Spinney is an English word with synonyms like brush or brushwood. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Spinney in a sentence
Spinney meaning
A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds.
Using Spinney
- The main meaning on this page is: A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds.
- Useful related words include: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse.
- In the example corpus, spinney often appears in combinations such as: the spinney, caroll spinney, spinney mountain.
Context around Spinney
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 3 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Spinney
- In this selection, "spinney" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 19.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, caroll, debi, established, mountain, wants and medical stand out and add context to how "spinney" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as spinney looked to and at capacity spinney mountain covers. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "spinney" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with spinney
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
At capacity Spinney Mountain covers convert. (6 words)
The Spinney Medical Centre - Face-to-face: 1,388. (9 words)
Caroll Spinney, who portrayed Big Bird for decades, died on Sunday. (11 words)
There is also a useful range of outbuildings, including an agricultural barn, open-fronted double car port, fuel store and hobby room plus a newly established spinney and grass paddock which extends to approximately 3.4 acres. (37 words)
Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who brought boyish vulnerability to Big Bird, the towering yellow-plumed character, during 50 years on the groundbreaking children's television show "Sesame Street" an. (29 words)
Beardshear developed new agricultural programs and was instrumental in hiring premier faculty members such Anson Marston, Louis B. Spinney, J.B. Weems, Perry G. Holden, and Maria Roberts. (28 words)
Example sentences (14)
His wife, Debi Spinney, wants the world to know what a great artist he was.
The Spinney Medical Centre - Face-to-face: 1,388.
As Spinney looked to expand their portfolio of family-run motorhome, campervan and caravan dealerships in the UK, the timing could not have been better.
There is also a useful range of outbuildings, including an agricultural barn, open-fronted double car port, fuel store and hobby room plus a newly established spinney and grass paddock which extends to approximately 3.4 acres.
The Spinney is an award-winning care home that offers residential, dementia and end of life care.
Spinney Wood was guarded by sentries, and rumour soon spread that a scary "Leaf Man" was protecting the woods and stopping people entering.
Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who brought boyish vulnerability to Big Bird, the towering yellow-plumed character, during 50 years on the groundbreaking children's television show "Sesame Street" an.
Caroll Spinney, who portrayed Big Bird for decades, died on Sunday.
Trevor Spinney, president of CMP, will stay on to run the operation.
Elizabeth Spinney with the Vt. Agency of Natural Resources said the department works with communities on management strategies for dealing with all invasive plants.
Spinney, remarkably, has been there from the beginning, bringing life to Big Bird and Oscar for the past five decades.
At capacity Spinney Mountain covers convert.
Beardshear developed new agricultural programs and was instrumental in hiring premier faculty members such Anson Marston, Louis B. Spinney, J.B. Weems, Perry G. Holden, and Maria Roberts.
Two miles below Spinney Mountain Reservoir, the river enters Eleven Mile Reservoir, with a capacity of convert.
Common combinations with spinney
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: