Explore Sulawesi through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like celebes or island. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Sulawesi in a sentence
Sulawesi meaning
An island of Indonesia, the world's eleventh-largest island.
Using Sulawesi
- The main meaning on this page is: An island of Indonesia, the world's eleventh-largest island.
- Useful related words include: celebes, island.
- In the example corpus, sulawesi often appears in combinations such as: central sulawesi, south sulawesi, of sulawesi.
Context around Sulawesi
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sulawesi
- In this selection, "sulawesi" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, south, central, north, island, south and leaving stand out and add context to how "sulawesi" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and central sulawesi and east of sulawesi island. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sulawesi" sits close to words such as accrington, agonizing and allocates, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sulawesi
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It also was felt in North Sulawesi, South Sulawesi and Central Sulawesi. (12 words)
West Sulawesi is a new province, created in 2004 from part of South Sulawesi. (14 words)
Rescuers carry people affected by a flood in Wajo, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, on May 3, 2024. (16 words)
The study finds that 1 kg of nickel mined from saprolite and limonite ore in Sulawesi removes forests containing carbon stock equivalent to 7.0 and 9.4 kg of COe, and 1 kg of cobalt mined in Katanga removes 3.6 kg of COe. (45 words)
In June, an East Java policewoman set her husband on fire because of his gambling, while last year a 48-year-old man in Central Sulawesi robbed and killed his mother to fund his habit, according to local media reports. (40 words)
The contest will see one brave croc hunter land an unspecified amount of cash, but it will mean coming face to face with the 13-foot (4-metre) reptile Palu, the capital of Central Sulawesi. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
It also was felt in North Sulawesi, South Sulawesi and Central Sulawesi.
Minor islands The Selayar Islands make up a peninsula stretching southwards from Southwest Sulawesi into the Flores Sea are administratively part of Sulawesi.
There are also substantial numbers of Christians around Lake Poso in Central Sulawesi, among the Pamona speaking peoples of Central Sulawesi, and near Mamasa.
West Sulawesi is a new province, created in 2004 from part of South Sulawesi.
In addition to serving meat from dogs and cats, the infamous Sulawesi Island Tomohon Extreme Market also serves meat of bats, rats, snakes, and monkeys.
In October, for example, heavy rain led to floods and landslides in Indonesian islands of Java and Sulawesi, leaving four people dead and impacting over 30,000 people.
Located beside a crystal-blue lake in the lush jungle of Sorowako, South Sulawesi, Vale Indonesia — a subsidiary of Vale international — runs its smelters entirely from hydroelectricity.
Still, they took hope from the fact that Ford Motor recently entered a to construct a nickel processing plant in Sulawesi.
The study finds that 1 kg of nickel mined from saprolite and limonite ore in Sulawesi removes forests containing carbon stock equivalent to 7.0 and 9.4 kg of COe, and 1 kg of cobalt mined in Katanga removes 3.6 kg of COe.
Apriyani was also promised five cows, a plot of land, and a house by the district head of her hometown in Southeast Sulawesi, according to state news agency Antara.
In June, an East Java policewoman set her husband on fire because of his gambling, while last year a 48-year-old man in Central Sulawesi robbed and killed his mother to fund his habit, according to local media reports.
Rescuers carry people affected by a flood in Wajo, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, on May 3, 2024.
Residents around Indonesia’s North Toraja regency on Sulawesi island have been celebrating a weeks-long ceremony called “the Manene”.
The oldest known stencil art previous to this is located in the Leang Timpuseng Cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
The contest will see one brave croc hunter land an unspecified amount of cash, but it will mean coming face to face with the 13-foot (4-metre) reptile Palu, the capital of Central Sulawesi.
In December 2017, Hamrullah, an archaeologist on an Indonesian government survey, was exploring a cave system in Sulawesi, a large island in central Indonesia.
Indonesia’s geophysics agency said it has ended a tsunami warning that was triggered by a strong earthquake Friday east of Sulawesi island.
Jusuf Kalla’s elusive support for Joko Widodo (Jokowi) along with strong backing from Islamist groups for Prabowo Subianto does not bode well for Jokowi’s chances in South Sulawesi.
More than 300 people are estimated to have drowned in 2009 when a ferry sank between Sulawesi and Borneo.
Sulawesi’s bentors – two-wheeled carriages front-mounted on motorbikes – are one of the Southeast Asia’s more hair-raising methods of transport.
Common combinations with sulawesi
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- central sulawesi 13×
- south sulawesi 10×
- of sulawesi 9×
- sulawesi island 9×
- in sulawesi 8×
- sulawesi indonesia 7×
- north sulawesi 4×
- sulawesi and 3×
- on sulawesi 3×
- to sulawesi 3×