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.
  • He's got medieval weapons all over.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Most of these caves were carved out during the medieval era.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 3 May 2026
  • And then there’s getting medieval on your ass.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The team dressed up in medieval costumes.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2026
  • These people are clowns, jesters, fools in the medieval sense.
    — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The town of Trim is home to many medieval structures.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 22 May 2026
  • Then there are medieval castles.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Rest assured, though, that bed nooks are very much for grown-ups, and have been since medieval times.
    — Chloe Frost-Smith, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Or maybe your fantasy skews more medieval.
    — Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The Dark Ages have a medieval setting?
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Who doesn’t love an imaginary medieval world?
    — EW.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Scent boxes recreate the aromas of a medieval kitchen or chapel.
    — Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The origins of eggnog date back to medieval times, when it was used as a remedy for colds.
    — Caroline C. Boyle, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
  • For the group date, the women trained to be knights, competing in medieval garb.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Some look like the ruins of medieval castles – lone walls with holes where windows used to be.
    — Helen Regan, CNN, 12 Feb. 2024
  • There was something about medieval art that resonated with me.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The medieval shoe dates back to the late 13th century.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The coroner’s rolls are packed with medieval crime procedure.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2024
  • In medieval disputes, knights toss a glove to the ground to challenge each other to a duel.
    — New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • One answer to this, for medieval thinkers, is to train the eye to see differently.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Kean himself gets a tattoo hand-poked into his skin and applies medieval salves to his wounds.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Trails weave through medieval castles, moorland and rugged coastlines.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
  • Even its embossed gold letters were written in a vaguely medieval script.
    — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • Not exactly medieval bona fides.
    — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • Also less than 2 hours from London lies the medieval city of York.
    — Carinne Geil Botta, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • This is hard nose, grind it out, gritty, medieval knights, cold with a really light, hopeful touch.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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

medieval

2 of 2 noun
  • Make your workout more medieval with this steel mace from Onnit.
    — Mark Stock and Ebenezer Samuel, Men's Health, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Gardin showed us a country where the medieval and the modern, the down-and-out and la dolce vita, seemed to coexist.
    — Max Norman, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The storybook castle sits behind a stone wall and comes with its own medieval-looking tower.
    — Dana Givens, Robb Report, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Its goal is nothing less than being the A-list medieval #MeToo drama du jour.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Inside, early-medieval frescoes covered the walls.
    — Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The rhetoric must be unbridled—extreme, savoring almost of the medieval.
    — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 17 June 2021
  • 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
  • Just a short walk away, nestled in the medieval Château Grimaldi, is the Musée Picasso.
    — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Followed by the grace of Lucca, with its medieval, baroque and neoclassical influences.
    — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • Earlier artifacts dating back to the Roman era have been found beneath the medieval remains.
    — Fox News, 25 June 2020
  • The Vulgate Cycle was a medieval All My Children.
    — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • But considering these crafty medieval Norwegians were hunting minke whales, no wonder.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Joey King goes medieval in this rollicking 2022 action comedy/fairy tale mashup.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 26 June 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
  • 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
  • Builders in the medieval and Renaissance periods used the Roman quarries on the Via Salaria.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 1 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • The result is a sense of medieval-meets-millennial nostalgia—cozy, a little chaotic, and oddly comforting.
    — Angelika Pokovba, Martha Stewart, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Language’s ability both to reveal and to conceal is at the heart of this engrossing history of medieval encoded and encrypted manuscripts.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • For those looking for cultural stimuli, the city of Rovereto offers an historic center with medieval and baroque architecture.
    — Catherine Sabino, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Researchers have advanced the study of late-medieval mercury treatments by analyzing concentrations in dental calculus instead of bone for the first time.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 17 May 2026
  • One is the spectacle of modern bourgeois life in Paris, a city then recently transformed from a grimy medieval labyrinth into a glistening network of broad urban boulevards.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • With a focus on medieval and Renaissance music, Blackmore’s Night puts a contemporary spin upon centuries old sound.
    — Jim Ryan, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • But for Nygren, the photograph called to mind medieval and Renaissance representations of the Ark of the Covenant.
    — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2021

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