Get to know Tunguska better with 10+ real example sentences and synonyms like river or angara.
Tunguska in a sentence
Using Tunguska
- Useful related words include: river, stony tunguska, lower tunguska, angara.
- In the example corpus, tunguska often appears in combinations such as: the tunguska, tunguska event, tunguska object.
Context around Tunguska
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tunguska
- In this selection, "tunguska" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seealso, soviet, event, object and body stand out and add context to how "tunguska" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include amongst soviet tunguska investigators by and at the tunguska site. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tunguska" sits close to words such as aat, abhorrence and abms, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tunguska
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Description Trees knocked over by the Tunguska blast. (8 words)
June Evidence of the Tunguska event (June 30). (8 words)
The cometary hypothesis gained a general acceptance amongst Soviet Tunguska investigators by the 1960s. (14 words)
Soviet experiments performed in the mid-1960s, with model forests (made of matches on wire stakes) and small explosive charges slid downward on wires, produced butterfly-shaped blast patterns strikingly similar to the pattern found at the Tunguska site. (39 words)
Meanwhile, the theory that the Tunguska space object consisted of iron would explain why there are no iron droplets at the epicentre – they wouldn’t have reached the planet's surface because of its immense speed. (36 words)
He pointed out that a body composed of cometary material, travelling through the atmosphere along such a shallow trajectory, ought to have disintegrated, whereas the Tunguska body apparently remained intact into the lower atmosphere. (34 words)
Example sentences (14)
Space disasters Fallen trees caused by the Tunguska meteoroid of the Tunguska event in June 1908.
The Tunguska event coincided with the peak activity of that shower, citation and the approximate trajectory of the Tunguska object is consistent with what would be expected from a fragment of Comet Encke.
In 1908, a powerful asteroid is thought to have struck the Tunguska river in a remote Siberian forest in Russia.
Meanwhile, the theory that the Tunguska space object consisted of iron would explain why there are no iron droplets at the epicentre – they wouldn’t have reached the planet's surface because of its immense speed.
Calculations of its trajectory indicate the Tunguska object came from the same patch of sky.
Description Trees knocked over by the Tunguska blast.
Finally, the lake's long axis points to the hypocentre of the Tunguska explosion, about convert away.
He pointed out that a body composed of cometary material, travelling through the atmosphere along such a shallow trajectory, ought to have disintegrated, whereas the Tunguska body apparently remained intact into the lower atmosphere.
June Evidence of the Tunguska event (June 30).
Similar events seeAlso Tunguska event is not the only example of a great unobserved explosion event.
Soviet experiments performed in the mid-1960s, with model forests (made of matches on wire stakes) and small explosive charges slid downward on wires, produced butterfly-shaped blast patterns strikingly similar to the pattern found at the Tunguska site.
The cometary hypothesis gained a general acceptance amongst Soviet Tunguska investigators by the 1960s.
They do not dispute that the Tunguska body exploded in mid-air but believe that a ten-metre fragment survived the explosion and struck the ground.
This hypothesis was further boosted in 2001, when Farinella, Foschini, et al. released a study calculating the probabilities based on orbital modelling extracted form the atmospheric trajectories of the Tunguska object.
Common combinations with tunguska
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: