Explore Stromness through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Stromness in a sentence
Stromness meaning
A town and seaport in Orkney, Scotland
Using Stromness
- The main meaning on this page is: A town and seaport in Orkney, Scotland
- In the example corpus, stromness often appears in combinations such as: stromness lifeboat, in stromness, to stromness.
Context around Stromness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 4 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stromness
- In this selection, "stromness" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bring, lifeboat, now and hub stand out and add context to how "stromness" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include stromness lifeboat was and along with stromness lifeboat. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stromness" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stromness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A helicopter flying over Stromness yesterday. (6 words)
Stromness Harbour in Orkney – anyone for a dip? (8 words)
STROMNESS Lifeboat was called out while on exercise last night. (10 words)
The Stromness Museum will be delving the depth of Scapa Flow’s history this month with a weekend-long community conference about the historical navel base, as well as a call for folks to inform them of items salvaged from its wrecks. (42 words)
Post will be delivered by ground transportation from Kirkwall to a Stromness hub and transported by drone to Royal Mail sites on Graemsay and the North of Hoy, from where postal workers will carry out their usual island delivery routes. (40 words)
The streets of Kirkwall and Stromness will be exhibiting their usual festive glow this winter, with plans in place to erect the usual Christmas trees in the centre of both towns. (31 words)
Stromness Harbour in Orkney – anyone for a dip? (8 words)
Example sentences (16)
Coastguard Rescue teams from Stromness and Kirkwall were sent to the scene, along with Stromness Lifeboat.
An Orkney driver has been left bemused after the RAC assigned a patrol from Devon to fix her vehicle - 750 miles away in Stromness.
A rare opportunity to acquire all of the business of the Ferry Inn and Royal Hotel in Stromness now presents as owners Karen and Gareth Crichton seek a retirement sale.
Ferry links between Aberdeen, Orkney and Shetland were also cancelled, as well as Pentland Firth crossings from Scrabster to Stromness.
Post will be delivered by ground transportation from Kirkwall to a Stromness hub and transported by drone to Royal Mail sites on Graemsay and the North of Hoy, from where postal workers will carry out their usual island delivery routes.
Stromness Harbour in Orkney – anyone for a dip?
A helicopter flying over Stromness yesterday.
Educated at Stromness Academy, Tim was later awarded a PhD in physics after five years of research and study at the University of Richmond, Virginia in the United States.
STROMNESS Lifeboat was called out while on exercise last night.
The streets of Kirkwall and Stromness will be exhibiting their usual festive glow this winter, with plans in place to erect the usual Christmas trees in the centre of both towns.
They are still remembered in Stromness for developing a bigger programme of events and bringing in big attractions, such as tightrope walkers, motorcycle display teams and the Globe of Death.
A stop at Login’s Well helps to further bring Stromness’s rich history to life.
Stromness lifeboat was paged to assist and transferred the patient to short and into the care of the Scottish Ambulance Service before they were transferred on to the Balfour Hospital.
The Stromness Museum will be delving the depth of Scapa Flow’s history this month with a weekend-long community conference about the historical navel base, as well as a call for folks to inform them of items salvaged from its wrecks.
Hay dedicated his final piece, “Farewell to Stromness,” to Cheetham.
Stromness residents are to come together once again for their annual Christmas Day meal.
Common combinations with stromness
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- stromness lifeboat 3×
- in stromness 3×
- to stromness 3×