How to Use townspeople in a Sentence

townspeople

plural noun

• The church in Tongue held a special service, and the townspeople came out to grieve.
  — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
• It’s where the townspeople hid in their barns and basements.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 3 July 2021
• Waving Ukrainian flags, the townspeople took to the streets.
  — James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• In one game, carts of live pigs were thrown from the top of the hill, leaving the townspeople below clamoring to catch the meat.
  — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• The roar of the water and debris blotted out townspeople’s cries for help.
  — oregonlive, 1 July 2021
• Each year, the town and the townspeople get covered in colored flour, which is thrown on locals and tourists alike.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 19 Feb. 2023
• Because of that mist, all of the townspeople are being held for fear of dark magic.
  — USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
• Can the townspeople put a stop to the (wildly creative) murders?
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 6 Sep. 2023
• The idea works but sews dissension among the townspeople.
  — Jeffrey Sipe, Variety, 7 Oct. 2021
• But enough townspeople signed a petition to bring the question back to the Town Meeting this week.
  — Chelsea Sheasley, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2022
• But even with all these portents and the news of Boudicca’s approach, the leaders told the townspeople not to worry.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 14 May 2021
• And of course, after cutting his tour short, Santa wanted to make it up to the townspeople.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2021
• Most of the townspeople can’t imagine life without them.
  — Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• As a young adult, Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones), who doesn’t trust the nearby townspeople, is accused of murder.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
• The two offered all sorts of explanations for the longevity of the townspeople.
  — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2022
• Paige tends to keep her distance from the other townspeople and only deals with cash to avoid a paper trail.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 17 July 2021
• This was just the fuel the townspeople needed to confirm there was dark magic afoot.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 29 Apr. 2022
• That the townspeople left these tributes for him in silent honor, year after year.
  — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 28 May 2023
• The victors, along with hundreds of townspeople, destroyed the vestiges of the militia.
  — Washington Post, 8 May 2021
• Holmes’ parents opened the Blue Front in 1948 to serve hot meals to townspeople who labored at the cotton gin or on the surrounding farms.
  — Timothy Ivy, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Aug. 2021
• The film follows several townspeople who try to decide what to do with a dead body.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2023
• Some townspeople have sent donations — from a few bucks to $1,000 — just to support the venture.
  — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, 21 July 2022
• There also is a strong sense of resilience, townspeople said.
  — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2022
• The dollars collected at the end of the event will be used to identify the priorities of the townspeople.
  — Steve Smith, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2022
• The visit brings back a lot of bad memories for Noa, of both her bad breakup with Zack and how the townspeople treated her and still view her.
  — Sun Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2022
• This place has been beset by ghosts for some time to the point that some townspeople wear scarecrow sacks over their heads as protection.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 18 Dec. 2021
• Some townspeople go out on Highway 54 for a closer view.
  — Dallas News, 11 June 2021
• Despite the harrumphs of the younger Thoreau, most townspeople welcomed the arrival of the Fitchburg Railroad in 1844.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• Later in the skirmishes, with the help of deputized townspeople, Chafin dropped homemade pipe bombs on the marchers.
  — Abby Lee Hood, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Aug. 2021
• The war also cut off the cross-border trade that had provided a livelihood for many townspeople.
  — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024