How To Use Yorkshire In A Sentence

Yorkshire abused by such a pitiful prater; and when wrought up to a certain pitch, she would turn and say something of which neither the matter nor the manner recommended her to Mr. Donne's good - will. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
An eye-catching floral tribute to England rugby star Jonny Wilkinson helped Doncaster to shine in this year's Yorkshire in Bloom competition.
On Friday, Jimmy and I are driving up to Yorkshire to attend a wedding.
Milk churns and dairymaids are making a comeback on a Sheffield housing estate where South Yorkshire's first urban dairy will start producing cheese commercially next month.
A SEVEN-year-old Yorkshire child left orphaned by a car crash on the Greek island of Corfu has woken from a coma.

People across the country might reckon we all go about with cloth caps and whippets but Yorkshire is a very beautiful county and perhaps we should be shouting about how wonderful the natural landscape is.
The group consists of every woman officer in South Yorkshire Police from the rank of inspector to our highest ranking female officer, which at the moment is chief superintendent.
Yorkshire folk turned prickly yesterday after a wild flower charity announced that the common harebell had replaced the white rose as the county's floral emblem.
Lessons of IVF babies mix-up ‘will be learned’ Report pinpoints series of failures at Yorkshire fertility clinic where white couple had mixed-race twins in error
Like virtually everyone else in rural North Yorkshire my business depends for its livelihood on people in motorcars.
High speed cost a new driver his life when his car careered out of control and struck a tree, a North Yorkshire inquest was told.
Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Norfolk, &c., shows remarkable deviations in local organization and justice (lagmen, sokes), and great peculiarities as to status (socmen, freemen), while from laws and Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
People in England often have roast beef and Yorkshire pudding for lunch on Sundays.
The pair along with Donald Ideson, who shoots air pistols, are due to compete in the Yorkshire County Championships at Bradford in December.
But United officials told the Yorkshire Post last night that making tickets available internally was standard practice.
I got my first primary headship in Corby, and later in Catterick Garrison in north Yorkshire. Good to Meet You … Colin Golightly
She was acclaimed in the New Year's Honours List in recognition of her continued services to the tourism industry in York and Yorkshire.
A Yorkshire historian is calling on the Queen to help to clear Richard III of the double child murder which has blackened his reputation for more than 500 years.
All farmers, landowners and parish councils in the National Park can apply for grants from the money which has come through Yorkshire and Humber Regional Development Agency.
Masham Parish Council wanted to add uplighters to the stone bridge over the River Ure at a cost of about £4,500, but the scheme is strongly opposed by North Yorkshire County Council whose officials say it would be illegal.
Instead, North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said a faulty cinder box had meant red hot cinders were spilling out on to the bone dry trackside.
Mr Lang, a retired veterinary surgeon, says he can still remember the thrill of seeing the lady's slipper in Yorkshire, long before it had to be heavily guarded.
Army bomb disposal experts from Catterick military base in north Yorkshire are examining debris from both devices.
Peace campaigners today chained themselves to gates at Menwith Hill in an effort to shut down the North Yorkshire spy base.
North Yorkshire's top copper joined the police in 1975.
Hundreds of ducks brought a splash of colour to an East Yorkshire village - and helped raise hundreds of pounds for the local pre-school.
The tip extension would be split into sections lined with clay but Yorkshire Water is concerned contamination may leak out into nearby public water supply boreholes.
The colourful Yorkshireman umpired the first innings of a game between an Old England XI and Lashings World XI at Scarborough Cricket Club.
Postal services could be hit by prolonged strike action over plans to process North Yorkshire's mail in Leeds at weekends.
The set of at least eight chairs, two settees, and four stools was originally in Worsborough Hall in Barnsley, West Riding, Yorkshire.
She has an Oz passport, but if you spoke to her you'd think she came from Yorkshire, where she grew up.
For hundreds of years they have worked the dales, the vales, the moors and rest of Yorkshire's countryside and moulded it into the scenery we admire so much today.
He was born in the small town of Castleford, in Yorkshire.
At Stockton-on-Tees a landfill site has been used for disposal of pigs and sheep from Danby Wiske and Easingwold in North Yorkshire, and dumping of sheep began at a former opencast mine near Widdrington, Northumberland.
Bill collapsed during filming in Yorkshire Television studios in June.
After their comprehensive defeat at Scarborough last Saturday, York will be looking to get their Oxbridge ECB Yorkshire Premier League programme back on the rails this weekend.
He said the project was still on the cards as far as North Yorkshire Police were concerned, but it was a question of money.
Some buses came from as far as Yorkshire, Plymouth and Kent to attend, all wearing different colour liveries and adverts.
Yorkshire miners facing redundancy are set to benefit from an £11m Government package to help them find another job and regenerate the area.
West Yorkshire's special constabulary is recognised as being among the best in the country, and we are proud of that.
The scale of the crisis facing Yorkshire schools emerged last night, with more than 250 teaching jobs to be axed following a Government-funding fiasco.
An impressive viaduct spans the valley a reminder of the time when visitors travelled from Lancashire, Yorkshire and beyond to spend a day around the falls.
Researchers at a Yorkshire university are calling for tighter controls on aviation in an attempt to reduce greenhouse gases and minimise the effects of climate change.
Rotherham is hoping to shrug off its unenviable title of the car crime capital of South Yorkshire with a new crackdown that aims to slash vehicle crime by a fifth.
Police in West Yorkshire are taking on more than 20 financial investigators to make sure that criminals' ill-gotten gains get put back into the community.
Separate ice fields also encroached from the North Sea, driving eastwards through what is now the Vale Of Pickering and covering much of the East Yorkshire plain, leaving the moors and wolds as isolated highlands.
Within weeks of forms going out, the event - run in association with the Yorkshire Professional Golfers' Association - was fully subscribed.
Playing truant from school is mitching in Ulster; twagging in East Yorkshire; slamming in Bradford; jigging in York; skidging in Paisley in Scotland; and skiving almost everywhere.
With a General Election getting ever closer, it would be neglectful of me not to examine what Yorkshire's farming industry wants from the next Government.
A Yorkshire takeaway owner who helped obtain false passports for failed Turkish asylum-seekers so they could stay longer in Britain has been jailed for 18 months.
One of Yorkshire's leading manufacturing spokesmen has sounded a warning note on employment relations activity for the New Year.
He had recently declared in Yorkshire that "nothing on earth should ever tempt him to accept place," and that he was conscious of the power to compel the execution of measures which, before that democratic election, he could only "ventilate". The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837)
The Forestry Commission is urging Yorkshire landowners to think twice before felling trees to ensure their actions do not fall foul of the law.
When it opened it was the first of Yorkshire Water's new coastal schemes to be commissioned.
So LEMMY show you how to make a stodging hangover meal of MotörHEADbangers shepherd’s pie with Yorkshire puddings. Mosh Potatoes
The Yorkshire Building Society has a mortgage capped at 5.79 per cent for three years.
A keen cook, she was happy to allow Joe to pile his dinner plate with extra Yorkshire puddings or the scones and sausage rolls she enjoyed making.
The number of fatal road accidents in North Yorkshire leapt dramatically last year, according to new figures.
The charges follow a joint investigation by West Yorkshire police and the Crown Prosecution Service casework directorate.
An agreement has also been reached for Yorkshire to buy the various income strands at Headingley and also the freehold of the ground.
Their dedication to quality has paid off - with a devoted band of customers throughout West Yorkshire.
The only person who comes forward to defend the McCanns seems to be an "army wife, army mother" who posts as Vancysgu, citing a book called The Skinback Fusiliers, which the Arrsers also delight in slagging off because it portrays trainees at Catterick Garrison in Yorkshire as "a gang of nasty little plonkers". Hugh Muir's diary
I apologise to any purists in case the following suggestion is seen as something of a sacrilege, but can I ask you to help us in calling all Yorkshire poets, rhymesters, bards, balladeers and singers to help us save our pub?
I know that a lot of people in Yorkshire will always blame Nottinghamshire for the outcome but the man who smashed the greatest union this country has ever seen was Arthur Scargill.
Whoever their opponents, York will enter the fray in good heart after a weekend double over West Leeds of Yorkshire Two.
The current proposals are a choice between North Yorkshire Police merging with the West Yorkshire force, or being amalgamated into a Yorkshire and Humber regional force.
Set in the Yorkshire countryside, two seemingly unalike young women discover one summer that they have more in common than they thought.
Close retired from county cricket at the end of the following season, and moved back to Yorkshire. Times, Sunday Times
First, the chef prepares the ground with a barrage of giant popovers - steaming Yorkshire puddings as big as elephant knuckles, and weighted on their tops with crusts of Gruyère cheese.
His promotion means there are now four MPs from Yorkshire and Humber in the Cabinet.
West Yorkshire Police said they have not been able to substantiate any of the allegations.
Today this column makes no excuse for devoting the bulk of its content in tribute to Steve Webster, the 43-year-old North Yorkshire sidecar phenomenon and one of the most over-looked men in British sport.
North Yorkshire's tourist routes were jammed with trippers and Bank Holiday weekend events attracted visitors in their thousands across the county.
Persistent young offenders in York and North Yorkshire could be electronically tagged in a scheme to cut youth crime.
As a Yorkshire born Aussie, the question of Scottish antipathy to the English has vexed me often.
Clive Brill, the director, has had a good idea for the soundscape which doesn't quite work: the Volsci are Yorkshiremen, and the incidental music is therefore all in colliery brass band style. April Books 3) From One To Zero: A Universal History of Numbers, by Georges Ifrah
McCarthy's angular face, a weather-beaten mask of crags and furrows, hides an inner core filled with Yorkshire steel and Irish charm.
After taking his exams at Marlborough, he went to work for an Irish horse-dealer, then, at 17, joined the Middleton Hunt in North Yorkshire as a whipper-in.
A fingerpost bore an admirable red warning sign, a new one on me, it read: ‘East Riding of Yorkshire Council - Criminal Damage Act 1971 - It is an offence to tamper with this sign… £1,000 fine… 6 months imprisonment…’
With Darren Gough, Matthew Hoggard and Kirby all out of the reckoning, Yorkshire will be preparing a pitch which is receptive to spin rather than pace and both Richard Dawson and Andy Gray are expected to play.
Their distinctive rotative engine was complete by 1787, and 4,000 horsepower was in use by 1800, over half in Lancashire, Staffordshire, London, and Yorkshire.
The specialist South Yorkshire Police sniffers and their handlers are being called on to mop up more than 150 missing-person and murder cases.
Now a gaffe by the Highways Agency and the county council has left Lancastrians open to gibes from their Yorkshire neighbours.
The Yorkshire man was a former merchant navy seaman.
The troubles were exclusively revealed by the Yorkshire Post last November.
People in England often have roast beef and Yorkshire pudding for lunch on Sundays.
The airmen of RAF 100 Squadron, based at RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire, took Terence under their wing and with them he has travelled the world and beyond.
I was born and bred in and around the North Yorkshire moors until recently where this saying is still in daily use. Times, Sunday Times
Countryside dwellers are planning direct action protests should a North Yorkshire landfill site be used to bury foot and mouth culled cattle.
The South, the West Country and the Midlands bore the brunt of the weather, but the rain - driven by gale-force south-westerly winds - caused river levels in Yorkshire to rise rapidly.
In Yorkshire the crisis has also hit workers at four meat processing plants.
Much of my Yorkshire stock descended from the Viking Raids of the 9th century.
The craze that is sweeping America and Europe, sending crowds flocking to landmarks or shops to stage zany gatherings, arrived in Yorkshire at the weekend.
Social work in South Yorkshire is in crisis as increasing numbers of vital posts for carers remain unfilled in a situation getting steadily worse.
Yorkshire coach Wayne Clark is philosophical about the disappointing start and confident that his team will soon turn the corner.
It is one of the largest cruck houses in Yorkshire.
Are we, the North Yorkshire council tax payers, paying heavily for the security of secretive, unaccountable American bases while neglecting our own.
A fall in some crimes in South Yorkshire has brought praise from the police authority, which has acknowledged that more work needs to be done to reduce violent offences.
Sir Graham Hall retires this month after five years at the helm of Yorkshire Forward.
A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said they were called to the disturbance and when they arrived a number of people had already left.
Step inside this pretty thatched building in the Yorkshire Dales and take a seat in the candlelit dining room. Times, Sunday Times
Yorkshire Water employees seem to be making a habit of swopping their suits for T-shirts, jeans and wellies, and getting plastered in paint or mud.
Yorkshire has got a long way to go to constantly upskill its people.
And now, thanks to the generous nature of Yorkshire folk, she knows a lot about apple dumplings, pikelets and rabbit patties too.
A founder member of the Rochdale Art Society, Donald Taylor was very well known for oil and watercolour landscapes, mainly depicting the Lake District, the Pennines, the Yorkshire Dales and Whitby.
He was yesterday given bail by South Yorkshire magistrates.
Yesterday's train crash near Selby, North Yorkshire, was clearly a tragic consequence of chance and deadly events.
She lives in a quiet corner of rural Yorkshire.
The prince - who is also titled the Earl of Wessex - was given a tour of the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, which is currently staging its first production after a two-year Â£15. 3 million refurbishment. Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine
He was also second in the Yorkshire Championships at Harrogate and is currently junior champion of Yorkshire.
The two Yorkshire Puddings sit on his lap looking at the world through angel hair matted with dried spit.
His mother is the landlady of a pub in West Yorkshire. Times, Sunday Times
For hundreds of years they have worked the dales, the vales, the moors and rest of Yorkshire's countryside and moulded it into the scenery we admire so much today.
But, in July, the Government announced it was shelving referenda in Yorkshire & the Humber and the North West.
The advertisement, featuring gargoyles superimposed on top of York Minster, was due to be shown on Yorkshire and Tyne Tees tonight and will be aired throughout the week.
Having won all their pool matches Yorkshire faced Cheshire in the semi-finals and notched a 3-0 victory.
Women from across Yorkshire were honoured yesterday in awards recognising their outstanding achievements.
He claimed to have heavyweight support and the Yorkshire Post found plenty of backing for his campaign, which provides the first rallying point for the many people who think another tier of government will be a waste of time at best.
The 23-year-old has 2,000 animals - ranging from Rhode Island reds and leghorns to pheasants, guinea pigs and budgies - at the family farm at Oxspring near Penistone, South Yorkshire.
Enforcement agencies and wildlife groups have formed a special unit to track down poisoners responsible for the ‘mindless killing’ of red kites following their re-introduction in Yorkshire.
Plans are in the pipeline to transform the vast opencast mine near the village with one of the biggest housing projects in South Yorkshire.
One of the great Mediterranean cities can now be reached with low-cost airline Jet2, by passengers flying from Yorkshire.
Arbitrators have been called in as a last-ditch attempt to avert strike action by hundreds of Yorkshire miners.
The Yorkshireman, an outspoken Labour MP who represents Grimsby, had his passionately regionalist speech met with applause from those who attended the convention, the first of its kind in Yorkshire.
There can't be many tipplers in Rotherham and Barnsley who haven't had a pint pulled by Trissie Reynolds - probably South Yorkshire's oldest landlady.
Walkers are unlikely to be able to roam freely across the moors and dales of North Yorkshire this summer, farmers' leader Ben Gill warned today.
They were just great camping trips in beautiful Yorkshire countryside, waking up to the bleating of sheep and doves cooing. Times, Sunday Times
Visitation of Yorkshire records the coat of arms of Wodde (argent, three fleurs de lis, between cotises sable, a border engrailed with the last) in a north window of Almondbury Parish Church.
The former Yorkshire and England star once famously declared that forcing youngsters to wear helmets was turning cricket into a ‘pansy's game’.
West Yorkshire Fire Authority has already approved plans to scrap an aerial appliance at Stanningley fire station earlier this month.
This cute canine is a Yorkshire terrier - just like the one police tried to seize from Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho.
Motorcycle great Barry Sheene will lead a parade of legendary riders in North Yorkshire this weekend.
We have organic beef with almost-organic Yorkshire puddings (I'm unable to find organic lard - presumably it is just too unfashionable in green circles).
Five nurses were attacked when a man went on the rampage through a South Yorkshire hospital, a judge heard.
Today, the references tell us that in many English country dialects, from Yorkshire south to Kent and west to Devon, the green woodpecker was called a yaffle.
The school is oversubscribed, and North Yorkshire County Council has said that some children living furthest away within the catchment cannot have places this year.
If a regional assembly for Yorkshire were to succeed, it would have to generate interest and support among local voters.
The Yorkshire was superb, the vegetables flavoursome, the roast potatoes crunchy, fluffy and floury.
In Yorkshire, 75 per cent of householders waste high levels of energy every day by leaving appliances on standby and leaving chargeable appliances plugged in.
But that could be difficult for the piscine inhabitants of Yorkshire rivers these dark, cold December nights.
A horse and his rider last week achieved a perfect nose-stand after a heart-stopping synchronized fall at the Bramham International Horse Trials in West Yorkshire, UK, according to the Daily Mail.
Cheshire junior girls put up a brave fight before losing by a point to Yorkshire at Low Laithes in an inter-county fixture.
Two Yorkshire cities were yesterday praised for spearheading the region's economic revival and blazing a trail for town planners across the country.
So if anyone deserves being immortalised on celluloid, it is those 12 North Yorkshire women who posed in the buff behind flower arrangements and apple presses.
Every weekend thousands of thrifty Yorkshire folk trek to windswept fields to rummage through boxes of junk in the hope of finding something special.
With the crowds all gathered around, Vic invited local people to pledge their allegiance with more than 100 people stepped up to pledge their allegiance, receiving certificates for being true Yorkshire tykes, white roses and a stick of good old Dewsbury on Sea rock.
Yorkshire is a land of many faces - from the plains and windswept moorlands to tranquil fishing villages.
There's nowt so queer as Yorkshire folk but they've been accepted into the community.
Payment was resisted in Yorkshire and Durham, and the Earl of Northumberland thereupon summoned the nobility and gentry of the North to meet him at York, and told them they must obey the King's demands.
Eavesdropping criminals who use scanners to monitor North Yorkshire police will be foiled by the force's new digital radio system.
Haworth villagers are being urged to go blooming crazy to get the village in tip-top shape before judges arrive for the Yorkshire in Bloom competition.
I did, however, see them tittering, shrieking, guffawing and hooting with laughter at the madcap slapstick that has become the trademark of these two spiky-haired, South Yorkshire clowns.
A teenage girl from South Yorkshire died instantly after her horse bolted out of control and into the path of a car, an inquest heard yesterday.
The zones have been introduced by Defra officials amid fears the disease could spread to highly populated pig breeding areas in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
Yorkshire could be one of the main winners from radical plans to decant about 20,000 civil servants out of London and move them into the English regions, it emerged yesterday.
Scientists are investigating how long geese may be exposed to pesticides as they move about and feed on arable crops in North Yorkshire.
Ross Raisin is a young British author born in Keighley, Yorkshire. Audio Interview with Ross Raisin by Nigel Beale
The two men turned out to be members of a vicious gang of four armed robbers who were responsible for eight separate shootings and 20 hold-ups throughout West Yorkshire.
The cost of your ticket, plus overnight accommodation and full Yorkshire breakfast, will be ￡28.50.
A Yorkshire assembly would have mainly advisory and planning powers.
Scientists in Yorkshire have discovered a defective gene which they believe is a major cause of tunnel vision.
A Yorkshire hospice for sick and dying children is poised to win a massive lottery boost, it was reported today.
News that two young East Yorkshire men are set to become dot com millionaires will provoke a myriad of reactions.
A York Scout group left homeless when an arson attack destroyed their base have found new headquarters in East Yorkshire.
York RI will also play a fixture originally scratched because of poor weather when they travel to Northallerton in Yorkshire Three.
It has called on Business Link York and North Yorkshire for help and advice to achieve its aim within three years.
Yorkshire, are said also to have had but one knife, or "whittle," which was deposited under a tree, and if it was not found there when wanted, the "carle" requiring it called out, "Whittle to the tree! The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies
She lives in a quiet corner of Yorkshire.
Next May sees full council elections across England and Wales, and the BNP is aiming to pick up seats in target areas such as West Yorkshire and Barking, east London.
A pilot who died when his gyroplane crashed in North Yorkshire could have lost control when the aircraft's seat worked loose, according to air accident investigators.
Oliver shows no signs of letting his early health problems hold him back, having played four games for Yorkshire under-11s cricket team already this season.
The hoggery is designed to raise 300 original breed Duroc, Yorkshire and Landrace sows, 30 boars and 5000 breeding pigs.
As more Yorkshire troops and airmen head for the Gulf, the momentum towards conflict looks unstoppable.
It hasn't worked for Haw so far, and I'm not sure it will, but I'm a bit worried that it might work for my pro-hunting Yorkshire friend next time she chains herself to the Commons railings.
The secret's out, as the 4,000 sweaty Mancs who witness the Yorkshire tykes triumph will tell you.
The 51-year-old has been told by a West Yorkshire police medical officer that he is unfit for front line duties.
Last year the Yorkshire Post revealed that the service's fleet of aging ambulances was so poor that many crews were referring emergencies to other stations as no ambulance was available
Count Alan saw Yorkshire as virgin land he could exploit.
Papa's Yorkshire terrier was tied in the truck bed and when one of the elephants walked by, the dog snarled and snapped, straining at the end of her chain.
I had to make Yorkshire puddings and I needed to measure out 4 ounces of plain flour.
Their comprehensive defeat was confounded even further yesterday when they visited Yorkshire Academy in the League Cup quarter-finals.
A month of intense police activity has left criminals ‘running scared’, according to the most senior police officer in North Yorkshire.
But Adil Rashid gave Yorkshire a chance with two wickets in an over: Bell caught for 57 on the cover boundary by Jonny Bairstow, who turned round ebulliently to punch the air towards the main terrace, and Jim Troughton, holing out to long-off where Rudolph caught it with no fuss at all. Jacques Rudolph century proves in vain
Moreover, in true Yorkshire speech, the accent is inseparable from the dialect - though not many would be willing to practise the dialect today, even if they were familiar with the phraseology.
Donations are continuing to pour in to the Yorkshire Post Hidden Disability appeal from big-hearted readers keen to help autistic children have the chance of a better life.
Yorkshire is one of the nation's richest agricultural regions, producing vast quantities of quality food
Yorkshire successfully defended the team title to take gold and the Yorkshire women triumphed for the first time.
The Yorkshire Dales are twenty miles to the north of the city.
A North Yorkshire museum is so unpopular it costs council tax payers a whopping £9.78 per visitor to keep it open.
Many in the Asian community are born and bred in Keighley and have broad West Yorkshire accents; others have been there for 30 or 40 years.
A father of four young children murdered in a drive-by shooting could have been the latest victim of the Yorkshire criminal underworld gun culture, it emerged yesterday.
Sixty years after he parachuted into battle at Arnhem, Yorkshire veteran Tom Hicks descended once again from the skies to mark its anniversary.
Police arrested a drug courier in London after attaching a covert listening device to his vehicle in Yorkshire and monitoring his conversations, a court heard.
One of North Yorkshire's biggest police manhunts was launched.
The creative minds behind building designs across York and North Yorkshire were celebrating today after scooping an armful of gongs for architectural excellence.
North Yorkshire Police have said national guidelines prevent them from commenting on the case until sentence has been passed.
Yorkshire people emerged as being most likely to put off starting a pension, and they were also most likely to waste money treating themselves now.
The two Yorkshire Puddings sit on his lap looking at the world through angel hair matted with dried spit.
We are about to find out as the Yorkshire actor faces a career crossroads. Times, Sunday Times
It reveals that for much of the last 200 years, Yorkshire folk have been living with at least one uncaught murderer in their midst.

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