Tents is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tents meaning
plural of tent
Using Tents
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of tent
- In the example corpus, tents often appears in combinations such as: tents and, in tents, and tents.
Context around Tents
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 9 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tents
- In this selection, "tents" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 29.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, dining, fireworks, makeshift, having, snowy and spelled stand out and add context to how "tents" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and extra tents were damaged and and trailer tents could also. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tents" sits close to words such as corrections, dismissal and feud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tents
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This was because the tents, the sound system and extra tents were damaged during the arson attack. (17 words)
According to a staff report, there are now more than 40 tents at Victoria Park in Halifax. (17 words)
Tents main The army has relied heavily on tents to provide the various facilities needed while on deployment. (18 words)
The guests don’t want to be told they aren’t allowed to use the restroom at 2 a.m. Kangals are fond of rules, and if everyone was in their tents when Mom left, then in their tents they shall stay, until her return. (45 words)
Emma Priestland, Friends of the Earth campaigner, said: “There was a time when charities could collect a small amount of left-behind tents and donate them to a good cause, but increasingly tents are flimsily constructed so they become single-use items. (42 words)
After a large fire spread from tents to a shuttered theatre on the city’s Downtown Eastside, Vancouver’s fire chief told reporters she was “incredibly frustrated” that more isn’t being done to prevent daily fires breaking out in the area. (42 words)
Example sentences (20)
No more than nine touring units (caravans, camper vans, tents and trailer tents) could also be located on the application site, subject to the permission.
That includes keeping tents from joining together, with tents having to be spaced out at least 10 feet apart.
The pseudo-controversy over outdoor dining tents for struggling coast eateries drew a big crowd before the Board predictably approved the obvious temporary “solution” of allowing the outdoor dining tents for a year.
The image depicts a camp with rows of tents, snowy peaks, and lighter-colored tents spelled “All eyes on Rafah” against a clear blue sky with cotton-ball clouds.
This was because the tents, the sound system and extra tents were damaged during the arson attack.
Double tent sites – or buddy sites – sleep up to 12 (two occupants in each of the two main safari-style tents and four occupants in each of the two provided pop-up tents).
Rich Melton, councilmember, thanked Powell for the update on fireworks tents and clarifying that there are no members of the governing body associated with fireworks tents.
Some tents will be removed much sooner, by Oct. 23. This includes tents available for reservations for classes near Horn Hall, Frosh Quad and Morgan Hall, as well as the Oakley Center tent.
The guests don’t want to be told they aren’t allowed to use the restroom at 2 a.m. Kangals are fond of rules, and if everyone was in their tents when Mom left, then in their tents they shall stay, until her return.
There are always tents set up along the river at Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park in the summer — but this year, there are a lot more tents than usual.
Makeshift tents in the Olive Grove, a rocky hillside outside Moria where people set up their own tents for shelter.
They were there for a barbecue not camping, they had tents most likely because of the same reason they have tents when they go to the beach.
Emma Priestland, Friends of the Earth campaigner, said: “There was a time when charities could collect a small amount of left-behind tents and donate them to a good cause, but increasingly tents are flimsily constructed so they become single-use items.
Some climbers do not use tents at high altitudes unless the snow conditions do not allow for snow caving, since snow caves are silent and much warmer than tents.
Tents main The army has relied heavily on tents to provide the various facilities needed while on deployment.
Aamina**, a 65-year-old mother of four, lives in one of the camps on the outskirts of Baidoa, where thousands of people live in rows of makeshift tents covered with tarpaulin or whatever materials they can find.
According to a staff report, there are now more than 40 tents at Victoria Park in Halifax.
After a large fire spread from tents to a shuttered theatre on the city’s Downtown Eastside, Vancouver’s fire chief told reporters she was “incredibly frustrated” that more isn’t being done to prevent daily fires breaking out in the area.
After celebrating a friend’s milestone birthday on a safari he’d arranged, after about 10 days in tents with moderate privacy, my husband and I had a final night at the Holiday Inn Johannesburg – Rosebank before heading home.
A group of campaigners also gathered outside the Home Office in Westminster in opposition to Ms Braverman's comments on refugees and tents pitched by homeless people in public spaces.
Common combinations with tents
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- tents and 35×
- in tents 19×
- and tents 13×
- the tents 12×
- tents in 12×
- tents were 10×
- their tents 10×
- of tents 9×
- tents to 9×
- makeshift tents 8×