Example sentences for: midlands

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

  • --Two Christians in the Midlands, England

  • Being born of parents from the East Midlands and spending the early years of my life there, having a name like John Thorpe never really gave me any problems.

  • In response, Midlands Mining promises that no harm will come to the abbey, which provided a moody backdrop to both Childe Harold and Don Juan .

  • If only he'd had the correct word, this uncomfortable event could have been referred to as a tewer , a Midlands term for alleyway.

  • Thus a Dame Jeanne (a big fat-bellied bottle) became a demi-john in English, “God encompasseth us’ became the Goat and Compasses , and the girasole (sunflower) artichoke became the Jerusalem artichoke . The “sparrow grass’ Virginia Howard mentions used to be--and probably still is--common usage in the English Midlands for asparagus .


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