Used in a Sentence

joshua

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for joshua.

Editorial note

You simply won't find guys the size of Valuev or Anthony Joshua in the opposite gender.

Examples18
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A male given name from Hebrew.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of joshua gathered in one view.

noun

A male given name from Hebrew.

noun

The sixth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and a book of the Tanakh.

noun

A city in Johnson County, Texas, United States, named after the biblical Joshua.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for joshua.

noun

A male given name from Hebrew.

noun

The sixth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and a book of the Tanakh.

noun

A city in Johnson County, Texas, United States, named after the biblical Joshua.

noun

A Joshua tree.

Example sentences

1

You simply won't find guys the size of Valuev or Anthony Joshua in the opposite gender.

2

The snippet of code you used was written by Joshua Bloch (author of Effective Java and a then employee of Sun).

3

A long time ago I was having lunch near Joshua Tree with a climber I really respected.

4

This really reminds me of the old Joshua Davis experiments.

5

Other good candidates south (and east) of SF: Joshua Tree (already mentioned), Big Bear, Mammoth, Whitney, Buttermilks and Salton Sea.

6

I don't know enough about this story to have an overall opinion, but this particular exchange made me angry: > His lawyer, Joshua L.

7

If you would have taken half the songs from The Joshua Tree and put them on Achtung Baby, and vice-versa, both albums would have sounded like a mess.

8

One of the Valley's recent poster boys for this phenomenon is Joshua Schachter, who sold his social bookmarking service Delicious to Yahoo in 2005 for a reported $30 million.

9

The author's name is apparently Joshua Roebke.

10

Moonwalking With Einstein by Joshua Foer.

11

When Joshua was working for Google he implemented the rangeCheck method for Android from scratch, but since he was the original author for the Sun Java implementation he naturally did it the same way.

Quote examples

1

For example, compare U2's The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby, both of which are fantastic examples of "tone" albums.

2

In the words of Joshua Tenenbaum and coauthors, "human children learning names for object concepts routinely make strong generalizations from just a few examples".

3

If the opening line is "It was a warm summer's day when Joshua first..." then I just give up then and there.

4

"Effective Java" by Joshua Bloch is very good.

Proper noun examples

1

Joshua Adler is not head of the fund nor has he ever been, Jason Hogg is.

2

Joshua Adler is co-founder of LaKritz Adler, a real estate investment firm based in and focused on the Washington, DC area.

3

I think you'd better work on making your articles say something, Joshua, because this one didn't actually say a fucking thing.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use joshua in a sentence?

You simply won't find guys the size of Valuev or Anthony Joshua in the opposite gender.

What does joshua mean?

A male given name from Hebrew.

What part of speech is joshua?

joshua is commonly used as noun.