How To Use Villa In A Sentence

Imagine an anthropologist visiting a remote tribal village to study its inhabitants.
Most choose to buy in more affordable villages a little way away. Times, Sunday Times
They were close to a little village which the English called Agincourt, and, though that is not quite its right name, it is what we have called the battle ever since. Young Folks' History of England
Under this arrangement, the men of each village were organized into ‘tithings ' and expected to answer for each other's good behaviour.
It is the final guard against nationalistic states that sought the betterment of their people first and foremost and not that of some hypothetical global village or for the internationalistic elite. Pravda blames trotskyites for u.s. empire

Some people believe that Richard III did not murder his nephews and was not the villain he is generally thought to have been.
On Friday, we thought we'd try lunch at the Stag and Hounds in Binfield, but there wasn't a table free, so we'd headed back homewards and went to the poshest place in the village.
Ye same did rede a portion of his "Venus and Adonis," to their prodigious admiration, whereas I, being sleepy and fatigued withal, did deme it but paltry stuff, and was the more discomforted in that ye blody bucanier had got his wind again, and did turn his mind to farting with such villain zeal that presently I was like to choke once more. 1601
Initially von Leeb, using troops borrowed from von Bock, was able to mount a concerted attack both on the defensive positions of the southern suburbs and the area north of the main rail line to Moscow, their objective being the historic village now a suburb of Schlüsselburg, right on Lake Ladoga. Deathride
We were tired but we managed to push along to the next village.
The arrival of the charity van set off a minor riot as villagers scrambled for a share of the aid.
The next day she said the landscape as they cruised along the River Rhine was very picturesque with little villages nestling in the hills.
Mr. Hernandez's monochromatic costumes were 1950s-style, with the plain garb of the villagers contrasting with the cosmopolitan clothes of Neruda and his wife, Matilde, and Di Cosimo's natty, attention-getting white suit. When Postman and Poet Meet
Maybe people are less excitable in Bicester Village. Times, Sunday Times
He appeared periodically in the villages with his eight donkeys, or neddies as he called them, with jingling bells on their headstalls and their burdens of two sacks of small coal on each. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
A man who preyed on the elderly by burgling residential care homes in his own village faces a jail term.
At a recent function in the village's memorial hall, the residents presented her with a bouquet of flowers and £910 that had been collected in the community.
Finally met Judith "with the blue shutters": the American to whom the villagers have been trying to introduce me, going as far as to give me directions to her house "avec les volets bleus". Péquenaud - French Word-A-Day
Some small villages in the northern Andes were left isolated as roads were blocked by slides.
Where else has a village come together to bring works of literature to life? Times, Sunday Times
No individual hero is celebrated in The Four Days, no single villain vilipended.
Nor does either of these dramas, though the earlier depicts a corrupt civilisation, include even among the minor characters anyone who can be called villainous or horrible. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
This year's induction festivities in Cooperstown delivered a much-needed boost to the local economy, as large groups of Cubs and Red Sox fans spent gobs of money along the village's Main Street.
Due to his great success against criminals, he has become the target of a supervillain called Boddicker.
Zhang had been chained to a cowshed in Hunan, southern China, in 2005 after falling out with village officials over a loan to build his house. Zhang Chuanqiu, Chain Skin Victim, Saved By British Media Charity
Facing off against Daredevil's way coolist foe of the day, Death-Stalker, the team-up had a great moment when the villain grabbed GR's flaming skull and was freaked to find that he wouldn't die. DAREDEVIL #102 Marvel Comics, 1973
For the five years before her death his widow had donated an annual gift of £3,000 towards Burley - unknown to many in the village.
The clunky village line is the only wrong note in a film composed of beautifully placed ones. Times, Sunday Times
Wanderers want to forget the Villa disappointment and go into the Fulham game in good heart.
The procession moved through the mountain village at a stately pace.
At harvest time all the villagers lend a hand.
Trevelez is, perhaps, Spain's highest village, the gateway to the Upper Sierra Nevada and the winter ski-slopes, and was as high as I drove.
I thought we were never going to reach it; and then, almost unexpectedly, we suddenly came upon it - a small but ancient village, rising up on a slight eminence, but concealed from view by big clumps of tall-growing reeds.
There is no sign of a supermarket in the villages which dot the land, but home-grown vegetables are pulled directly from the kitchen garden.
The Olympic village ran like clockwork. The Sun
At the same time, we move further away from the great villas and estates of the Roman world and closer to the family farms of the Middle Ages.
From where he sat he could see the trembling lights of the village jewelling the rim of the bay like a circlet of stars. Flood Tide
He must turn rogue and villain; for as the saying is, Necessitas cogit ad turpia, poverty alone makes men thieves, rebels, murderers, traitors, assassins, because of poverty we have sinned, Anatomy of Melancholy
As a rule of thumb, the villages of Barolo and La Morra produce the most perfumed win es, while Monforte d 'Alba and Serralunga produce more structured, powerful wines that require substantial cellaring. In Search of Barolo
It was wonderful, an Orkney village confronted with a swan, a selkie, and a dragon, and the consequences of allowing (or forcing) them to live among humans, as humans. "And when the waves came crashing down, he closed his eyes and softly kissed her."
Villagers then filtered out the sediment by pouring the water through tightly woven cloth.
Altogether, the village is idyllic. Daniel Deronda
To improve the ambience of the village, they cleared the wild growth and widened the roads.
Bankrolled by an allowance from a rich uncle, she finds all of those as she takes small acting roles and moves from cafés and nightclubs in Montparnasse to a villa near Biarritz. 2009 December 07 « One-Minute Book Reviews
Watson had grown up on the rocky coast of New Brunswick in a village with the lyrical name Saint Andrews by the Sea. The Whale Warriors
Marine pilots were advised to drop warning messages on the towns or villages concerned, allowing civilians time to get away. Warfare in the Twentieth Century
Firstly the village can be found on the east side of a great headland protruding out of Loch Carron, and therefore enjoys a position that protects it from sea gales.
A calendar picturing semi-naked men, shot in aid of a village school, has caused uproar after proving too hot to handle.
Entering the village was like passing under an invisible triumphal arch, quite splendid.
In Dorset, archaeologists are appealing for funds to record a Roman villa with mosaics, close to the site of the unique Hinton St Mary Christian mosaic.
He spends his eight weeks of rehabilitation watching the lives across the courtyard behind his Greenwich Village apartment.
The railway station is some distance from the village.
The villages of San Juan and San Salvador Paricutín, the last just one kilometer from the rising volcano, were in danger, but nobody wanted to abandon land and home. Paricutín, The Volcano, Michoacán
The tradesmen like lohar, tarkhan (carpenter), nai (barber) and darzi (tailor) traditionally working in the villages since centuries - mostly paid in the form of grain at the end of each rabi and kharif seasons - are no more pursuing their vocations. Light Within
‘If a village was not pro Viet Cong before we came, it sure was after we left,’ one GI observed.
The little village was almost medieval - ox carts pulled the harvest in and the farmers all wore wooden clogs. Times, Sunday Times
You will see many changes in the village.
The village spirits are considered benign, helping people to have good and happy lives so long as proper rituals are observed.
They were actually hemmed in by cattle grids at each end of the village, he pointed out - and there were disinfectant mats at each entrance to prevent the spread of infection.
Most villagers have cleaned out their bomb shelters and made sure to stock canned food and medical supplies. Times, Sunday Times
The fortress at the entrance to the village was reduced by a sudden attack.
The two unsold detached villas have asking prices of 19,350 and 19,651 yuan a square metre.
Room is left for the ‘higgling of the market’, but, for Proudhon, this is no metaphor; he really means the higgling of the market, the chaffering in the village square between the man selling a cow and the man selling fodder.
It said the flood walls and embankments being proposed would vary in height between one and 1.8 metres and protect most of the village, including the A166, against a one in 100-year flooding event.
Act Three ends powerfully, with the village in flames, good Soviet citizens hanging by their necks, and keening women, including one who is given a ‘mad scene’ of sorts.
De Havilland's poised, elegant Miriam is the perfect foil for haggard, wild-eyed Charlotte.
We've grown very attached to this village and wouldn't want to move.
The villains have them all trussed up down by the stream.
Such is a part of tire strange medley that is before and around me; and amidst them and the blue streams of smoke that are rising from the tops of these hundred "coal-pits," can be seen in distance, the green and boundless, treeless, bushless prairie; and on it, and contiguous to the piquet which encloses the village, a hundred scaffolds, on which their "dead live", as they term it. Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians
He had circled around to come to the village by the south, on the pretence of making it appear that he was headed for Kaye.
Actively cultivating relationships, she freely roamed the village streets, visiting from house to house.
In an affair which the Italian press have dubbed "Rubygate", she is reported to have attended dinners at Mr Berlusconi's private villa outside Milan, where she allegedly witnessed group sex games which the prime minister and his entourage nicknamed "bunga-bunga Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Three-decker novel about the contrasting, intersecting lives of a Chinese boy and girl, born in the same mainland village and brought to America by force of circumstances. Obama Talks. People Listen. Markets Tank.
Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin. Times, Sunday Times
He fails to get the exercise his body needs and is so enwrapped in his world of cyber heroes and villains that he skips meals too.
The tiny village of Clonegal nestles in a picturesque valley, deep in the lush, rolling countryside where counties Carlow, Wexford and Wicklow meet.
It just sounds good and has the power of transforming a village idiot into a prima agnomina.] 5. 10 INDISPENSABLE BROADCAST JOURNALIST'S WORDS/PHRASES
The huddle of poor dwellings, too small to be named a village, clings plastered like martens' nests against rocks, high above a green river.
Instead of trying to undo the damage inflicted by the villain, Captain Nero (played by Eric Bana), the challenge for our heroes is to stop Nero from causing any further damage. Star Trek 2009 Feature Film Review | Fan Cinema Today
More events are planned, as villagers celebrate their unique and historic home.
It will also be used for the provision of small public water and sewerage schemes in smaller towns and villages.
It is certain that Byron had begun the fourth canto, and written some thirty or more stanzas, before Hobhouse rejoined him at his villa of La Mira on the banks of the Brenta, in July, 1817; and it would seem that, although he had begun by saying "that he was too short a time in Rome for it," he speedily overcame his misgivings, and accomplished, as he believed, the last "fytte" of his pilgrimage. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
Their skills increased as they trained and soon Raymond's people matched warriors of the other village.
Today, tourism has moved out of its ghettoes, with fincas, farmhouses and stone cottages reimagined as hotels and villas.
Their labels and names represent both villages and families, with generations of winemaking traditions.
Back roads around Tollerton were almost impassable because of standing water and the only clear way in and out of the village was on the road to and from the A19.
This metal tower is used to relay television signals to distant villages.
With Erin following at a discreet distance, Stone pedalled into the village, keeping to the back streets. CORMORANT
Selsey is a village on the south coast, eight miles from Chichester. Times, Sunday Times
In the 14th and 15th centuries textile manufacture became the dominant industry, especially of cloths called worsteds after a local village.
In one isolated village the people weep and wail, bemoaning their plight.
The walk will recall the town's heroes and villains, history, hauntings and murders, ghosts and ghouls.
‘The village sorrowed when you left,’ she finally said in Elven with the familiar, heavy accent.
One hundred people were evacuated from a village near York today after a storage tank leaked, releasing an explosive cloud of propane gas.
It seems that every town and village in France puts on cultural festivals of some type or another.
That was until a gondola linking the village to the much fêted Verbier was installed. Times, Sunday Times
In the remains of the village the factory crumbles quietly, blocks of concrete and old gateposts tell of what has been.
This will help the rural people from these villages to take their products to nearby towns and metropolitan cities where there is a market for their products.
Chiefdoms are marked by a motley of villages dotted around them.
Skirting the village, the group crossed a little canal and came under intense mortar fire.
A village postwoman has been branded a ‘nasty busy body’ for deliberately withholding mail from a resident who was an ‘outsider’.
There was no one at the beamdown point, which was close to where the undetectable barrier kept the swamp from encroaching on the habitat, but there was a road nearby that took them to the village in less than half an hour's walk. The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students)
The villa is a former flax mill with a fantastic vantage point overlooking the town's medieval castle. Times, Sunday Times
This posting is about intercommunication among Zapoteco villagers in Oaxaca State and the notion that communications among various villages can be improved by foreigners introducing radio signal interrelationships to, supposedly, improve inter-village understanding and, perhaps, harmony. Radio stations in Oaxaca
We left the main road and joined a muddy track that led up towards the villages. The Crossing-Place
It helps keep the village running smoothly and upholds the village's customs.
It enjoys a quiet position near the centre of this pleasant village, just off the A19 Selby Road, little more than a hop, skip and a stagger away from the popular Greyhound pub.
She lives in a poxy little village in the middle of nowhere.
He talked about landslides in previous monsoons that had opened gaping chasms in the cliff behind the village.
Not for the quaint village atmosphere. The Sun
An assignment or exit fee must be paid at the point of selling a leasehold village property. Times, Sunday Times
He was extremely fit and is reputed to have been one of the fastest runners in the village and also regularly won local cycle races.
You won't find a prettier village anywhere in England.
They're building a new school in the village.
The village has been buffeted by mudflows, landslides, river debris, flooding and earthquakes.
Usually one finds on a given manor that ten or fifteen of the villagers have each a virgate of a given number of acres, several more have each a half virgate or a quarter. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
It seems they made a dreadful charivari at the village boundary, threw a quantity of spell-bearing objects over the border, a buffalo's skull and other things; then branded a chamur -- what you would call a currier -- on his hinder parts and drove him and a number of pigs over into Jelbo's village. Under the Deodars
We in Jaffa used to hear news about Palestinian villages falling into Jewish hands as well as massacres committed by the Jews. Global Voices in English » Palestine: Remembering Shafiq Al Hout
He had never left his village before so arriving in the capital, Manila, was a big culture shock.
He is infamous throughout the village for his bitter temperament and quickness to anger.
pave the roads in the village
Chiefs and headmen are important figures both in villages and nationally, although they are forbidden to be active in party politics.
The county council has taken all our views on board and promised it will do its best to accommodate the wishes of the village within reason.
The tranquil beauty of the village scenery is unique.
The category award winners ranged from a housing co-operative in Dundee to a children's play area in an Essex village.
Mr Ellis said he hoped to set up a patrol group to watch over the village streets.
Ranging from advice on digging a pond, the importance of the village bobby to controversial political and conservation issues.
A one-time fishing village, it has a beat-up, raffish looking downtown surrounded by new, big marinas.
They round up all the villagers and execute them one by one.
Two booze barons are shipping in illegal hooch to the village in the boots of their cars and selling it to youngsters at knock-down prices.
After the village gained experience with the grant-making process, community trust funds were established to provide credit to people who had no collateral to get bank loans.
The main characters are all glorified psychopaths, with little to choose between hero or villain in terms of basic humanity.
The villagers hated them, and spread malicious gossip about their immorality and irreligion. Times, Sunday Times
He was then received at court balls, in company with his wife, and Mme. Dionis was "enthroned" in the village because of her "ways of the throne. Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1
Her inquiries included evidence being laid before the judge at first instance of correspondence between herself and appropriate medical authorities in the prefecture that included Salonika and her village and areas.
There are other, smaller points of similarity; Emma's boredom with village life is parallelled in Cher's boredom with high school boys. Way Existential
We have ensconce ourselves in the most beautiful villa in the south of france.
She got us to make posters advertising our search and marched us up and down the village streets with our posters and sticky tape. Times, Sunday Times
The village lies to the east of the woods.
In others, village growers simply find it more remunerative to sell coca to drug dealers than to market pineapples at the local mercado.
The pubs and the village hall all have big car parks.
A celebrity, the Zu-Zu, the last coryphee whom Bertie had translated from a sphere of garret bread-and-cheese to a sphere of villa champagne and chicken (and who, of course, in proportion to the previous scarcity of her bread-and-cheese, grew immediately intolerant of any wine less than 90s the dozen), said the Cecil cared for nothing longer than a fortnight, unless it was his horse, Forest King. Under Two Flags
But perhaps it was there on the terrace of the Villa America, tossing back Bailey cocktails, that Hemingway acquired his taste for tart, unsugared drinks. He Was a Cocktail Artist
The village has escaped all modern developments, yet without becoming twee or 'preserved'.
Alagoas and Pernambuco states were hit by floods in June that wiped away towns and villages, killing 51. Rains Kill at Least 257 Across Brazil
Power socials are used to defeat villains (don't ask me why we're defeating villains, but we are…) or to improve your rep.
This form of spectatorship contrasts sharply with the interactive performances found in rural villages where most of these maskers normally appear.
It was all a far cry from the 1897 Irish Times article which described the course as ‘a rabbit warren below the village, where a golfer requires limitless patience and an inexhaustible supply of balls’.
At the end of a dusty trip to an outlying village of skeletons, I would have ravenous hunger. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
The story ended with Sam boarding a starship commanded by Sirians who may be able to aid in defeating the villain.
Villagers have poured in on either side of the debate over whether to allow the new eatery to open next to the existing Evergreen takeaway in Fawley.
One exception was the eccentrically named Lary 7, a 55-year-old photographer who has lived in the East Village since 1984. A Frame-by-Frame Show-and-Tell
Five main roads fan out from the village.
The village castle was the site of a legendary prince's court. Times, Sunday Times
In the ancient villages, where the lodges were crowded together, the railings were always present. Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
We need to see some real hard villains on our screens again. The Sun
Within the village itself, there are other attractions for those keen on immersing themselves in local history.
He was notoriously unfaithful, often falling prey to the charms of vampy female villains.
He will take on villains including robotic antibodies and creepy doll monsters, inset below. The Sun
During the monsoon season the villagers divert their occupation to fishing and agriculture.
A hush descended on the crowd as the village chief began to speak.
Villagers used to hold a great feast at harvest time.
Hundreds of ducks brought a splash of colour to an East Yorkshire village - and helped raise hundreds of pounds for the local pre-school.
The village was being pounded by volcano ejecta that have already flattened a house.
Several villages in the north have been isolated by heavy snowfalls.
The décor is East Village thrift-shop moderne.
With temperatures below zero and icy roads many people were unable to get into the village for supplies of candles, batteries for torches etc.
But best of all was the pool: where most villas boast pocket-handkerchief paddling pools, here was a pool in which to do solitary laps before breakfast, while staring out over miles of burnt-umber fields. Sleeping with the Finzi-Continis: Sicily's Madonie mountains
But then I've tried my best not to make her a panto villain. The Sun
About 4,000 villages have been burnt and razed to the ground in an attempt to depopulate the area.
The Bell, once the village pub, shut in 1988 and is now the The Bell House; alongside, only the name remains of what was the forge.
Sir Andrew describes the character as ‘one of the best villains in Victorian fiction’.
Unlike many of the villages we've passed, this one appears scrubbed.
The Village Association will pay for the three monthly intervals.
In the weaving village, building after building was filled with wooden looms used to make silk and lotus cloth. Times, Sunday Times
In this manner, under the dim-flickering light of an "oilie cruizie," in a straggling village in Perthshire, did I learn first of Blue Beard and Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk
Alongside, the Trust began an Integrated Community-Based Rehabilitation Project that involved setting up swasthya samitis in villages in coordination with local panchayats.
The final section of this exhibition is devoted to works executed by artists after they had left Rome and the Villa Medici.
'in times she be; but there's something about her I don't quite fancy; the plain fact is, she's rather _quair_, and I shall go up to the village. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
Congratulations to all the proud mothers, fathers, grannies and granddads who have been part of the recent baby boom in the village.
Here in Dubai the hotel is built like an exotic Arabian village, complete with a souk and outdoor cafes where you can sit and try a hubble-bubble pipe as you sip some very strong, sweet Turkish-style coffee.
This ancestry may also account for the difficulty of explaining the motives of Shakespeare's villains.
Bewildered by the suddenness of this blow, I could but watch in helpless silence the advancing throng, with my poor friends in their midst, their hands bound, their tottering footsteps directed by rude shoves towards the pipul tree, the accustomed assembly place of the villagers and the village council. Tales of Destiny
He also won the approval of the most respected man in the village. Times, Sunday Times
While a system of barracks relieved the villagers of having to lodge the dragoons in their houses, the obligation to transport provisions using their own animals at times when they were needed in the fields was burdensome.
Never mind me, I don't suppose the kids in the next field, nay the next village, got a wink of sleep all weekend.
What offends me violently is when a character is represented as a Good and Upright and Virtuous Hero, when almost his every act betrays him as a villain of the most heinous kind. Death carries a camcorder
She spoke the rude French of the fishing villages, where the language lives chiefly as a baragouin, mingled often with words and forms belonging to many other tongues. Chita: a Memory of Last Island
• Le Trianon, avenue des Bains, Parc des Thermes, Allevard, +33 4 7671 9617, letrianon-allevard.frAlsace surprises the visitor, not just with the strange Germanic dialect and its colourful half-timbered gingerbread houses clustered in tiny villages surrounded by rolling vine-clad hills, but also with some of the country's finest cuisine. Budget bourguignon: cheap eats in France
On arrival in a village he would ingratiate himself with the locals to find out if anyone owned a violin, or he might visit monasteries and other likely prospects, offering to repair their instruments.
He has brought a piece of Village Farm's belly pork and the head chef wants him to prepare and cook a signature menu for the restaurant.
The presence of the jumbos created terror among the villagers and they fled.
Iron Man/Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau gave us a little treat today … our first real glimpse of Mickey Rourke as the villanous Whiplash in Iron Man 2. Iron Man 2 – Whiplash Revealed! « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
Stanley was very tall and though a very sweet man, he had a deep, gravelly voice that often got him jobs on cartoon shows as dastardly villains.
Villa Kennan, with a pang of disappointment at such rebuff, forwent her overtures for the moment, and listened to what tale Jacob Henderson could tell of his dog. CHAPTER XXXIV
Village fairs were occasions for happiness and gaiety.
I am very happy to get a chance to compose songs in the Malayalam movie 'Plavilla Police'," a jubilant Ramatheerathan told PTI after the 'pooja' for recording of songs at a studio here. You Don't Know Me
We shall contest every river, every crossroads, every village, every town, and every kopje. Rainbow’s End
Previously, detainees have been hit or tortured during questioning, villagers say.
The village was guarded by a ragtag group of soldiers.

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