village green
Example Sentences
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“At what point do we regard him as a crank on the village green, a person we can walk away from if we choose?”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2022
The town has “a manor house, a high street with shops, a meadow where sheeps graze, beehive cottages with thatched roofs, a village green which hosts cricket and yearly fetes.”
From Slate • Apr. 23, 2022
At 10 a.m. on a sunny Tuesday morning in early June, the place is as sleepy as a village green.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021
There's a steady stream of people going about their business, with customers popping in and out of the convenience store, which sits in a row of shops overlooking the village green.
From BBC • May 19, 2019
Birdsong strafed and morsed from the oak on the village green.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
