Example sentences for: yorkshire

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

  • I cannot really lay claim to being a native of England's North Country as most of my ancestors left the Borders during the Industrial Revolution, and I was born farther south, in Yorkshire.

  • Bill Bryson, an American who lives in Yorkshire, has written a spirited, engaging book about English.

  • My Yorkshire friend looked inquiringly into my face.

  • The patterns show up in comparisons between countries (such as Spain and Switzerland) and in comparisons between regions within countries (such as East Anglia and Yorkshire, or Iowa and Nevada), and they show up whether you look at snapshots in time or at trends that span decades.

  • The use of v instead of f (It's a vine day) is almost enough on its own to indicate a speaker from southwest England; repeated t in place of the (It's in t' house) suggests a Yorkshire dialect; the use of e instead of a indicates a South African speaker (Shell I give you e hend); a long drawn-out aw rather than a shorter o suggests a southern US speaker (He's gawn fishin' with his dawg).


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