Tress is an English word with synonyms like braid or plait. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tress meaning
- A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
- A long lock of hair.
- A knot or festoon, as of flowers.
Using Tress
- The main meaning on this page is: A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet. | A long lock of hair. | A knot or festoon, as of flowers.
- Useful related words include: braid, plait, twist, hairdo.
- In the example corpus, tress often appears in combinations such as: the tress, tress macneille.
Context around Tress
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tress
- In this selection, "tress" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, oliver, down, native, macneille and managed stand out and add context to how "tress" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include along with tress macneille and and mary tress of baltimore. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tress" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tress
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In 1999 Tress MacNeille took over as Daisy's full-time voice. (12 words)
Also in Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999) along with Tress MacNeille. (13 words)
In 1960, John and Mary Tress of Baltimore MD had what the nurse mistakenly identified as twins. (17 words)
After planting the saplings, all these agencies would also nurture them for two years after which an independent agency would conduct a “survival audit” of the tress to examine their survival rate and take further remedial actions. (37 words)
Tress could go on between 50 and 72 per cent of the land area in each ward, though that estimate includes all open spaces such as front and back yards, and sports fields. (33 words)
I can disclose that she and her estranged husband, Oliver Tress, managed to sell their marital home to fiery TV chef and his wife, Tana, for a staggering £7.5 million. (31 words)
Example sentences (10)
I can disclose that she and her estranged husband, Oliver Tress, managed to sell their marital home to fiery TV chef and his wife, Tana, for a staggering £7.5 million.
Tress could go on between 50 and 72 per cent of the land area in each ward, though that estimate includes all open spaces such as front and back yards, and sports fields.
Alien vegetation like rooikrans and black wattle drink lots of valuable ground water, so rather burn wood from those tress.
But last year, the deadly climate change came and a sudden unexpected thunderstorm wiped the blossoms off the tress.
He also said that it is incorrect to say that the temple was built after cutting down tress as it was centuries old.
After planting the saplings, all these agencies would also nurture them for two years after which an independent agency would conduct a “survival audit” of the tress to examine their survival rate and take further remedial actions.
He said based on scientific studies, sufficiently tall and dense trees like those of “pilkhan, goolar, mango, mahua” and other native tress have been chosen for this scheme.
Also in Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999) along with Tress MacNeille.
In 1960, John and Mary Tress of Baltimore MD had what the nurse mistakenly identified as twins.
In 1999 Tress MacNeille took over as Daisy's full-time voice.
Common combinations with tress
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: