How to Use the Middle Ages in a Sentence

the Middle Ages

noun
  • The 1980s, suffice it to say, were not the Middle Ages.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Plague Think the plague disease died in the Middle Ages?
    Michael Gollust, Health, 19 Feb. 2023
  • In the Middle Ages, the road outside the cathedral passed 16 shoe shops.
    Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Or so it was held among German serfs in the Middle Ages.
    Jack Butler, National Review, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Regardless, all of the paths have places to stay, some of which have been there since the Middle Ages.
    Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • In the Middle Ages, Christian hermits and monks moved in.
    Nina Burleigh, New York Times, 21 May 2024
  • In the years before the Middle Ages, the fort was the center of defense for the community.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 3 July 2024
  • In the Middle Ages, plague caused a pandemic called the Black Death and was thought to spread by fleas carried by rats.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Some of the Breite’s oldest trees, with deep grooves in their bark, have towered since the Middle Ages.
    Kate Eshelby, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Since at least the Middle Ages, the paczek has provided a delicious way to do just that.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • By the Middle Ages, long before Johnson’s time, certain inns used pewter for mugs to keep beer and ale cold.
    Time, 23 June 2023
  • Though their religious order has been around since the Middle Ages, the monastery is about to be axed by the Archdiocese.
    Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • This would be the first such global-population decline since the Black Death in the Middle Ages.
    The Week Uk, theweek, 7 July 2024
  • It’s also plagued squirrels since at least the Middle Ages, according to a new study.
    Bysean Cummings, science.org, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Because the clothing of the Middle Ages was so structured—think: bodices and stays—clothing did the work of lending support.
    Christina Pérez, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2024
  • While each route has its unique history and heritage, the Camino Frances has been the most popular trail since the Middle Ages and is about 500 miles.
    Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 21 June 2024
  • Initially, in the Middle Ages, the people of Ivrea threw beans at one another.
    Jon Mooallem Andrea Frazzetta, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • During the Middle Ages, the poetic engravings were mostly placed on the outside of the ring.
    Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The dragons of the Middle Ages and Renaissance were always fierce, and almost always fiery.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The negativity around Gamay has deeper roots than the 1980s, reaching as far back as the Middle Ages.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 12 May 2024
  • It's been used as a spice since the Middle Ages and is a key ingredient in popular recipes like pumpkin pie, eggnog, and beef stew.
    Jillian Kubala, Health, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The start of this engagement brought an end to the fiction that a return to the Middle Ages was possible, let alone desirable.
    Massimo Faggioli, Foreign Affairs, 30 Nov. 2018
  • Custard pies date back all the way to the Middle Ages, when Romans first discovered the binding properties of eggs.
    Marianne Williams, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Of course, the art form has been around much longer than that, with some types of living pictures being performed as early as during the Middle Ages.
    Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The study of animals’ remedies continued in the Middle Ages.
    Adrienne Mayor, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2024
  • This began during the Middle Ages when it was believed the date marked the beginning of birds' mating season.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2024
  • According to the team, wild squirrels were trapped throughout the Middle Ages and harvested as a source of fur or housed as household pets.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2024
  • These flavors have been central to Bologna’s food heritage since the Middle Ages, when the Quadrilatero’s first purveyors opened shops.
    Kelsy Chauvin, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Hildegard von Bingen was for me an early feminist of the Middle Ages.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2023
  • From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, the Wa have been steadily denigrated.
    Patrick Winn, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2024

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