Example sentences for: midlands

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

  • 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 .

  • spong Midlands: narrow strip of land

  • In my own family Spoonerisms flourished luxuriantly for many years, and we hardly spoke of the weather, for instance, without invoking their oblique charm: It's rotting with Spain, or perhaps more frequently (it was in the English Midlands, which as Hilaire Belloc said are sodden and unkind): It's roaring with pain.

  • 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 .

  • Not far from where I grew up in the English Midlands there were villages in which “air’ sounds were regularly replaced by “err.


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