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Example sentences for "our town"

  • Exactly three months after Sofya Ivanovna’s death the general’s widow suddenly appeared in our town, and went straight to Fyodor Pavlovitch’s house.

  • Fyodor Pavlovitch, by the way, had for some time previously not been living in our town.

  • They had been staying a week in our town, where they had come more for purposes of business than devotion, but had visited Father Zossima once already, three days before.

  • It happened on one occasion that a new governor of the province, making a tour of inspection in our town, saw Lizaveta, and was wounded in his tenderest susceptibilities.

  • In fact, every one seemed to like her; even the boys did not tease her, and the boys of our town, especially the schoolboys, are a mischievous set.

  • Just to look at her made you certain that she was not of our town.

  • Now, that doesn't imply that the women of our town do not dress well, because they do.

  • We knew the captain well; he was, in a way, one of the notable persons of our town.

  • In truth Benbow was the son of an honest tanner of our town, and took no shame of his origin: his greatness was above such pettiness of spirit.

  • Besides, the highest part of our town commands a view of forty miles of sea, and we have placed a man there who will fire a musket if a strange sail appears.

  • And, in particular, I heard him once myself affirm, that Christianity and the customs of our town of Vanity, were diametrically opposite, and could not be reconciled.

  • His name is Talkative; he dwelleth in our town; I wonder that you should be a stranger to him, only I consider that our town is large.

  • I had thought, dear friend, to have had your company quite from our town; but you did get the start of me, wherefore I was forced to come thus much of the way alone.

  • Here we would bandy stories (often of our own inventing) or discuss things, the leading topic of conversation being the soldiers of the two regiments that were stationed in our town.

  • On the other hand, she would not hear of sending me to the free cheder of our town, because of its reputation for poor instruction.

  • And he had the reputation in our town of being a fine, young man, a modern, and a scholar.

  • In our town, Mazapevka, it was not easy to get into the best society.

  • It was a cold, wet May, such as we sometimes had in our town, Mazapevka.

  • There was such a man in our town, Kassrillevka.

  • No foreign and impecunious princes penetrate as far inland as our town.

  • But the available supply of stage size bell-boys in our town is somewhat limited and was soon exhausted.

  • He tried to keep step in a set of young folks whose fathers had made our town.

  • Jo Haley is the most eligible bachelor in our town, and the slipperiest.

  • He had the first yellow plush hat in our town.

  • Last May, a whippoorwill was bewildered in a sudden gale, and did not get back to the woods, but spent the day sound asleep in broad sunlight on the railing of a balcony, right in the midst of our town.

  • A High School pupil (one of the many boys who walk three or four miles in to our Town, in all weathers, to get their schooling) brought in some Mountain Ash berries to the botanical class.

  • The majority of their town poor are growing up with tastes which render them unfit to endure such degradation as the filth and misery of our town pauperism.

  • Our town is full of empty shops, and, after all, the landlord himself is now being ruined!

  • Constance remembered all about this family history, for it was the romance of our town.

  • I have always regarded her as the flower of our town.

  • His name is Talkative; he dwelleth in our town.

  • And in particular, I heard him once myself affirm that Christianity and the customs of our town of Vanity were opposite, and could not be reconciled.

  • So I asked her further of the truth of these things, and if she would let me go with her; for I saw now that there was no dwelling but with the danger of ruin any longer in our town.

  • The display was to be of the Middle's razor, which I sold exclusively in our town, and which I thought was the best of all the dollar razors.

  • Jim Simpson, right here in our town, wanting to sell out, and me wanting to buy a store, and neither of us knowing it!

  • Think of it, a hundred and fifty-nine razors in our town.

  • But they was others in our town said it didn't prove nothing at all.

  • Old Mis' Primrose, in our town, she always believed in 'em firm till her husband died.

  • They was both kind o' mad at the hull world, and at our town in pertic'ler, and some at each other, too.

  • They didn't have em every day in our town, and we hadn't never had one of our own.

  • The way he done about that hurt Brother Cartwright in our town, and they was a split in the church, because some said it wasn't reg'lar and wasn't binding.

  • But we have outlived our old affectation of indifference to our town, I am not sure that we are not pushing our profession of pride in it too far to the other extreme.

  • It was for the belated Boswell, not for us, to follow step by step the walks abroad of Penn, or Franklin, or any of our town's great men.

  • In our room were confined all the prisoners from the battalion who were to receive the spitzruten [rods], as well as those from the military establishment in our town and in the district surrounding it.

  • He came in with a stern and majestic air, followed by a crowd of Generals and Colonels doing service in our town.

  • He settled in Siberia, establishing himself in our town, where a little after that they gave him a place.

  • A goldsmith by trade, he received more orders than he could execute, for there was no jeweller's shop in our town.

  • Some of his old sins had found him out, it seems; things done when he had been superintendent of police in our town.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our 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:
    foie gras; our arrival; our business; our country; our days; our era; our fathers; our feet; our friend; our horses; our host; our journey; our language; our line; our nature; our party; our people; our present; our readers; our rear; our said lord the; our soldiers; our town; our visit; small apple; your right