village

Example Sentences

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There were questions about the quietness of the village afterwards, and the guilt some children felt playing outside when so many families were grieving.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

London’s 2012 Wenlock mascot was a bottom-heavy cyclops figure named for an English village that held a kind of Olympic competition in 1850.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

"We travelled from village to village with our elder brother. That's how we learnt folk and rural musical traditions," Amaran said.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

While planners say "it's all beautiful, it's all fantastic", locals fear environmental impacts, "disruption during the construction work" and potential expansion of the village with new houses or even blocks of flats, he added.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

She was in Rochester when these tricks first begun, but came to Hydesville, the little village in Central New York, where we lived and were born, shortly after.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock