Example sentences for: midland

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

  • RH-II labels this current expression to be of South Midland and southern U.S. origin and means “to be on the verge of.”

  • There is also the learned guess, as in the etymology for groundhog , the Midland name for the eastern woodchuck, which may be a calque from Dutch aertoercken , and archaic variant of aardvarken , literally `earth pig'; or hieronymous , a euphemism for the posterior, which may derive from Greek hieron osteon , the name for the sacrum; or the southern Appalachian expression to come out of the little end of the horn meaning `to be unlucky,' which is probably an allusion to a “reverse” cornucopia.

  • Midland and Tobermory offer boat cruises and shuttle services out to individual islands.

  • But for a most exciting confrontation with the prehistoric world of dinosaurs, make for the new Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology on the Midland provincial park’s North Dinosaur Trail.

  • Ethanol is a ludicrous fuel made out of corn, at a cost far higher than the petroleum it replaces, produced with a huge government tax subsidy, which started during the energy crisis a quarter-century ago and has long since become a classic case study of stupid policy entrenched by special interests (in this case farmers and Archer Daniels Midland, the company responsible for the fabulous discovery that if you tell the government what to do in commercials on every Sunday talk show, the government apparently is powerless to resist).


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