Examples of the Middle Ages in a Sentence
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The angelic figures who guide slain heroes to the afterlife in Valhalla – paradise in Norse legends – were first written about in the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda manuscripts in the Middle Ages.
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Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
All pasta was a rarefied food in the Middle Ages, but few forms captured the popular imagination as completely as stuffed pasta, considered the noblest of the species.
—Dawn Davis Sharon Radisch Soneela Nankani Emma Kehlbeck Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 13 May 2024
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
This led into the Middle Ages, a time of intense lows (the Bubonic Plague) and, eventually, highs (the Renaissance, a transition into modernity).
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 10 May 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
May 1, or May Day, has been celebrated for centuries, dating back to the Middle Ages in Europe.
—Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2024
In the Middle Ages, humanities – grammar, logic, rhetoric – prepared you to do science.
—Timothy Morton, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2024
In the Middle Ages, the road outside the cathedral passed 16 shoe shops.
—Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2024
Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
All pasta was a rarefied food in the Middle Ages, but few forms captured the popular imagination as completely as stuffed pasta, considered the noblest of the species.
—Dawn Davis Sharon Radisch Soneela Nankani Emma Kehlbeck Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 13 May 2024
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
This led into the Middle Ages, a time of intense lows (the Bubonic Plague) and, eventually, highs (the Renaissance, a transition into modernity).
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 10 May 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
May 1, or May Day, has been celebrated for centuries, dating back to the Middle Ages in Europe.
—Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2024
In the Middle Ages, humanities – grammar, logic, rhetoric – prepared you to do science.
—Timothy Morton, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2024
In the Middle Ages, the road outside the cathedral passed 16 shoe shops.
—Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2024
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