TOWN in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for TOWN, such as:

1. We'll make this town our base.
2. She has several friends in the town.
3. The south side of town is pretty run down.
4. We spent a month in the French town of Le Puy.
5. The town is an ideal base for touring the area.

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 Meanings and Examples of TOWN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
town
 n.  any urban area
 n.  all the people who live in such a place
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The urgent need of a wife became clear to him one morning when he was dressing to ride to town for Court Day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Atlanta had always interested her more than any other town because when she was a child Gerald had told her that she and Atlanta were exactly the same age.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  In the nine years before Scarlett was born, the town had been called, first, Terminus and then Marthasville, and not until the year of Scarlett's birth had it become Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  The older, quieter cities were wont to look upon the bustling new town with the sensations of a hen which has hatched a duckling.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  The people who settled the town called successively Terminus, Marthasville and Atlanta, were a pushy people.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  Restless, energetic people from the older sections of Georgia and from more distant states were drawn to this town that sprawled itself around the junction of the railroads in its center.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  Like herself, the town was a mixture of the old and new in Georgia, in which the old often came off second best in its conflicts with the self-willed and vigorous new.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  Moreover, there was something personal, exciting about a town that was born--or at least christened--the same year she was christened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  The same railroads which had made the town the crossroads of commerce in time of peace were now of vital strategic importance in time of war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  Far from the battle lines, the town and its railroads provided the connecting link between the two armies of the Confederacy, the army in Virginia and the army in Tennessee and the West.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  Scarlett looked about her for the little town she remembered so well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  The town she was now seeing was like a baby grown overnight into a busy, sprawling giant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  Almost the pulsing of the town's heart could be felt as the work went forward night and day, pumping the materials of war up the railway arteries to the two battle fronts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  Trains roared in and out of the town at all hours.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  On the outskirts of town were the remount depots where horses and mules milled about in large corrals, and along side streets were the hospitals.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The historic feeling of the town makes it a pleasant place to base oneself for summer vacations.
17  The town is an ideal base for touring the area.
18  We'll make this town our base.
19  This town is famous for its beautiful buildings.
20  Brisbane has become the boom town for Australian film and television.
21  We need a mayor who is tough enough to clean up this town.
22  The whole town turned out to welcome the team home.
23  We spent a month in the French town of Le Puy.
24  The south side of town is pretty run down.
25  The members of the town coucil disputed for hours about whether to build a new museum.
26  She has several friends in the town.
27  The invader de-vastated the whole town.
28  The bomb had left a swathe of the town centre in ruins.
29  The besieged town hasn't enough food to see the month out.
30  After exploring the old part of town there is a guided tour of the cathedral.