Surabaya is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Surabaya in a sentence
Surabaya meaning
The capital and largest city of East Java, Indonesia.
Using Surabaya
- The main meaning on this page is: The capital and largest city of East Java, Indonesia.
- In the example corpus, surabaya often appears in combinations such as: in surabaya, the surabaya, surabaya police.
Context around Surabaya
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Surabaya
- In this selection, "surabaya" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bordering, basarnas, jakarta, police, east and rescue stand out and add context to how "surabaya" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include alliance against surabaya in 1613 and arrived from surabaya the children. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "surabaya" sits close to words such as abdulrasheed, abhinav and aboriginals, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with surabaya
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Basarnas Surabaya rescue agency workers transport the body of Australian surfer Gunther Kitzler back to town. (16 words)
The latest attack on the three churches in Surabaya was also particularly shocking in its use of minors. (18 words)
An example is the exclusive run by Dita Oeprianto, the mastermind of the Surabaya church bombings in May 2018. (19 words)
Seven weeks later, another Adam Air 737 flew an erratic approach to the Surabaya airport among thunderstorms and made a landing so hard that its fuselage cracked and was badly bent, leaving the aft section drooping toward the pavement. (39 words)
The families behind a wave of suicide bombings in the Indonesian city of Surabaya were all members of the same religious study group and radicalised their children through home schooling,investigators in East Java have said. (36 words)
At her Taste of Surabaya stall, she begins her oseng tempeh by stir-frying the dense cake with garlic, ginger, makrut lime leaves and lemongrass, then adds a glaze of molasses-like sweet soy sauce. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Mangera, the Surabaya police spokesman, said police responded about 9 p.m. to an explosion in a residential building in Sidoarjo, a district bordering Surabaya.
Basarnas Surabaya rescue agency workers transport the body of Australian surfer Gunther Kitzler back to town.
An example is the exclusive run by Dita Oeprianto, the mastermind of the Surabaya church bombings in May 2018.
At her Taste of Surabaya stall, she begins her oseng tempeh by stir-frying the dense cake with garlic, ginger, makrut lime leaves and lemongrass, then adds a glaze of molasses-like sweet soy sauce.
Every big project in Jakarta, Surabaya or Bandung begins like that: endless promises of “city walks”, of malls overflowing with green areas.
Dedi said investigators were trying to determine if the attacker was part of the Islamic State-inspired Jemaah Anshorut Daulah (JAD) group, which claimed responsibility for the May 2018 suicide bombings in Surabaya.
Police Brigadier General Dedi Prasetyo, a national police spokesman, told us that Medan in northern Sumatra, Surabaya in eastern Java and Pontianak in western Kalimantan are the most significant transit locations for pangolins.
Seven weeks later, another Adam Air 737 flew an erratic approach to the Surabaya airport among thunderstorms and made a landing so hard that its fuselage cracked and was badly bent, leaving the aft section drooping toward the pavement.
When they first arrived from Surabaya, the children shrank from music and refrained from drawing images of living things because they believed it conflicted with Islam, social workers said.
A suicide bombing occurred at 8.50 a.m. on Monday at the entrance of the Surabaya Police headquarters in Jalan Sikatan.
In addition, the South Jakarta District Court recently banned Jamaah Ansharut Daulah over its involvement in high-profile terrorist attacks in Indonesia, including the attacks in Surabaya.
Police believe a husband, wife and their four children carried out the suicide attacks on three churches in Surabaya that left seven people dead, Indonesia’s top cop said Sunday.
The Catholic hospital is working with St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Hospital in Surabaya, East Java province, she added.
The crash is the worst airline disaster in Indonesia since an AirAsia flight from Surabaya to Singapore plunged into the sea in December 2014, killing all 162 on board.
The families behind a wave of suicide bombings in the Indonesian city of Surabaya were all members of the same religious study group and radicalised their children through home schooling,investigators in East Java have said.
The first attack struck a Sunday Mass at the Santa Maria Roman Catholic Church in Surabaya, killing four people, including the suspected bomber, police spokesman Frans Barung Mangera told reporters at the scene.
The latest attack on the three churches in Surabaya was also particularly shocking in its use of minors.
Three families, some with small children, carried out a series of suicide bombings in Surabaya, East Java, in May, killing more than 30 people.
Dutch activities at the time were limited to trading from limited coastal settlements, so their interactions with the inland Mataram kingdom were limited, although they did form an alliance against Surabaya in 1613.
In Jakarta there are also markets that sell specific collectable items, such as antique goods in Surabaya Street and gemstones in Rawabening Market.
Common combinations with surabaya
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in surabaya 9×
- the surabaya 4×
- surabaya police 2×
- of surabaya 2×
- surabaya in 2×
- from surabaya 2×
- surabaya east 2×