Wellfleet is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Wellfleet in a sentence
Wellfleet meaning
A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
Using Wellfleet
- The main meaning on this page is: A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
- In the example corpus, wellfleet often appears in combinations such as: in wellfleet, wellfleet bay.
Context around Wellfleet
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 3 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wellfleet
- In this selection, "wellfleet" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, now, near, government, bay, massachusetts and high stand out and add context to how "wellfleet" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 6 the wellfleet public library and audubon s wellfleet bay wildlife. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wellfleet" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wellfleet
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Cheilostome bryozoan with serpulid tubes; Recent; Cape Cod Bay, Duck Creek, near Wellfleet, Massachusetts. (14 words)
Wellfleet's oyster beds drove the early economy, as did whaling and other fishing endeavors. (15 words)
Ten dolphins died during the stranding Friday at The Gut - or Great Island - in Wellfleet, at the Herring River. (19 words)
Government Wellfleet is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Fourth Barnstable district, which includes (with the exception of Brewster) all the towns east and north of Harwich on the Cape. (36 words)
A decade ago, Massachusetts Audubon Society’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary had a horseshoe crab education program that hatched eggs and kept them in their display aquariums, according to sanctuary director Robert Prescott. (33 words)
There are two post offices, and both are also located along Route 6. The Wellfleet Public Library is located in the town center, in a former curtain and candle factory converted in 1989. (33 words)
Example sentences (12)
The documentary film, directed and produced by Ivy Meeropol, follows the local Cape community after the 2018 death of a young man off the coast of Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet.
The petition also demands that NYU and Wellfleet make abortion services available on campus, instead of at off-campus clinics.
Ten dolphins died during the stranding Friday at The Gut - or Great Island - in Wellfleet, at the Herring River.
The number of warm water stuck on beaches here has risen dramatically in the past decade, according to the Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
A decade ago, Massachusetts Audubon Society’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary had a horseshoe crab education program that hatched eggs and kept them in their display aquariums, according to sanctuary director Robert Prescott.
A small whaling community was founded on the land that is now Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, and was originally known as Silver Spring, after Silver Spring Brook.
Cheilostome bryozoan with serpulid tubes; Recent; Cape Cod Bay, Duck Creek, near Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
Government Wellfleet is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Fourth Barnstable district, which includes (with the exception of Brewster) all the towns east and north of Harwich on the Cape.
There are no private schools in Wellfleet; high school students may, however, choose to attend Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in Harwich free of charge.
There are two post offices, and both are also located along Route 6. The Wellfleet Public Library is located in the town center, in a former curtain and candle factory converted in 1989.
Wellfleet Elementary School is located just off Route 6 near the town center, and serves students from kindergarten to fifth grade.
Wellfleet's oyster beds drove the early economy, as did whaling and other fishing endeavors.
Common combinations with wellfleet
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in wellfleet 3×
- wellfleet bay 3×