Get to know Woakes better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Woakes in a sentence
Woakes meaning
A surname.
Using Woakes
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname.
- In the example corpus, woakes often appears in combinations such as: chris woakes, woakes and, woakes has.
Context around Woakes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Woakes
- In this selection, "woakes" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, chris, fours, body, returns, smears and threatened stand out and add context to how "woakes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ali chris woakes and adil and and chris woakes all vying. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "woakes" sits close to words such as adil, agra and amicably, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with woakes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Warner's fast start comes to an end from a Woakes full ball. (13 words)
Three for Woakes in what has been a successful return to first-class cricket. (14 words)
Woakes pitches one up to Head that hits the pads but it was heading safely down leg. (17 words)
The bowling stocks are already fit to bursting as the hovers into view, with the likes of Jofra Archer, Mark Wood and Chris Woakes all vying to join the current squad, but an even thornier decision awaits in the top seven. (41 words)
Reece Topley claimed three for 37 while there were a couple of wickets apiece for Sam Curran and Rehan Ahmed and one each for Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes and Adil Rashid as England levelled the series at 2-2. (39 words)
Chris Woakes with a peach of a delivery which gets rid of Babar Azam for 15. after being hit for two back to back fours, Woakes returns with a brilliant inswinger to which the batsman has no answer. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Chris Woakes with a peach of a delivery which gets rid of Babar Azam for 15. after being hit for two back to back fours, Woakes returns with a brilliant inswinger to which the batsman has no answer.
After Rashid tucks a single off his body, Woakes smears a short ball for four to end the over.
Attempting to offer no stroke, he grazed Woakes through to Bairstow as England moved within two wickets of completing the job.
Chris Woakes threatened the unlikely late on but his 32 only delayed the inevitable as England were dismissed in the penultimate over.
It was very, very wide and very, very short, and Hridoy cuts it to Woakes at backward point.
Mark Wood (right) roars with delight as he celebrates England’s tense third-Test win over Australia with Chris Woakes.
Marsh would try his best to make that the last English celebration of the day but Woakes would have the Aussies on a string.
Max O’Dowd flapped Woakes to mid-off to get things moving and David Willey had Colin Ackermann caught behind for a duck.
Over a few hours on the first day of the fourth Test at Manchester, Woakes had more to add to that mix-tape.
Reece Topley claimed three for 37 while there were a couple of wickets apiece for Sam Curran and Rehan Ahmed and one each for Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes and Adil Rashid as England levelled the series at 2-2.
Sam Curran and Chris Woakes have both endured poor tournaments, while neither Gus Atkinson nor David Willey have yet featured.
The bowling stocks are already fit to bursting as the hovers into view, with the likes of Jofra Archer, Mark Wood and Chris Woakes all vying to join the current squad, but an even thornier decision awaits in the top seven.
The game was over as a contest long before the end came, Chris Woakes taking three for 31 in a clinical new-ball burst alongside Reece Topley.
They finished the journey in economy, with opening batter posting a photo on his Instagram showing Chris Woakes and Jos Buttler looking tired on their travel to Guwahati.
Three for Woakes in what has been a successful return to first-class cricket.
Warner's fast start comes to an end from a Woakes full ball.
With Woakes twice smashing the left-armer through the off side for four, and Willey following suit to whip Hazlewood through mid-wicket, some more Zampa magic was required.
Woakes dispatched Hasan Mahmud for consecutive fours at the start of the 20th over to leave England needing 19 off four balls but the Bangladesh quick recovered his composure to help his side get over the line.
Woakes pitches one up to Head that hits the pads but it was heading safely down leg.
Angelo Mathews (36) had looked typically assured after the lunch interval before chipping a catch to Chris Woakes at mid on from the bowling of Shoaib Bashir.
Common combinations with woakes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- chris woakes 41×
- woakes and 8×
- woakes has 5×
- woakes at 4×
- to woakes 3×
- woakes was 3×
- woakes are 3×
- and woakes 3×
- woakes taking 2×
- woakes in 2×