Example sentences for: normans

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

  • The Normans, following the pattern of earlier invaders, became rapidly assimilated.

  • In 1169 the Normans landed in Wexford, beginning the struggle between England and Ireland that was to dominate Irish history until independence.

  • The Normans from Scan­di­navia took advantage of the Carolingian dynasty’s divided kingdom, pillaging their way inland along the Loire and the Seine, and plundering Paris in 845.

  • The Italian people, with Latins and Etruscans mixing over themillennia with Greeks, Lombards, Normans, French, and Spaniards, are as fascinatingly diverse as this panoply of landscapes.

  • Surname was indeed an adaptation of French surnom , but the Normans called it that because in Latin it was a super nomen , an `extra name.


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