Example sentences for: medieval

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

  • Arrive early in the morning for your first look across the hills from the grey-stone towers of San Gimignano (a “medieval Manhattan”), or come to Siena’s Piazza del Campo at sunset.

  • Neal should have been worried about Inga being jailbait but at that point he was pretty focused on medieval literature, and kept on reciting passages from Chaucer and El Cid and talking about how Giotto was a better painter than Van Gogh, nokidding.

  • Their idols were the Pre-Raphaelite ideologues John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whose passion for medieval Italian art before the individualizing tendencies of the Renaissance (hence "pre-Raphael") they shared.

  • On the other side of the peninsula, off the tourist track in the peninsula’s “heel,” are the curiously romantic landscapes of Puglia, from its centuries-old trulli constructions to the medieval fortresses of the German emperors.

  • In Siena, the locals drive miniature three-wheeled vans, pickup trucks, and even dump trucks designed to navigate the city's tiny medieval passageways.


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