How to Use village in a Sentence

village

noun
  • Entire villages come to see the parade.
  • Then, from the fields around the village, came the sound of gunshots.
    Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The village will be open to adding to the plaza as time moves along.
    George Castle, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Zoom out: The village of Loudonville is just a few miles up the road.
    Axios Local, Axios, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The tiny home village was erected on the other side of the fence.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • For a change of scenery, drive down to the village of Lorgues for the afternoon.
    David Nash, Town & Country, 16 Jan. 2023
  • All across the village weeds and debris rule the land around the houses.
    Leslie T. Chang, The New York Review of Books, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Debris from cities and villages is brought here in dump trucks at all hours of the day.
    Nicole Tung, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024
  • His best friend, Abdul White, came from the same village.
    Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Thieves nabbed four cars in the village last month, that’s twice the number of cars stolen in the month during the past two years.
    Molly Walsh | Mwalsh@cleveland.com, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2022
  • On June 27, a military jet struck a monastery in the village of Nyaung Kone.
    Weiyi Cai, New York Times, 31 July 2023
  • Might be best to take a trip to the village of Luck, near the Minnesota border.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The village is less than four hours from New York City or Boston.
    Linnea Bailey, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The sheik does not want the unwelcome news of his brother’s return to reach the rest of the village.
    Ed Meza, Variety, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Some still use burros to lug water from the well uphill to the village.
    Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • However, the rental shop is a bit of a hike through the village to reach the main gondola.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The hotel is a quick hop to the West End, a village filled with restaurants and bars, and even closer to some dive sites.
    Nora Walsh, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2024
  • One of the most photographed spots on the parkway, the historic Mabry Mill, sits a short drive from the village (or the center of town).
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Sep. 2024
  • About halfway to the village, people are seen on the side of the road offering to chain your tires for $50 a car.
    Amy Delaura, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Then again, every town, village and city in the Haute Savoie is surrounded by the Alps.
    Steve Wartenberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Nearest village to the North Pole is about eight hundred miles away.
    Eli Grober, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2022
  • And a Syrian woman and her two sons, ages 2 and 13, were killed in an airstrike in the Lebanese village of As-Sawana.
    Diego Ibarra Sánchez, NPR, 29 Feb. 2024
  • This means another mile-long slog and a full tour of this pop-up village of dreams.
    Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Creer said the last significant change to the village website was in 2016.
    Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
  • It’s burnt orange, lighter in color and sweeter than chiles for sale in the village.
    John Burnett, NPR, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Beyond the village, miles of pure coastal wilderness await.
    Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The village of Two Harbors is there as well, with a general store to stock up on goods.
    Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Like the one about visiting a small farming village and winning the award for Best in Beard.
    Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
  • That’s where Kennedy, coming from a 1,000 person village outside Belfast, found his Irish community.
    Kayleigh Ruller, Charlotte Observer, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Modeled after Mediterranean villages in France and Spain, the area was revitalized in 2017 as a pedestrian-only street.
    Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2025

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