How to Use hamlet in a Sentence

hamlet

noun

• There were four people living in the hamlet, but the law requires at least five residents.
  — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 11 Feb. 2020
• Munda is less a town than a collection of hamlets, centered on a market of rickety stalls and run-down shops.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 May 2020
• This data shows that people are fleeing urban cities in favor of hide-outs in hamlets, smaller cities or waterfront towns.
  — Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 14 May 2020
• The tiny hamlet of less than 1,000 people was nothing like its glitzy Hamptons neighbors to the east and south.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 30 Mar. 2020
• King’s calls of 1963 still reverberate in every village and hamlet.
  — Darren Walker, Time, 20 Feb. 2020
• The area that includes the hamlet of Monsey - home to a large Hasidic population - which now has one of the highest per capita infection rates in the country.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2020
• The speech of the hamlet had primed my ear for the poet’s tongue.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• This mountain hamlet is one of the snowiest spots in Japan — and the world.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 23 Feb. 2023
• The city is named after a tiny hamlet on the Isle of Mull in Scotland.
  — Joe Yogerst, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• Six of those killed were in and around the small hamlet of Winterset on the edge of the Des Moines metro area.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2022
• Among them was the strike at the Syrian hamlet of Tokhar.
  — New York Times, 18 Dec. 2021
• At the hamlet of Arakhpal, because of the dust, the palm trees have turned black and farming has ceased.
  — Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023
• But that’s not the only thing British in this upstate hamlet.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 11 Aug. 2022
• The mansion is located in the town in the hamlet of Wainscot in New York State.
  — Jennifer Yuma, Variety, 30 Nov. 2021
• The incident took place in a small hamlet in Saint-Just, about 300 miles south-east of Paris.
  — NBC News, 23 Dec. 2020
• Stay in the nearby hamlet of Búðir, about 30 minutes away.
  — Maya Silver, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2024
• Fewer than 500 people live in the tiny hamlet of Alplaus, New York.
  — CBS News, 3 Feb. 2022
• The rare Bay Area neighborhood that could be called a hamlet.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Nov. 2020
• There is a hamlet with a fire station on one side of the creek and a convenience store on the other.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• The dogs belonged to a couple from the area of Cohasset, a hamlet where homes burned.
  — Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2024
• After many years of searching for a place upstate, my wife and I chose to live in the same hamlet as Paul and Sarah.
  — Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2023
• By a hamlet called Zv’yazok there were three guards in snowsuits and a black Labrador called Lucky on patrol.
  — Tim Judah, The New York Review of Books, 19 Feb. 2022
• A month later, in the predawn hours, airstrikes hit the shops in Sinzai and killed villagers in different parts of the hamlet.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Oct. 2021
• In the film, Natalia, 30, moves from the big city to a rustic derelict house in a hamlet, La Escapa, buried in the countryside.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
• About two hours from Rome, the hamlet has a population of 2,000.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2020
• In the ’50s it was promoted as a hamlet outside the bustle.
  — New York Times, 8 Oct. 2021
• Petito grew up on Long Island in the hamlet of Blue Point.
  — Melissa Alonso, Dakin Andone and Travis Caldwell, CNN, 26 Sep. 2021
• Ibiza, the party-loving wild child of the bunch, has a shy side too, by way of hillside hamlets and a storied old town.
  — Jessica Benavides Canepa, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2023
• But the lingering image of that rustic hamlet with red clay rooves, fringed by blue shades of sea, calls me back.
  — Todd Miller, Contributor, CNBC, 31 July 2024
• Clint Eastwood is often associated with the hamlet located at the southern end of the Monterey Peninsula.
  — Jessica Ritz, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024