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Example sentences for: midlands

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The term survived the departure of the originals and was soon consciously adopted for all the holidaying patrons, mainly from the Midlands and North, by the large number of seasonal employees at the lake.
The Archers is set in the Midlands, but it seems the word grockle has trqanscended its southwestern connections and become a widely distributed informal term for tourist, summer visitor, or holidaymaker.
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.
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 .
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.