Mendips
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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A Mendips pub has become home to a 26-foot snowman made of wine bottles this festive season.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2024
His single-mindedness, determination and resulting mental anguish to finding fame and fortune in return for an escape from Mendips turned out to be a poisoned chalice.
From Salon • Sep. 30, 2022
"When I got on top of the Mendips the rain was coming in sideways and I ran half a mile just to get out of it," he said.
From Fox News • Feb. 14, 2022
A few blocks away is the childhood home of John Lennon himself, called Mendips, where John lived with his Aunt Mimi.
From Washington Times • Nov. 16, 2016
So we hunted through the forenoon, taking one deer, and then rode onward until we came to the place where the great Cheddar gorge cleaves the Mendips across from summit to base, sheer and terrible.
From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
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