How do you use Tawau in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Tawau in a sentence
Tawau meaning
The district capital of Tawau district, Sabah, Malaysia.
Using Tawau
- The main meaning on this page is: The district capital of Tawau district, Sabah, Malaysia.
- In the example corpus, tawau often appears in combinations such as: in tawau, to tawau, the tawau.
Context around Tawau
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tawau
- In this selection, "tawau" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cases, kinabalu, sandakan, chinese, agricultural and july stand out and add context to how "tawau" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include commerce and tawau agricultural association and datu from tawau with another. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tawau" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tawau
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Jaifol is also required to report to the Tawau SWD office once in two weeks. (15 words)
The tourists concerned arrived in Kota Kinabalu on Jan 1 and flew to Tawau the same day. (17 words)
Joint maritime coordinating centres were established in Tarakan, Indonesia; in Tawau, Malaysia; and Bongao in the Philippines. (17 words)
In other instances, the district area is much larger than the actual city it represents thereby "inflating" the population by including the rural population living further outside the actual city—such as Tawau and Palangkaraya. (35 words)
TAWAU (July 28): The Works Ministry has approved an allocation of RM130 million for periodic maintenance of pavements and non-pavements for federal roads in Sabah this year. (28 words)
He believed that even fewer still, especially the young, had heard of the Kalabakan incident on Dec 29, 1963, involving a battle in a logging town in Tawau. (28 words)
Example sentences (16)
After the palm oil mill visit, Chan attended a dialogue meeting with about 30 committee members from the Tawau Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Tawau Agricultural Association.
Given a rebound in outbound tourism, she also proposed that a chartered flight be mounted from Shanghai to Tawau in the near future.
TAWAU (July 28): The Works Ministry has approved an allocation of RM130 million for periodic maintenance of pavements and non-pavements for federal roads in Sabah this year.
The Armed Forces would be opening a field hospital in Tawau to provide assistance in treating cases not related to Covid-19.
The tourists concerned arrived in Kota Kinabalu on Jan 1 and flew to Tawau the same day.
With the four new cases, Tawau remains as the district with the highest number of cases in Sabah.
Baharin said, the armoured vehicle was on its way to Lahad Datu from Tawau with another seven vehicles belong to carry out a military road running exercise.
He believed that even fewer still, especially the young, had heard of the Kalabakan incident on Dec 29, 1963, involving a battle in a logging town in Tawau.
He said that among the districts where the by-laws have been implemented are Kota Kinabalu, Tawau and Sandakan.
Jaifol is also required to report to the Tawau SWD office once in two weeks.
Joint maritime coordinating centres were established in Tarakan, Indonesia; in Tawau, Malaysia; and Bongao in the Philippines.
One suggestion would be to build a road from Serudong district in Tawau to Simanggaris, which borders north Kalimantan, he said.
Tawau police chief, ACP Fadil Marsus said, the three suspects were believed to be involved in crime and terrorist activities.
In other instances, the district area is much larger than the actual city it represents thereby "inflating" the population by including the rural population living further outside the actual city—such as Tawau and Palangkaraya.
Other important towns include Sandakan and Tawau in Sabah, Sibu and Bintulu in Sarawak, and Victoria in Labuan.
Sabah has a total of eight ports operating in Sepanggar, Kota Kinabalu, Sandakan, Tawau, Kudat, Kunak and Lahad Datu.
Common combinations with tawau
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in tawau 4×
- to tawau 3×
- the tawau 2×
- and tawau 2×
- tawau in 2×
- tawau to 2×
- tawau and 2×