Explore Tennessee through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like river. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Tennessee in a sentence
Tennessee meaning
- A state of the United States.
- A river in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky, United States, that flows from eastern Tennessee into the Ohio River.
- A village in McDonough County, Illinois.
Synonyms of Tennessee
Using Tennessee
- The main meaning on this page is: A state of the United States. | A river in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky, United States, that flows from eastern Tennessee into the Ohio River. | A village in McDonough County, Illinois.
- Useful related words include: volunteer state, tn, american state, tennessee river.
- In the example corpus, tennessee often appears in combinations such as: the tennessee, in tennessee, of tennessee.
Context around Tennessee
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 12 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tennessee
- In this selection, "tennessee" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, east, middle, allows, department, office and highway stand out and add context to how "tennessee" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and west tennessee, began in tennessee in 2016, middle tennessee, memphis tennessee and nashville tennessee. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tennessee" sits close to words such as abc, adventure and citing, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tennessee
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Wheeler Dam is one of the hydroelectric dams on the Tennessee River operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. (18 words)
Hikers can explore a fine piece of Tennessee back country at Frozen Head State Park in East Tennessee, near the town of Wartburg. (23 words)
The following weekend, the Govs head to the Middle Tennessee Invitational, September 6th-7th, to face Southeast Missouri, Lehigh, and host Middle Tennessee. (23 words)
Brown, a sixth-year player out of Ole Miss, had just under 3,000 receiving yards in his first two years in Philly after coming over from the Tennessee Titans in a trade that I’m sure the Tennessee Titans would love to have back. (45 words)
A sign marks a table not to be used at Puckett’s Grocery & Restaurant in Franklin, Tennessee on April 27, 2020, the first day Tennessee restaurants were allowed to reopen with reduced seating and social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. (40 words)
Last year, the agency narrowly survived an effort by Gov. Bill Lee to disband it after a prior report on the welfare of Tennessee’s children highlighted alarming problems within the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
The event is being made possible through a partnership between the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the Tennessee Office of Reentry, and the American Job Center of Tennessee.
Tennessee Reconnect is a last-dollar scholarship program that allows Tennessee adults who qualify to attend a state community college or Tennessee College of Applied Technology tuition free.
Upon receiving the forwarded email from News 2, Tennessee Office of Homeland Security Supervisory Agent Brice Allen immediately forwarded the email to the Tennessee Fusion Center, who later contacted the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP).
Hikers can explore a fine piece of Tennessee back country at Frozen Head State Park in East Tennessee, near the town of Wartburg.
I’m thinking of my friends in Tennessee who stopped a huge effort by the governor in Tennessee to privatize all facilities jobs and contract those jobs out to a firm in Chicago.
Kay Wilder, age 78, of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee went home to be with her Lord and Savior on October 18, 2023 at the Parkwest Medical Center in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Since the program began in Tennessee in 2016, volunteers and staff with the Tennessee River chapter have installed 2,249 smoke alarms in Montgomery County.
The order requires responsible parties to ensure that all criminal history and court mental health information is entered into the Tennessee Instant Check System or provided to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation within 72 hours.
As summer turned to fall in 1861, Tennessee Gov. Isham Harris grew tired of gently persuading Union loyalists in East Tennessee to drop their resistance to the Confederacy.
At least 100 people were missing in Tennessee, Patrick C. Sheehan, the director of Tennessee’s emergency management agency, said at a Monday news conference.
Brown, a sixth-year player out of Ole Miss, had just under 3,000 receiving yards in his first two years in Philly after coming over from the Tennessee Titans in a trade that I’m sure the Tennessee Titans would love to have back.
Flooding turned a bus trip from Johnson City, Tennessee, into a 16-hour ordeal for the East Tennessee State University football Buccaneers on their way to play the Citadel.
He said that when he thinks of Tennessee, Georgia or Alabama folk music, he envisions more of a bluegrass feel and said that from Tennessee is a great example.
In April 2015, Nelly was arrested and faced felony drug charges in Tennessee after a bus he was travelling in was pulled over east of Nashville by the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
Last year, the agency narrowly survived an effort by Gov. Bill Lee to disband it after a prior report on the welfare of Tennessee’s children highlighted alarming problems within the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services.
The following weekend, the Govs head to the Middle Tennessee Invitational, September 6th-7th, to face Southeast Missouri, Lehigh, and host Middle Tennessee.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has established a hotline to coordinate reports of missing persons in the areas affected by the recent flooding in Northeast Tennessee.
Wheeler Dam is one of the hydroelectric dams on the Tennessee River operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
A sign marks a table not to be used at Puckett’s Grocery & Restaurant in Franklin, Tennessee on April 27, 2020, the first day Tennessee restaurants were allowed to reopen with reduced seating and social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is continuing its primary care enhancement efforts by forming a joint venture with Sanitas, a Keralty company, to open eight primary care medical centers in Middle and West Tennessee.
Phrases with tennessee
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with tennessee
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the tennessee 58×
- in tennessee 28×
- of tennessee 21×
- tennessee and 19×
- middle tennessee 12×
- tennessee state 9×
- memphis tennessee 8×
- and tennessee 8×
- tennessee titans 8×
- nashville tennessee 8×