How to Use Amish in a Sentence

Amish

adjective
  • For something a bit more casual, head to the Amish barn for hearty breakfast and lunch fare.
    Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The crash is at least the second in which children riding in an Amish buggy died as a result of a crash in the US in the past week.
    Macie Goldfarb, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Formal education for the Amish ends with the eighth grade.
    Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Our last stop is Worth the Drive, a large Amish bakery literally in the middle of nowhere.
    R29 Team, refinery29.com, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Outside are a guest cabin, Amish pole barn, pool, firepits, and grill station.
    The Week Staff, theweek, 2 July 2024
  • Cruise along at your own pace and opt for stops at Finger Lakes wineries and shops selling Amish quilts.
    Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2024
  • The Amish barn, flanked by garden beds and picnic tables, functions as both a café and a market.
    Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The Dover sole is sublime, as are the Amish chicken and the pork chop with chanterelle mushrooms—not to mention the delectable duck-fat fries.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • That’s Amish country, with corn fields and cow pastures, horses and buggies.
    Steve Appleford, SPIN, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Rachel Yoder returns to the land of her family’s Amish roots, seeking folk medicine and answers.
    Peter Rubin, Longreads, 11 July 2023
  • Fresh Amish turkeys will be available starting the week of Thanksgiving.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 18 Nov. 2020
  • But Pascal buys his produce, some meats and cheeses from local farmers, many of them Amish and Mennonite.
    Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Two people and a horse have been killed after a collision between an Amish buggy and a car in Minnesota.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Seven of those in the van were members of an Amish community in Virginia, the Sentinel reported.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The call had come from Mechanicsville, an Amish community that sought outside help only in matters of life or death.
    Amy Brittain, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Two introspective Amish girls in gem-tone dresses sat by a window, watching.
    Rachel Yoder, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 2023
  • Many Amish and Mennonite families do not send their children to private or public high schools.
    Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The intrigue: Holmes County in the heart of Amish country is a major outlier, with more than one-third of residents lacking insurance in 2022.
    Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024
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    al, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The family member who reported the illnesses walked about a half-mile to a telephone booth to call 911, as the family is Amish and does not have a telephone, Fantom said Saturday.
    Jordan D. Brown, CNN, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The woman, who officials have not publicly identified, was a 23-year-old member of the Amish community, police told GoErie.com.
    Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The fresh take on flexible work frees Smucker employees to live thousands of miles from Orrville, a tiny town outside Akron with a sizable Amish population.
    Byjane Thier, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2023
  • With a setting of Amish buggies, horses, and folks sitting on wooden benches taking in Monroe’s music, Garcia had second thoughts.
    Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The ceiling paneling in the great room and several vanities use planks of wood that are nearly 200 years old and that were salvaged from the sellers’ previous historic home by Amish woodworkers.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2023
  • Seven victims of the crash were members of the Amish community in Virginia and were visiting family in Wisconsin.
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Holmes County, with a substantial Amish population, has the lowest rate of insured residents.
    Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The residents of a retirement community in the heart of Amish country are proving what experts on aging have been saying for years: Older adults are as keen on new technologies as anyone else.
    Julie Jargon, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2023
  • And while the area has remained predominantly rural — with roadside farms and Amish markets — Dunkirk's downtown area has many shops, restaurants, beaches, a historic lighthouse, and a lakefront marina.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2023
  • One of her most memorable experiences was getting a wave of envelopes from Amish bakers after a community magazine featured the starter.
    Denver Post, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Listen to this article A Pennsylvania man arrested in the murder of a pregnant Amish woman last month was expected to appear in court on Friday for a preliminary hearing.
    Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2024

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