How to Use corpus in a Sentence

corpus

noun

• Jane Austen's corpus is modest in number but magnificent in achievement.
• Better to think of the corpus as the product of a guild, with Hildegard at its head.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• Now there’s a new addition to that corpus: the British rock star Sting.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 July 2021
• The idea is to start with a corpus of text and then, for each word, to analyze those words that appear before and after it.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2021
• By the 1920s nine of the seventy-six signs that appeared more than once in the small corpus had been tentatively read.
  — Josephine Quinn, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
• Dozens of affidavits were contained within the corpus of the lawsuit.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 12 Nov. 2020
• Still, what a corpus: almost two hundred books to date, of which sixty-six have headed the Times best-seller list.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 June 2018
• The rabbit hole that transports Alice to Wonderland might as well be a birth canal concealed within the vast corpus of the earth.
  — Longreads, 27 Mar. 2020
• Thirty years ago, the shareholders did not get their dividends for two years and that went into the corpus.
  — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• Immersion in the corpus provides a ground-level view of the ways Facebook causes harm.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 25 Oct. 2021
• Letter by letter, the neural net, learning from its corpus, would eke out a new sentence.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 6 Oct. 2018
• The forest is dark and deep and menacing, and that menace lies at the heart of the whole corpus of the fairy tales and folktales that form the foundation of our literature.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• Every part of the car, and every corner of the driver’s corpus, was covered with corporate touts.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2022
• A new tool called QnA Maker extracts frequently asked questions from a corpus of text, and serves them up as answers for a chat bot.
  — Peter Sayer, PCWorld, 24 May 2017
• There is currently a petition for a writ of habeas corpus calling for the airport to release the two men from custody.
  — Emma Stefansky, The Hive, 28 Jan. 2017
• The classics corpus is full of meditations on the qualities that make for a good leader.
  — The Economist, 22 June 2019
• And the investment corpus is getting more reserved, too.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 11 Nov. 2020
• Ironically, firms that claim to have no money even to pay their staff, too, have made huge donations to this corpus.
  — Vatsal Bhandari, Quartz India, 6 May 2020
• Even as a corpus of slave narratives circulated, much of the story of what happened to black bodies on these shores was yet to be told.
  — Emily Bernard, The New Republic, 19 June 2018
• Aggressive pounding of the meat stick can cause a tear to the tunica albuginea which opens up the corpus cavernosa and lets all that blood out.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 2 Aug. 2022
• The trust cannot instruct the beneficiary to use the corpus of the trust for the benefit of the transferor, and in fact doing so would be Medicaid fraud.
  — Wesley E. Wright, Houston Chronicle, 19 July 2019
• Then, corpus luteum makes hormones to get your next egg ready for your next menstrual cycle.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 26 July 2017
• Scientific American asked Grieve about his trek through the Trump tweet corpus and the richness of Twitter as a source for linguists.
  — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2019
• Eventually, Aiden and Michel restricted themselves to the third of the corpus – some 5 million books in six languages.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2011
• Especially with the corpus of cash its digital arm Jio Platforms has amassed just this year.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 18 Sep. 2020
• The product of guilt and genius in equal measure, the corpus of great white fictions about apartheid only captures a sliver of the South African experience.
  — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 12 Nov. 2021
• But the same critical spirit could be applied to their own corpus of theology and law.
  — The Economist, 17 Dec. 2019
• Habeas corpus has never been applied to nonhuman animals in New York, says the zoo, and doing so would open the door to legal chaos and add greater strain on the state’s court systems.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 22 May 2022
• His voice alone, at once hypnotic and foreboding, brings me back to evenings in grad school when my German boyfriend did his best to introduce me to the highlights of the Herzog film corpus.
  — Irina Dumitrescu, Longreads, 20 Aug. 2020
• Every generation finds its values eerily anticipated in the corpus.
  — Daniel Hannan, National Review, 13 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024