How to Use Middle Ages in a Sentence

Middle Ages

plural noun
  • This passed into Old French as embue, and then into English in the late Middle Ages.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Over the centuries, others built on this foundation, including Thomas Aquinas during the High Middle Ages.
    — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
  • Using insurance contracts to bet on the outcomes of wars was so commonplace in the late Middle Ages that the practice was legally prohibited in Genoa.
    — Stuart Jeffries, Air Mail, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Old English was a precursor to modern English and was spoken in England during the early Middle Ages.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 18 May 2026
  • Avignon’s history and architecture dates back much further than the late Middle Ages, however, and Menuhin is deft at explaining its onionlike layers.
    — Kate Maxwell, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Today’s Wordle Etymology The word trick comes into English in the late Middle Ages.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Sofia Andersson, an expert with the county board, described the find as one of the largest early Middle Ages silver treasure collections ever found in Sweden.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
  • But recent research pushes back against the depiction of the early Middle Ages as ignorant and superstitious, arguing that there is a consistency and rationality to healing practices at that time.
    — Meg Leja, The Conversation, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The vivid naturalism achieved in these works was not seen for another millennium, and is often more credited to artists living during the late Middle Ages, including Cimabue and Giotto, who laid the groundwork for the Renaissance.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Rather than being hunched over their game consoles, these guys were reenacting a legend that—according to Liane—dates back to the early Middle Ages, featuring a Catholic maiden called Mata and a Muslim prince called Grifone.
    — Lee Marshall, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 May 2026
  • Reason and religion The names of classical medical innovators like Hippocrates and Galen were well known in the early Middle Ages, but few of their texts were in circulation prior to the 13th century.
    — Meg Leja, The Conversation, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Quiet countryside villages like Naumburg in Saxony-Anhalt and Quedlinburg in the Harz Mountains will take you back to the High Middle Ages and medieval times, respectively.
    — AFAR Media, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The Avars were a nomadic people from Central Asia who settled parts of what is now Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Serbia and Austria during the early Middle Ages.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 1 Dec. 2025
  • In the High Middle Ages, medical understandings of women’s reproductive and maternal bodies were mostly Christian interpretations of classical medical discourse and natural science.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Barnes and Imam had been trading ideas with a scholar named Andrew Willard Jones, whose work focussed on the model of Christendom found in, say, High Middle Ages France, where society was organized around its relationship with the Church.
    — Emma Green, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Now, Lora Popov is living it at Yazsh At some point — likely during Europe’s Middle Ages — a strain of Central American Cucurbita maxima reached South Asia via European explorers, though evidence is scarce.
    — Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Established in 1938 as a branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (more on that further down), The Met Cloisters is considered the country’s only museum dedicated to Middle Ages art and architecture; 227 Travel founder Deb Swacker says not to miss the famous Unicorn Tapestries.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2026

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