How to Use the Middle Ages in a Sentence

the Middle Ages

noun
  • That’s what the rich people ate in the Middle Ages.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 10 Nov. 2025
  • In the Middle Ages, this would have been unheard of.
    — Bobbi Sutherland, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Book burning is for the Middle Ages and the Taliban.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Regardless, all of the paths have places to stay, some of which have been there since the Middle Ages.
    — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • This was a common fate for children in the Middle Ages, experts said.
    — Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 23 May 2025
  • Suits of plate armor were developed back in the Middle Ages.
    — Deena Prichep, NPR, 27 Nov. 2025
  • In the Middle Ages, the road outside the cathedral passed 16 shoe shops.
    — Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Since at least the Middle Ages, the paczek has provided a delicious way to do just that.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The estate has wine vats from the Middle Ages as well as a communal oven used by local home cooks.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Many of these money-spending traditions can be traced back to the Middle Ages.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Many of these money-spending traditions can be traced back to the Middle Ages.
    — Kate Perez, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Many of these money-spending traditions can be traced back to the Middle Ages.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Many of these money-spending traditions can be traced back to the Middle Ages.
    — Marina Johnson, IndyStar, 5 Feb. 2026
  • In the Middle Ages, people took their pet squirrels for walks and decked them out in flashy accessories.
    — The Atlantic Science Desk, The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2024
  • In the Middle Ages, Europeans thought nutmeg could cure the plague.
    — Greg McKenna, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
  • There were, indeed, in the Middle Ages, some very fine paintings covered in lashings of gold leaf.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Metagenomics can’t prove the shroud is older than the Middle Ages, however.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Some of the Breite’s oldest trees, with deep grooves in their bark, have towered since the Middle Ages.
    — Kate Eshelby, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Lemon balm has also been used as far back as the Middle Ages to help with uncomfortable gas and bloating.
    — Kylie Gilbert, Glamour, 19 Nov. 2024
  • As far back as the Middle Ages, records highlight vendors adding chalk to flour, lead as a sweetener or shells, stones or dust to spices.
    — Frederik Gregaard, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • In the years before the Middle Ages, the fort was the center of defense for the community.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 3 July 2024
  • The flow of goods allowed the village to connect with the outside world and flourish during the Middle Ages.
    — Catherine Sabino, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • While not much is known about the mummy itself, experts believe the largely intact body dates to the Middle Ages.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Plague is the same illness that killed millions of people in Europe during the Middle Ages.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 11 July 2025
  • In the Middle Ages, killings that happened in self-defense or by accident were still punishable by death.
    — Bernadette Meyler, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Ironically, most critics today think of him as part of the Middle Ages himself.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Italian yarn production can trace its origins and craftsmanship back to the Middle Ages.
    — Footwear News, 2 July 2026
  • Set in a castle in the Middle Ages, the epic details a lord and his family living in a haunted mansion.
    — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Initially, in the Middle Ages, the people of Ivrea threw beans at one another.
    — Jon Mooallem Andrea Frazzetta, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • In the Middle Ages, plague caused a pandemic called the Black Death and was thought to spread by fleas carried by rats.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024

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