Example sentences for: medway

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

  • In 1665–1667 the Dutch sailed up the River Medway and sank the British fleet moored there.

  • It cannot be denied that Abingdon arose by an abbey, for example, or that Maidstone is on the Medway.

  • It is they, therefore, as much as anybody, who are to blame for the continuing fiction that Abingdon means town of the abbey, that Boston is named for St. Botolph, that Coventry means place of the abbey, that the second word of Leighton Buzzard represents French beau désert, that Lichfield means field of the corpses, that Maidstone means Medway town, that Morpeth means moor path, that Redruth means town of the Druids, that Southend is so called because it is at the southern end of Essex, that Westminster is a minster west of St. Paul's Cathedral, and so on.


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