Wondering how to use Tigris in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as river.
Tigris in a sentence
Tigris meaning
A river in West Asia flowing 1,150 miles east-southeast from the Armenian Highland in Turkey through Iraq. It forms the eastern edge of classical Mesopotamia. It unites with the Euphrates River to form the Shatt al-Arab before flowing into the Persian Gulf.
Synonyms of Tigris
Using Tigris
- The main meaning on this page is: A river in West Asia flowing 1,150 miles east-southeast from the Armenian Highland in Turkey through Iraq. It forms the eastern edge of classical Mesopotamia. It unites with the Euphrates River to form the Shatt al-Arab before flowing into the Persian Gulf.
- Useful related words include: tigris river, river.
- In the example corpus, tigris often appears in combinations such as: the tigris, tigris and, tigris river.
Context around Tigris
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tigris
- In this selection, "tigris" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, river, aka, panthera, river, went and nightwing stand out and add context to how "tigris" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include across the tigris by night and across the tigris river after. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tigris" sits close to words such as absentees, accruing and aerosmith, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tigris
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
All five of the city's bridges spanning the Tigris River have been damaged. (14 words)
Cassius' army returned to the field in 166, crossing over the Tigris into Media. (14 words)
Constantius had already spent part of early 361 unsuccessfully attempting to re-take the fortress of Ad Tigris. (18 words)
After dispatching Tiamat with the "arrows of his winds" down her throat and constructing the heavens with the arch of her ribs, Enlil places her tail in the sky as the Milky Way, and her crying eyes become the source of the Tigris and Euphrates. (45 words)
Schafer's Tigris will be an important part of "The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes" movie, as viewers will meet her prior to her surgical enhancements and tattoos, and her relationship with Coriolanus will be front and center. (37 words)
Ctesiphon By mid-May, the army had reached the vicinity of the heavily fortified Persian capital, Ctesiphon, where Julian partially unloaded some of the fleet and had his troops ferried across the Tigris by night. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
It was then shocking that The Ballad of Songbird and Snakes revealed that Tigris was the older cousin of President Snow.
Schafer's Tigris will be an important part of "The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes" movie, as viewers will meet her prior to her surgical enhancements and tattoos, and her relationship with Coriolanus will be front and center.
Tigris went on to suffer under the tutelage of the popular fashion designer, Fabricia Whatnot, for years before she became one of the most sought-after stylists in the Capitol.
Turkey’s neighbor has been urging Ankara to secure Iraq’s water share from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which originate from Turkey.
A striking fish called the leopard barbel (Luciobarbus subquincunciatus) was once common in the Tigris and Euphrates river systems.
In recent years, a significant and unprecedented decline in water flow has been clear in both the Euphrates and the Tigris, and tributary rivers and lakes have dried up in several governorates.
The attack took place earlier in the day than usual, with AFP reporters hearing the booms on the western bank of the river Tigris at precisely 7:30 pm (1630 GMT).
The Iranian-backed protesters have moved their camp across the Tigris river after the attacks that left parts of the heavily-fortified embassy compound scorched and in ruins.
The footage, released last night, shows anti-Islamic State coalition warplanes launching the laser-guided barrage over the Tigris River.
All five of the city's bridges spanning the Tigris River have been damaged.
Baha’u’llah declared his mission to a small group of followers on an island on the Tigris River in Baghdad where he pitched his tent for 12 days.
The metahuman trafficking plot brings Artemis aka Tigris, Nightwing, and Superboy back together to investigate what is going on in Markovia.
After dispatching Tiamat with the "arrows of his winds" down her throat and constructing the heavens with the arch of her ribs, Enlil places her tail in the sky as the Milky Way, and her crying eyes become the source of the Tigris and Euphrates.
Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 18; Potter, 293. Galerius continued moving down the Tigris, and took the Persian capital Ctesiphon before returning to Roman territory along the Euphrates.
Beyond predation by other large predators (rarely by wolf packs or Siberian tigers (Panthera tigris altaica)) and brown bears, starvation and accidents claim a few cubs.
Cassius' army returned to the field in 166, crossing over the Tigris into Media.
Chemical weapons were used, and the Iraqis also flooded Iranian trenches with specially constructed pipes delivering water from the Tigris River.
Constantius had already spent part of early 361 unsuccessfully attempting to re-take the fortress of Ad Tigris.
Ctesiphon By mid-May, the army had reached the vicinity of the heavily fortified Persian capital, Ctesiphon, where Julian partially unloaded some of the fleet and had his troops ferried across the Tigris by night.
Damming has also been important for averting floods in Iraq, to which the Tigris has historically been notoriously prone following April melting of snow in the Turkish mountains.
Common combinations with tigris
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: