How to Use small-town in a Sentence

small-town

adjective

• But Thomasville’s small-town charm has come through since.
  — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• What gets in the way of college for small-town and rural students?
  — Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
• Season 1 plays out sort of like a small-town mystery that just so happens to take place at the end of the world.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 14 June 2023
• Her final summer in small-town Kentucky is off to a great start, when all of a sudden, things take a turn.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2024
• The place is typical small-town bar kitsch, with dollar bills stuck to the ceiling and mounted elk and deer heads.
  — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
• Whether this small-town wrestling league can support new faces and new competitors is the focus now.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 28 July 2023
• So it's been fun coming from small-town Alaska to be in a city with lots of stuff going on, music, art and all that.
  — Simone Manuel, Glamour, 26 Sep. 2023
• Vermont's Upper Valley is putting a fresh spin on small-town life.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 27 Aug. 2023
• The location provides a laidback, small-town feel and is a short car ride from the vibrance of Dallas-Fort Worth.
  — Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 30 May 2023
• Maine is full of small-town charm that often gets overlooked when visitors flock to the southernmost parts of the state.
  — Erinne Magee, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2024
• The show is about how a small-town spelling bee affects not just the students competing in it but their parents and their teachers.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
• The couple bought their home in 2017, attracted to the mountain views, tranquility and small-town life.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
• While organizers say this year’s trip aims to break the world record for the largest group bike ride, bikers learn to appreciate small-town life along the way.
  — Lauryn Azu, Chicago Tribune, 27 July 2023
• This is a road trip in the purest and most literal sense, the telling spare in an odyssey of self, family history and small-town America.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2023
• Such is the experience of watching Dig, Theresa Rebeck’s play about a small-town plant shop.
  — Vulture, 20 Sep. 2023
• Other candidates walked in small-town parades and shook hands with voters in New Hampshire and Iowa.
  — Brittany Bernstein, National Review, 5 July 2023
• In Ojai, the housing shortage has been compounded by strict slow-growth laws, which — along with a ban on chain stores — were intended to maintain the small-town charm.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• The book tells the story of Swift’s rise to fame, from her small-town beginnings in Pennsylvania, to her move to Nashville, to her travels touring around the globe.
  — Tim Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Apr. 2024
• From piles of crab legs at swank Las Vegas casinos to pans of fried chicken in small-town Southern restaurants, the buffet is back, baby.
  — Kim Severson, New York Times, 26 June 2023
• In the film, as an imminent construction project looms over a beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England Sunday league teams face off for the last time over the course of a day.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024
• Plenty of people visit Ashland for non-theatrical reasons, but many come for the world-class theater and the small-town feel.
  — oregonlive, 9 June 2023
• Related Boston hit an all-time graduation high in 2022, but can the rate be trusted?Colleges have been a small-town lifeline.
  — James Vaznis, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• The draws are many: endless mountain views, clean air, small-town living, and tranquility.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2024
• The city has a fun, quirky vibe, but still holds onto a small-town feel with a cute downtown square and pocket after pocket of charming neighborhoods.
  — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2023
• A lot of money goes to small-city and small-town departments—which is to say, police departments in red America.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 17 May 2023
• The brutal Arctic tundra, rare glimpses of sunlight, and eccentric small-town characters are the draw here.
  — Andrea Duncan-Mao, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024
• Other than in Pella, small-town libraries under threat didn’t invite me.
  — Diana Goetsch, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
• For a show about high school football games, this small-town series somehow came to embody a certain Southern culture.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 5 July 2023
• Below, the most eye-opening moments from the series about the small-town Abbott, Texas, boy who became one of the most beloved musicians in history.
  — Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
• The small-town intrigue might have stayed in a small town, though, had Cody not initiated a dramatic step earlier this month.
  — Jonathan O'Connell, Paul Farhi and Sofia Andrade, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024