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How do you use Waterboarded in a sentence? See 6 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.

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Waterboarded in a sentence

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Waterboarded | Waterboarding | Waterboard

Waterboarded meaning

simple past and past participle of waterboard

Using Waterboarded

  • The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of waterboard
  • In the example corpus, waterboarded often appears in combinations such as: was waterboarded.

Context around Waterboarded

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

doctor 1×

Often after:

183 1× once 1×

Sentence patterns with Waterboarded

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

had been waterboarded once 1× hannity being waterboarded 1× he was waterboarded 183 times 1× nashiri was waterboarded at least 1× suspects were waterboarded an interrogation 1× the doctor waterboarded a confession 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

but they indicate 1× he was captured 1× her opponents argued 1× the bush administration 1× the doctor waterboarded 1× this lawsuit won 1×

Common sentence endings:

been waterboarded once 1× confirming this fact 1× hannity being waterboarded 1× in november 2002 1× that simulates drowning 1× to other violence 1×

Words around Waterboarded

Just before it in the word index:

waterboard 5 waterbirds 16 waterbird 7 waterberg 8 waterbending 6 waterbenders 4

Just after it in the word index:

waterboarding 14 waterbodies 17 waterbody 6 waterbombing 2 waterborne 45 waterboro 5

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaas 8 aacc 8 aacs 8 aafes 8 aankh 8 aapp 8

Corpus analysis for Waterboarded

  • In this selection, "waterboarded" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, doctor, 183 and once stand out and add context to how "waterboarded" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include had been waterboarded once and hannity being waterboarded. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "waterboarded" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with waterboarded

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

The Bush administration in 2007 said that Zubaydah had been waterboarded once. (12 words)

The Doctor waterboarded a confession out of a Cincinnati official confirming this fact. (13 words)

This lawsuit won’t kill Fox, but maybe they can settle for a few million dollars and Hannity being waterboarded. (20 words)

Longer example sentences

He was captured in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on March 1, 2003, and held in a series of secret C.I.A. prisons, where he was waterboarded 183 times, kept nude, sleep deprived, had his diet manipulated and subjected to other violence. (40 words)

Her opponents argued that it wasn’t right to promote someone who supervised a covert detention site in Thailand where terror suspects were waterboarded, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning. (30 words)

But they indicate she arrived before another detainee, Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, was waterboarded at least three times in November 2002. (22 words)

Example sentences (6)

He was captured in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on March 1, 2003, and held in a series of secret C.I.A. prisons, where he was waterboarded 183 times, kept nude, sleep deprived, had his diet manipulated and subjected to other violence.

The Doctor waterboarded a confession out of a Cincinnati official confirming this fact.

But they indicate she arrived before another detainee, Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, was waterboarded at least three times in November 2002.

Her opponents argued that it wasn’t right to promote someone who supervised a covert detention site in Thailand where terror suspects were waterboarded, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning.

This lawsuit won’t kill Fox, but maybe they can settle for a few million dollars and Hannity being waterboarded.

The Bush administration in 2007 said that Zubaydah had been waterboarded once.

Common combinations with waterboarded

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "waterboarded" in a sentence?
An example: "He was captured in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on March 1, 2003, and held in a series of secret C.I.A. prisons, where he was waterboarded 183 times, kept nude, sleep deprived, had his diet manipulated and subjected to other violence." This page contains 6 example sentences with the word "waterboarded" from authentic English texts.
What does "waterboarded" mean?
Waterboarded means: simple past and past participle of waterboard
How many example sentences with "waterboarded" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 6 example sentences with "waterboarded", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.