How to Use medieval in a Sentence

medieval

1 of 2 adjective

• They're using a computer system that seems positively medieval by today's standards.
• The medieval world is a lot like the world of childhood.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• These people are clowns, jesters, fools in the medieval sense.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• For the group date, the women trained to be knights, competing in medieval garb.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2024
• This whole spicy saga is giving a medieval eye-for-an-eye.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 8 Dec. 2023
• His collection of medieval manuscripts makes up a large portion of the show.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023
• Some look like the ruins of medieval castles – lone walls with holes where windows used to be.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 12 Feb. 2024
• Then head out of the city to find Christmas spirit in small towns like medieval Rothenburg or go skiing in the Alps.
  — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 24 Sep. 2023
• Along with the Kyiv sites, the U.N. cultural agency added the medieval center of the western city of Lviv to its danger list.
  — Jintak Han, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023
• Students paint as residents of the French estate in the medieval village of Rochefort-en-Terre.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 28 May 2023
• Holly did not, at first, want to go into the law; her dream was to teach medieval history.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• The town is known for its mix of renaissance, baroque, and Romanesque buildings, and parts of the medieval city walls remain intact.
  — Kayla Brock, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Aug. 2023
• The coroner’s rolls are packed with medieval crime procedure.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2024
• In medieval times, one might be sent on a pilgrimage by a magistrate as a sentence for a crime.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• The final dance is based on a poem by the medieval North Indian mystic Kabir about death freeing the soul from the confines of life.
  — Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• For the members of its medieval audience, the tragic story invoked the passion of Christ.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• In the medieval era, men and women both carried personal items in bags or purses.
  — Jane Kamensky, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2023
• The estate’s current owners saved the property, one of the largest medieval castles in the Provence region, from ruin back in 2003.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 3 May 2023
• This cantata by Carl Orff is based on two dozen medieval poems.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2023
• Anything where a woman with ennui wanders around a medieval town and runs her hand along a curtain.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
• Then, eat your weight in white truffle pasta and fresh seafood before walking it off around Dubrovnik’s medieval Old Town. 24.
  — Elizabeth Preske, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2023
• Researchers also found wrecks and artifacts from the medieval period and the time of the Ottoman Empire.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 21 Mar. 2024
• Jordan Hall crowds have rarely felt more silent than during the French medieval lament that opened the concert, sung by a solo soprano in the balcony.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
• The medieval English would infuse mead with herbs to alleviate a whole host of ailments.
  — Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2023
• An ancient retaining wall of a medieval moat and the moat bed were also found, officials said in Dec. 15 and Jan. 7 Facebook posts.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
• The idea had been to watch the daylight break and appreciate the reflection of the magnificent Roman and medieval bridge.
  — Ann Abel, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• While the film is set in the 14th century, the dialogue and music are definitely not of the time, putting a modern twist on a medieval story.
  — Lia Beck, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2023
• Here, the narrow lanes are curlicues, like a medieval village, with abundant courtyards, alleyways and dead ends.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
• Officers have likened the violent spree to a medieval battle.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 25 July 2023
• The finding leads the researchers to believe there may be an older settlement buried underneath or near the one from the medieval period.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024

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medieval

2 of 2 noun

• Its goal is nothing less than being the A-list medieval #MeToo drama du jour.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2021
• Fanone, who later described the scene as medieval, told reporters he was shocked on the back of his neck with a stun gun about half a dozen times.
  — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2021
• Make your workout more medieval with this steel mace from Onnit.
  — Mark Stock and Ebenezer Samuel, Men's Health, 2 Dec. 2022
• Starting May 13 and for at least the rest of the month, the medieval Bled Castle will host an exposition on bees and beekeeping in the area.
  — Jeanine Barone, New York Times, 9 May 2018
• Builders in the medieval and Renaissance periods used the Roman quarries on the Via Salaria.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 1 Feb. 2022
• To do this, the anglers employ a variety of methods, ranging from the medieval to ones that would make James Bond proud.
  — Kirk Deeter, Field & Stream, 5 Dec. 2020
• He was astonished by the news that the giant is a late-Saxon or early-medieval creation.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 12 May 2021
• Now, the last remnant of his medieval-looking estate has just been listed for $13.85 million.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 21 Sep. 2022
• Protests have been erupting in the woods near the monastery, the monks have fled, and Harnwell is preoccupied with pet problems: his dog likes to eat lamb shank, and his cat drowned in a medieval well.
  — Ben Munster, The New Yorker, 24 May 2021
• Along the way, cyclists pedal past medieval walled villages like Montreuil and the 18th-century Chateau de Long.
  — David Farley, WSJ, 10 May 2018
• The storybook castle sits behind a stone wall and comes with its own medieval-looking tower.
  — Dana Givens, Robb Report, 14 Nov. 2022
• But for Nygren, the photograph called to mind medieval and Renaissance representations of the Ark of the Covenant.
  — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2021
• The rhetoric must be unbridled—extreme, savoring almost of the medieval.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 17 June 2021
• The invite promises a weekend of bloodsports, but what Greer and the other invitees don't know is that the Medievals just might be hunting, shooting and fishing them over the next three days.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2017
• To the Ukrainian soldiers, the plant was a stronghold, surrounded on three sides by water, ringed by high walls, as seemingly impregnable as a medieval keep.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• Earlier artifacts dating back to the Roman era have been found beneath the medieval remains.
  — Fox News, 25 June 2020
• And during the medieval, Tudor and Victorian eras, residents expanded the church and continued to bury the deceased there through the early 1900s, per the Guardian.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2021
• Maxx Crosby and Yannick Ngakoue get medieval on Burrow.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 11 Jan. 2022
• Although most manuscripts date to the late medieval and early modern periods, the practice of copying by hand endured in Yemen well into the 20th century.
  — Christian C. Sahner, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2018
• Followed by the grace of Lucca, with its medieval, baroque and neoclassical influences.
  — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• While princes of Wales in medieval and renaissance times usually resided, at least for a while, in Wale before becoming king, there were eight princes of Wales in the 17th and 18th centuries who didn’t set foot in Wales at all.
  — Juliet Rieden, Town & Country, 8 Sep. 2022
• The architecture is somewhere between modernist (there are two circular windows) and medieval, the building framed in front by a pair of giant old spruce trees.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2022
• Exposed 13th century walls–a 30-meter muralla medieval–are showcased in the home, which includes four fireplaces, a wine cellar and a rooftop terrace with views to the mountains and sea.
  — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 16 July 2022
• On Greenwood Lake, the unusual property sits behind a stone wall and has a medieval-looking tower and rooftop battlements.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
• Thin footpaths weave past remnants of a fifth-century hut, ancient field boundaries and an eighth-century medieval chapel, still with its holy water stoup.
  — Kate Eshelby, CNN, 14 June 2021
• Joey King goes medieval in this rollicking 2022 action comedy/fairy tale mashup.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 26 June 2022
• The fantastical setting is gone too, in favor of a more realistic medieval setting with dark undertones akin to a Souls game.
  — Jhaan Elker, Washington Post, 22 June 2022
• Billed in its display as medieval—perhaps several hundred years old at most—the sword struck Dall’Armellina, an expert in Bronze Age artifacts, as something far more ancient.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
• When gathered together, the medieval with the modern, the national with the imperial, and the abundant with the rare, these diverse monetary objects provide a bird’s-eye view of the last millennia.
  — Ellen Feingold, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2022
• The women appear in profile: a frequent choice for Carpaccio, who favored static composition that can feel timeless, or even a little medieval.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022

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