How to Use villager in a Sentence

villager

noun

• The members of the group said that the villagers had three days.
  — Nicolas Niarchos, Time, 30 Jan. 2020
• In the 13th century, villagers would gift eggs to the lords of the manor or to the church.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 5 Feb. 2024
• The nickname is a simple but poignant joke on the part of the villagers.
  — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• Her dream: to rally the villagers to build a new school.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2023
• High above the road, at the top of the cliffs, dozens of villagers had gathered from Jaba and a-Ram.
  — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
• Tell them that killing villagers is against house rules?
  — Virginia Sole-Smith, Parents, 28 May 2024
• Nearby, villagers of Kyark start to slink to their homes.
  — Arbab Ali & Nadeem Sarwar, Saveur, 18 Apr. 2024
• The villagers keep half the produce; the rest goes to Mil, Martínez’s small restaurant here, and Central.
  — Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
• The villagers seem to have felt that this area was theirs, and other areas were not.
  — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
• Most of our time in Herat was spent in cafes with villagers.
  — Brett Murphy, USA Today, 9 Jan. 2020
• Later, with the church locked and the priest abed, the villagers and visitors danced on the midnight beach to the sound of the shepherds' pipes.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2023
• Officials said some villagers might have been forced by the crime group to take part.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 11 July 2023
• So with the help of Church and Trench, who show up just in time, the Expendables free the villagers and take on Vilain’s army.
  — Richard Newby, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2023
• The villager got out of his Toyota and came over to film the conversation, too.
  — Alexander Sammon, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2022
• The trees are sacred to the Bishnoi people, and a villager led a protest by wrapping her arms around a trunk.
  — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• Both male and female villagers insist that the family drop the charges against the three young men, one of whom is the girl’s cousin.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• As the fiddler plays, Tevye removes the red jacket to reveal the clothing of a villager.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 20 Oct. 2022
• Some of these villagers work at Everest base camp and are exposed there too.
  — Alton C. Byers, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
• Much of this money failed to reach the villagers whose lives had been devastated by the tragedy.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 15 Nov. 2019
• The villager spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals by the government.
  — Time, 18 June 2021
• In 2019, one was accused of fatally shooting a villager in the back.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2021
• One looks like a villager who came straight from a Bavarian rave and is still tripping hard.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020
• The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they’re told by the scientists.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
• Few villagers work in the industry, in part because the job only lasts for a short season.
  — WIRED, 15 July 2023
• The track is based on a folk song recorded several years ago among villagers in central Ukraine, to which the band added drums and synths.
  — Daria Mitiuk Brendan Hoffman, New York Times, 5 June 2024
• The Palestinian farmers and villagers are struggling to hold on to their lands and livelihoods.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
• The creators of the game even playfully pushed back against the idea that the villagers were hardcore Brexiteers.
  — Amrita Khalid, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2019
• Huang Hua, a villager in his 30s, saw bitter irony in depending on the firm for survival.
  — Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2019
• In one of them, villagers, including children, were seen running away while looking back at the orange trail in the sky, with some covering their ears for the crash.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 24 June 2024
• Rebuilding a structure causes flowers to blossom around them, while villagers cheer at each for a job well done.
  — Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2024

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2024