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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Women wove the family plots that led to marriages and ties between the great noble lines from the Middle Ages until the end of the nineteenth century.
  — Catherine Sabino, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• During the Middle Ages, trepanation was performed to treat such ailments as seizures and skull fractures.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2023
• However, the tales were still widespread during ancient times and the Middle Ages, according to the release.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024