Example sentences for: yorkshire

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

  • I remember walking down to the harbor, early one very misty morning, with a friend from Yorkshire who was coming out on the boat to watch us haul the creaves (lobster pots).

  • While gardeners today make the distinction between heath and heather plants, these words are said to derive by separate paths from some ancient word for wasteland; heath via the Anglo-Saxon, and heather via Norse hadder . In Scandinavia, the plant itself is called lyng or ling , which is a common name in Yorkshire and northern England generally for what the Scots and Irish call heather . Ling is used as a name in parts of Scotland too, but this includes the rough grasses as well as the heathers that grow on the wasterland.

  • 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.

  • My Yorkshire friend looked inquiringly into my face.

  • After a few minutes of deep reflection, my Yorkshire friend could contain himself no longer.


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