Example sentences for: yorkshire

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

  • My Yorkshire friend looked inquiringly into my face.

  • He was taking it home to Yorkshire to prove to the locals just how high the cost of living is in Switzerland.

  • Halifax (West Yorkshire) does not mean holy hair, traditionally referring to some martyred maiden, but probably nook of land with coarse grass, the first part of the name representing Old English halh (related to modern hole and hollow ), and the hair in this case being long, straggly grass.

  • 14 Old York, Old York --A brooding English writer (Laurence Olivier) is fascinated, against his better judgment, by a wisecracking American girl (Ginger Rogers) who scoots around his Yorkshire hotel lobby backward on heels humming to herself with her arms splayed.

  • The Loyalists joined earlier settlers from New England, Pennsylvania, and Yorkshire, and French Acadians who had trickled back after their deportation during the Anglo-French wars.


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