Example sentences for: sheffield

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

  • Way back in 1890 he explained that concentrations of industry (yes, they existed before Silicon Valley--his prime example was the Sheffield cutlery district) can create a virtuous circle in which the availability of skilled labor, the presence of specialized suppliers, and the diffusion of knowledge . Increasing returns to consumption are probably less common, but can result among other things from "network externalities"--a bit of useful jargon for what happens when the usefulness of a product depends on how many other people possess something similar.

  • You can find Manchester, Sheffield, and Cambridge in Jamaica, to name but three.

  • “Most of what you've just seen goes on in the UK too,” I remarked to our British visitors as we drove down off the mesa, to which the lady from Sheffield rejoined, “Oh, no, I don't think so.

  • The National Centre for Popular Music opened in Sheffield in March but is already threatened with closure after attracting fewer than half the visitors it expected.

  • It culminated in this assertion: "You can't trust Sheffield Nelson."


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