How to Use medieval in a Sentence

medieval

1 of 2 adjective
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  • 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
  • This is a place of medieval towers and art deco facades, belle époque kavarnas and cobblestones.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 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
  • In Wagner’s medieval Nuremberg, there is no separation between art and life—the town’s leading singer, Hans Sachs, earns his living as a shoemaker.
    — Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2020

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