Tooting is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tooting meaning
A suburban area in the borough of Wandsworth and borough of Merton, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2771).
Using Tooting
- The main meaning on this page is: A suburban area in the borough of Wandsworth and borough of Merton, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2771).
- In the example corpus, tooting often appears in combinations such as: in tooting, of tooting, tooting south.
Context around Tooting
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tooting
- In this selection, "tooting" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, horns, balham, south, putney and showcases stand out and add context to how "tooting" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include car horns tooting in support and constituents in tooting london are. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tooting" sits close to words such as ablation, abure and abvp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tooting
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It’s not about tooting my own horn. (8 words)
Striking junior doctor outside St George’s Hospital in Tooting. (10 words)
The group has experience managing markets across London, from Wimbledon to Tooting. (12 words)
If elected, Ms Allin-Khan said she would continue to do shifts at St George’s Hospital in Tooting when she can – but admits she would be busy with her work as an MP and as a mother-of-two. (40 words)
The manhunt was launched after Ezedi left Newcastle in the "very, very early hours" of Wednesday and travelled south to the capital and was in the Tooting area by around 6.30am, police say. (34 words)
Dr Tayar’s former colleague Abbas Ghaznafar who was a renal transplant surgeon at St George’s University in Tooting described him as a “noble human being” who was a “hard-working, dedicated surgeon”. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Another hit in trade has come from the growing availability of south Asian restaurants and products in suburbs like Southall, Wembley and Tooting.
But lest anyone think she might be tooting her own horn, Coolidge quickly clarifies.
He is more interested in tooting his own horn that during his administration a clutch of celestial mining jobs were added to our economy.
In 2005 he gave up his legal career on becoming the member of parliament for Tooting, where he still lives with his lawyer wife Saadiya and their two daughters.
Marches on February 1 were greeted with bus and car horns tooting in support and people coming out of workplaces and houses and cheering and clapping.
Striking junior doctor outside St George’s Hospital in Tooting.
The 15-year-old boy was treated by paramedics at the scene in before being taken to St George's Hospital, in Tooting, for treatment for non-life-threatening injuries.
The rest of the top 10 includes Dalston, Balham, Tooting, Putney, Walthamstow, Brixton and Finsbury Park.
Part of Wandsworth’s Black History 365 programme, this guided tour of Tooting showcases the vibrant black history of the borough.
People were driving around tooting their horns in cars displaying orange, white and green flags.
The group has experience managing markets across London, from Wimbledon to Tooting.
The manhunt was launched after Ezedi left Newcastle in the "very, very early hours" of Wednesday and travelled south to the capital and was in the Tooting area by around 6.30am, police say.
Ade, originally from Somalia, had kidney failure and died within 11 days of being diagnosed with the virus at St George’s hospital in Tooting, south London, last month.
A group of parents near me has raised money to deliver free fresh meals for nurses and other staff working in critical care at my local hospital, St George’s in Tooting.
Dr Tayar’s former colleague Abbas Ghaznafar who was a renal transplant surgeon at St George’s University in Tooting described him as a “noble human being” who was a “hard-working, dedicated surgeon”.
Francesco Calo has been learning how to fix his broken TV at a repair event in Tooting, south London.
If elected, Ms Allin-Khan said she would continue to do shifts at St George’s Hospital in Tooting when she can – but admits she would be busy with her work as an MP and as a mother-of-two.
It’s not about tooting my own horn.
Many of my constituents in Tooting, London, are struggling, and being part of the shadow cabinet means there’s lots to do.
The duo were travelling on a 222 bus which said it was heading to Tooting, but in real life runs from Uxbridge to Hounslow.
Common combinations with tooting
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in tooting 10×
- of tooting 3×
- tooting south 3×
- tooting bec 3×
- and tooting 2×
- tooting his 2×
- to tooting 2×
- into tooting 2×