Get to know Tern better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Tern in a sentence
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Tern meaning
Any of various seabirds of the subfamily Sterninae (of the family Laridae) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail.
Synonyms of Tern
Using Tern
- The main meaning on this page is: Any of various seabirds of the subfamily Sterninae (of the family Laridae) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail.
- Useful related words include: larid.
- In the example corpus, tern often appears in combinations such as: the tern, little tern, caspian tern.
Context around Tern
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tern
- In this selection, "tern" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, little, caspian, adult, hill, recovery and fledglings stand out and add context to how "tern" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a long tern care facility and a royal tern at lake. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tern" sits close to words such as aare, aarti and abl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tern
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Wren it's your tern. (5 words)
Caspian tern chicks with a decoy adult tern. (8 words)
Good Tern to host lecture on healthy cooking Jan. (9 words)
Even as the company faces macroeconomic headwinds in China, its business remains strong, and management remains confident due to its small size and ability to rapidly grow the store count in the country to grow revenues and offset the near-tern weakness. (42 words)
Bird flu killed more than half a tern colony near Port Townsend this year, and 2023 saw the first jump of the disease from seabirds to harbor seals, the first report of marine mammals dying from the disease on the West Coast. (42 words)
At Tern Club, a tropical bar in Knoxville, Tennessee, Herbstura spices up the house Zombie and Jet Pilot (rums, grapefruit and lime, cinnamon syrup, falernum, Herbstura), but owner Jocelyn Morin finds it to be a versatile ingredient at home, too. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Thanks to the efforts of volunteers at the Chesil Little Tern Recovery Project, over 45 surviving Little Tern fledglings were recorded last year compared to only three in 2021.
Caspian tern chicks with a decoy adult tern.
At Tern Club, a tropical bar in Knoxville, Tennessee, Herbstura spices up the house Zombie and Jet Pilot (rums, grapefruit and lime, cinnamon syrup, falernum, Herbstura), but owner Jocelyn Morin finds it to be a versatile ingredient at home, too.
Even as the company faces macroeconomic headwinds in China, its business remains strong, and management remains confident due to its small size and ability to rapidly grow the store count in the country to grow revenues and offset the near-tern weakness.
The other Outer Hebrides target species include the great yellow bumblebee, dunlin, northern colletes mining bee, common pipistrelle bat, Arctic tern, lapwing, and the Irish lady’s tresses orchid.
AA Traffic News is reporting that the A41 is closed due to a crash on the southbound stretch from Bletchley to the A53 (Tern Hill roundabout).
Bird flu killed more than half a tern colony near Port Townsend this year, and 2023 saw the first jump of the disease from seabirds to harbor seals, the first report of marine mammals dying from the disease on the West Coast.
I spotted a small dark tern as I scanned the tidal flats but unfortunately could not find it again to confirm the identification.
The A53 between Hodnet and Tern Hill was closed for around two hours on Saturday as police dealt with what witnesses are reporting as horse and trap racing.
The Environment Agency has issued a host of for areas around the county, including the Severn and Vyrnwy Confluence, the Rea Brook and Cound Brook, the Tern and Perry catchments, the Teme, and the River Salwarpe.
A similar bird to the manu o kū (white tern) seen in urban Honolulu, the blue noddy was given the names hinaokū and manuohina.
Good Tern to host lecture on healthy cooking Jan.
The first two phases focus on preliminary design and risk reduction for the Tern system.
The least tern form colonies on empty beaches, which in populated Broward County is a rare find.
Most now have young chicks, while the pied stilt and black-fronted tern are only just starting to lay eggs.
Paul Sowizral found another late summer and fall specialty, a royal tern, at Lake Tashmoo on Sept. 15. Most likely this bird was carried northward by Hurricane Dorian and is now making its way back southward.
The Derby Road location is currently zoned single family residential and would need to be rezoned to be used for a long-tern care facility.
The new $1.6 million golf clubhouse in Ocean Pines will include a large meeting room as well as space for Tern’s Grille, along with an outdoor deck, pro shop and club-fitting area.
Sharon Bruce, the communications manager for Audubon New York, said some of the birds they wish to protect include the piping plover, least tern and American oystercatcher, all of which nest directly on the sand.
Wren it's your tern.
Common combinations with tern
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: