townspeople
IPA: tˈaʊnzpipʌɫ
noun
- the people living in a municipality smaller than a city
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Examples of "townspeople" in Sentences
- He is constantly in the service of the townspeople.
- Gradually the townspeople also leave the dining hall.
- Many of the townspeople were prejudiced against Anton.
- His successful effort wins the admiration of the townspeople.
- Finn defeats the bandit, earning the respect of the townspeople.
- After ingratiating himself with the townspeople, he was acquitted.
- Assorted other townspeople also came in and out of the bakery as well.
- Some of the townspeople are outraged by the influx of Chinese immigrants.
- Homer is blamed and pelted with vegetables by the unforgiving townspeople.
- The townspeople cheerfully welcome her back and apologize for suspecting her.
- The townspeople are a gallery of surly grotesques living in fear of the town bully, Jørgen
- He called the townspeople secret Roman sympathizers and had his soldiers kill a number of them.
- Intimately associated with the life and habits of the townspeople were the coaches travelling between London, Royston and
- Although several of the residents of Heronsdene are developed individually as characters, the townspeople are also dominated by an ominous group psychology.
- A vivid portrayal of the tensions between the cultures of the hop-pickers, the gypsies and the townspeople is richly displayed through the use of dialect, history and landscapes.
- Moreover this dread of the suppression of the visible protection of the policeman is essentially a sentiment of townspeople, that is, of people who are living in abnormal and artificial conditions.
- The townspeople were a particularly uninteresting type — unmarried females were predominant for the most part — with school-festival horizons and souls bleak as the forbidding white architecture of the three churches.
- The townspeople were a particularly uninteresting type -- unmarried females were predominant for the most part -- with school-festival horizons and souls bleak as the forbidding white architecture of the three churches.
- The army officers, aware that alienation of the townspeople was a good way to find themselves fighting alone if an invasion attempt was made, turned a blind eye to anything that did not clearly threaten Hawk Haven's border.
- Heidi's cryptic hints sometimes make me think of the unhelpful innkeepers and townspeople from the early '90s MS-DOS version of In the World Is Carmen Sandiego? who were always crappy at remembering details that didn't relate to flags.
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