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Whaleboats is an English word. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

Rare word

Whaleboats in a sentence

Related words

Whaleboats | Whaleboat

Whaleboats meaning

plural of whaleboat

Using Whaleboats

  • The main meaning on this page is: plural of whaleboat

Context around Whaleboats

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often after:

hardly 1× towed 1×

Sentence patterns with Whaleboats

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

emptied by whaleboats towed by 1× encounters the whaleboats hardly make 1× send out whaleboats to cruise 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

in the early 1× the ships would 1× when a supply 1×

Common sentence endings:

or even weeks 1× the grand armada 1×

Words around Whaleboats

Just before it in the word index:

whaleboat 4 whaleback 3 whale 901 whakaari 12 whaite 4 whaddya 2

Just after it in the word index:

whalebone 3 whalen 76 whaler 16 whalers 59 whales 677 whaleships 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aabc 5 aacr 5 aacsb 5 aadar 5 aadk 5 aadvantage 5

Corpus analysis for Whaleboats

  • In this selection, "whaleboats" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, hardly and towed stand out and add context to how "whaleboats" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include emptied by whaleboats towed by and encounters the whaleboats hardly make. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "whaleboats" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with whaleboats

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

When a supply ship arrives, it is emptied by whaleboats towed by launches, five tonnes at a time. (18 words)

The ships would anchor in one of these bays and send out whaleboats to cruise for whales for days or even weeks. (22 words)

In the early encounters, the whaleboats hardly make contact; later there are false alarms and routine chases; finally, the massive assembling of whales at the edges of the China Sea in "The Grand Armada". (34 words)

Longer example sentences

In the early encounters, the whaleboats hardly make contact; later there are false alarms and routine chases; finally, the massive assembling of whales at the edges of the China Sea in "The Grand Armada". (34 words)

The ships would anchor in one of these bays and send out whaleboats to cruise for whales for days or even weeks. (22 words)

When a supply ship arrives, it is emptied by whaleboats towed by launches, five tonnes at a time. (18 words)

Example sentences (3)

In the early encounters, the whaleboats hardly make contact; later there are false alarms and routine chases; finally, the massive assembling of whales at the edges of the China Sea in "The Grand Armada".

The ships would anchor in one of these bays and send out whaleboats to cruise for whales for days or even weeks.

When a supply ship arrives, it is emptied by whaleboats towed by launches, five tonnes at a time.

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "whaleboats" in a sentence?
An example: "In the early encounters, the whaleboats hardly make contact; later there are false alarms and routine chases; finally, the massive assembling of whales at the edges of the China Sea in "The Grand Armada"." This page contains 3 example sentences with the word "whaleboats" from authentic English texts.
What does "whaleboats" mean?
Whaleboats means: plural of whaleboat
How many example sentences with "whaleboats" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 3 example sentences with "whaleboats", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.