village green
Example Sentences
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I meet him on the village green in Reeth and we walk down to the banks of the River Swale.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
“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
Countless hundreds of birds, orbiting the village green once, elasticking longer, twice, winging shorter, three times, then, as if following an order, vanishing inside the tree again.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
