Tyee is an English word of 4 letters. Below you'll find 6 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tyee in a sentence
Tyee meaning
- A tribal chief of the Chinookan peoples in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
- A large chinook salmon that weighs more than 13.5 kg.
Using Tyee
- The main meaning on this page is: A tribal chief of the Chinookan peoples in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. | A large chinook salmon that weighs more than 13.5 kg.
- In the example corpus, tyee often appears in combinations such as: the tyee, tyee and, skin tyee.
Context around Tyee
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tyee
- In this selection, "tyee" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, skin, lake, use and band stand out and add context to how "tyee" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include lake and tyee lake and of the tyee and former. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tyee" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tyee
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
She requested that The Tyee use a pseudonym to protect her privacy. (12 words)
The main source for Petersburg and Wrangell is Tyee Lake on the mainland near Wrangell. (15 words)
He showed charts of dropping water levels at the reservoirs at Swan Lake and Tyee Lake. (16 words)
Among the supporters was Robert Skin, who said he was elected to the council of the Skin Tyee First Nation, which is part of the Wet'suwet'en Nation, to move the community forward. (34 words)
The Skin Tyee Band is helping coordinate volunteers and is providing them with food and shelter, while helicopters, drones and police service dogs also look for the missing girl. (29 words)
Andrew MacLeod, the B.C. Legislative Bureau Chief of the Tyee and former Martlet Editor-in-Chief, visited that class as a guest lecturer. (24 words)
Example sentences (6)
She requested that The Tyee use a pseudonym to protect her privacy.
The Skin Tyee Band is helping coordinate volunteers and is providing them with food and shelter, while helicopters, drones and police service dogs also look for the missing girl.
Among the supporters was Robert Skin, who said he was elected to the council of the Skin Tyee First Nation, which is part of the Wet'suwet'en Nation, to move the community forward.
The main source for Petersburg and Wrangell is Tyee Lake on the mainland near Wrangell.
Andrew MacLeod, the B.C. Legislative Bureau Chief of the Tyee and former Martlet Editor-in-Chief, visited that class as a guest lecturer.
He showed charts of dropping water levels at the reservoirs at Swan Lake and Tyee Lake.
Common combinations with tyee
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: