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Example sentences for "large town"

  • It is a large town, and of very honourable people, and of much trade in merchandise, and a place of great fisheries: they catch large fish there, which they export dried and salted to other parts.

  • Baharem has a large town of many Moors, important and honourable personages.

  • Within this hollow stood a large town; we may form some idea of its appearance by pouring the white of an egg into a glass of water.

  • Several small and wretched villages, half under water, and a large town at the foot of a mountain, which looked ready to overwhelm it, the name of which the travellers could not learn, were passed in succession.

  • And yet there was something indescribably imposing in the sight of a large town rising up in the midst of the sandy desert, and the beholder cannot but admire the indomitable energy of its founders.

  • It is two parasangs hence to Beaucaire, a large town, containing about four hundred Jews, and a great university under the presidency of the great rabbi, R.

  • Florence is a large town, where the commonalty govern.

  • Here the travellers performed their devotions, and then they proceeded to a large town on the farthest borders of Samaria, where they reposed that night.

  • I passed the night on the further side of it, at a village within four leagues of Nicomedia, which is a large town, with a harbour for shipping.

  • London is a large town," I said, "all houses, houses.

  • For a man it is much better to be a "pandur" (policeman), especially in a large town.

  • The advice was felt to be good by them all, but as Catalina had no money the good Senora again came to the rescue, and gave her enough to buy a horse and to take her to a large town, where she might find something to do.

  • It is only about Maruchak that the valley widens out sufficiently to admit of a large town.

  • Ghazni was then a large town "surrounded by mud walls and a ditch.

  • It is surprising how soon an accustomed eye will distinguish a stranger in the streets of a large town.

  • It is, moreover, impossible, in a large town, to know of every arrival.

  • Miaunéh, where we passed the night, was once a large town, and its broken walls and gates are still to be seen.

  • Zengan is a large town, and is the capital of the Mahalé of Hamzé, which contains one hundred villages.

  • About seven miles from our encampment, we passed again through the village of Derees, which, from the extent of the ruined houses, must once have been a large town.

  • Shebester is a large town, surrounded by several villages, and by more wood and cultivation, than any spot I had yet seen in Persia.

  • They have built a large town, which they have called Understone, or, in their own language, Abeokuta, in memory of the cave under which they first took shelter.

  • At the mouth is Lagos, a large town, held by an independent chief or king of considerable wealth and power.

  • Suddenly they found themselves with the junks ahead in the centre of a large town with a vast population.

  • They held their course along the coast for fifteen days, always laying to at night, when they came to a large town with a bay, which they believed to be a river in which they might find water, of which they were now in great need.

  • After fifteen days sailing with great caution along an unknown coast, we got sight of a large town near an inlet or creek, which had the appearance of being the mouth of a river.

  • The rain off the bushes came literally upon our poor bodies in sluices; but this was considerably preferable to the risk of going into the village, where we suspected that gendarmes might be lurking, the place being so near a large town.

  • The inhabitant of a large town, even the richest, who is surrounded by the greatest luxury, is continually exposed to unfavourable influences which diminish his vital powers far more than what is inevitable.

  • The effect of a large town on the human organism offers the closest analogy to that of the Maremma, and its population falls victim to the same fatality of degeneracy and destruction as the victims of malaria.

  • The town is large, though you do not feel as if you were walking in a large town.

  • Three very slender spires, one of which we know to be the Hotel de Ville, denote, together with the Cathedral tower, the neighbourhood of a large town.

  • Taganama, half a day; large town, and residence of a sultan.

  • Gorji, one day, on the Niger; a large town.

  • From Kuka, south, to Manguno, nine hours; a large town.

  • With the proceeds of the sales Te Paheka would come into the nearest large town, and have a right royal time while funds lasted.

  • Early in the afternoon the flotilla approached a large town.

  • A large town of mushroom growth, it had been one of the places inseparably associated with New Zealand's part in the Great War.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "large town" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    full colors; large band; large blocks; large bunch; large cloak; large crown; large dimensions; large element; large flat; large handful; large herd; large majority; large piece; large portion; large quantity; large rock; large scale; large ship; large spoon; large square; large tree; large yellow; larger number; other occasions; printing press; silent prayer