Example sentences for: gloucestershire

How can you use “gloucestershire” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The newly designed rectangular cage (Fig 1) (made by Corin Spinal, Gloucestershire, UK) had a tapered rectangular design to restore the lumbar lordosis.

  • For him it is a place in Gloucestershire which had its name recorded in 714 as Titlestrop . By Domesday, in 1086, it had become Tedestrop . He therefore explains the name as “outlying farmstead or hamlet of a man called *Tætel.”

  • Badminton derives from the name of the estate in Gloucestershire where the game was first played in England; tennis stems from tenetz , an old form of tenez , from French tenir `to hold'; and squash , according to scholars, probably grew out of the “squashy” sound which the original soft ball made against the wall of the court.

  • An evil fate of this kind befell a friend of mine from Gloucestershire who went to live in Germany near a town called Scheidt , the pronunciation of which proved to substantiate his worst misgivings.

  • On coming to live in Gloucestershire, I was puzzled by tump, daps , and shrammed (hillock, gym shoes, and cold) just as, no doubt, many visiting the north are confused by skinch and clarty.


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