down, and I had to carry out quite a big fix in the car park of the services, three hours in the sun with the spanners and the jack.

He's always next to me passing me spanners and tools.

Sure, I’d read books about racism, but I’d also read books on workers’ rights, feminism, environmentalism, and also once a book about spanners that I found surprisingly hilarious (I was in hospital and on many drugs).

Just two blocks from the country’s premier Meikles Hotel, what was once a neat and active bus terminus is overrun by hundreds of vendors, selling everything from vegetables to spanners.

A win for Ncube is a win for Mnangagwa so why would Mnangagwa put any spanners in the works for him?

During holidays he would come home with spanners and engineering tools trying to fix things here and there.

Some adjustable spanners automatically adjust to the size of the nut.

Common combinations with spanners

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "spanners" in a sentence?
An example: "A small bag containing burglary tools, including two screwdrivers, a wheel spanner, scissors, three spanners, and a face mask, was discovered at the scene." This page contains 8 example sentences with the word "spanners" from authentic English texts.
What does "spanners" mean?
Spanners means: plural of spanner
How many example sentences with "spanners" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 8 example sentences with "spanners", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.