townspeople

How To Use townspeople In A Sentence

• And that in itself becomes the great terrible mystery of the film - the monstrous enigma that propels the townspeople towards some inexplicable, and therefore, inextricable, oblivion.
• Angry townspeople protested in the streets following the explosion, shouting anti-government chants and tossing rocks at security forces.
• The townspeople are hoping the fair will quietly fade away and die because of the usual clashes between the locals and the travellers.
• In the ensuing chaos, not only defenders but a great many townspeople were killed. Times, Sunday Times
• The main businesses were agriculture and tourism; few citizens relied on government jobs, and so the townspeople were less fearful of the regime. Times, Sunday Times
• The film is due to be previewed to those involved in its production, and association members, before being shown to townspeople and released to travel operators and film and television companies.
• Her blondness came mostly from a bottle, but she had been such a sweetly pretty little girl with blonde ringlets that some of the older townspeople still called her Goldilocks.
• More than 260 townspeople now belong to the institution and there are four grades; commoner, landholder, assistant burgess and capital burgess.
• But unbeknownst to the townspeople, he's actually their old sheriff, bullwhipped to death in the streets like a dog.
• The marcher emphasizes that the campesinos are demanding their rights as campesinos, but even more so as humans, contrasting them with the townspeople who, he says, are granted rights and whose rights are respected.