For instance, it is not uncommon to find that residents of this city differ as much as a million of people in their views of its population, their estimates ranging from nine hundred thousand to two million.
Older residents used their knowledge of the law to enforce their rule over the newcomers.
In the evenings there was dancing in the main ballroom, behind glass walls which separated residents from citizens and citizens from the elite.
Experienced residents sense when a temperature change is about to take place and get indoors.
A number of residents in the neighbourhood were taken on board for conveyance to the beleagured city.
The millionaire residents seem to think that the great altitude and dry atmosphere will prevent any ill effects of decaying debris.
The residents of the little town are full of indignation that the man should have attempted to kill an officer of this garrison.
All of these things, however, at the time were little cared for by the residents there, for the negro troop was removed and two white companies were sent in its place.
As old Mr. Haskelton had said, the old residents were flat on their backs.
It was the final struggle between the old residents and the new invaders, and it seemed that the latter must triumph.
He had never seen a negro insolent to one of the old residents except under the instigation of himself or someone else like him, and yet to him they were so insolent that at times even he could hardly tolerate it.
It was intended to show the negroes, the old residents said, that the Southerners were completely in subjection to the Federal authorities.
Mr. Haskelton, an old gentleman who had been a Union man always—one of the few old residents of the State in the body.
The Committee of Enquiry, which subsequently investigated the whole affair, considered that Gurdit Singh's action had been much influenced by advice and encouragement received from Indian residents in Canada.
Amalgamated Brotherhood, made himself obnoxious to the residentsof Number This, That Street?
Residents of large cities are requested not to keep the carriers waiting at the door, since, as will be readily understood, the delivery of so much coin to so many millions of people is not an easy task.
Redgrave and Waldron had arrived and fairly put down stakes, he should look upon themselves as residents in a settled district.
Life seemed capable of gayer aspects, even upon the Warroo, as next morning three residents of that far region rode lightly along the prairie trail.
Never before had a cabbage been grown at Gondaree, and the older residents looked with a kind of awe at Ah Sing as he watered his rows of succulent vegetables, toilsomely and regularly, in the long hot mornings and breezeless afternoons.
We, the residents of Atlanta, appeal to you for justice.
Many of these were doubtless residents of Richmond, and some it was said lived as far away as Norfolk.
After the first few months he was treated with respect by all the residents of his district.
Tobacco, as had been the case in Colonial Virginia, to residents of the District of Kentucky was the only practical export crop and means the settlers had of adding to their very scanty supply of cash.
One of the six male residents of Patmos hauls water in barrels, at fifty cents a barrel.
Joseph Grinnell (1900) writes of its habits in northern Alaska: Hoover's Warblers were numerous summer residents of the timber tracts throughout the Kowak Valley from the delta eastward.
These were doubtless, winter casuals, as the summer residents and transients pass through Oregon in October or earlier.
Departure dates for local summer residentsrange from July 15 to the 30th.
This fact is so familiar throughout the American States and the British Provinces, that there are few old residents of the interior of those districts who are not able to testify to its truth as a matter of personal observation.
Numerous facts are cited in support of the author's views, and I imagine there are few residents of rural districts whose own observation will not furnish testimony confirmatory of their soundness.
When we talked to some of the American residents in Japan, they all got on the old familiar subject, the high cost of living, but they seem to agree that it cost just twice as much to live in Japan as any other place in the world.
One of our party hired a rick-shaw for twenty minutes and paid a yen (about fifty cents), so residentsusually find it more economical to keep their own rick-shaws and coolies.
The appearance of two Europeans in a town where there were no European residents would at once attract a curious crowd, and detection must be inevitable.
Sometimes it is due to the oppression of the officials, sometimes to hatred of the foreigners, often to obscure causes which not even the older white residents in the country can understand.
People not residents and with no one to vouch for them cannot take books home.
It was a barren temple of the arts even to the residents of Dry Run, and Harriet and I, stealing across the prairie one Sunday morning to look in, came away vaguely depressed.
The residents on the hither bank joining company with my conductors, made a joyful party.
Although the British and German residentsdid not assimilate, Shafto saw a good deal of their mercantile element.
The health of the royal Marines, and all other residents at the settlement, continues to be very good, as will be seen from the report of the surgeon Dr.
When I joined my appointment as assistant on one of the large indigo concerns there, there were not more than about thirty European residents altogether in the district.
But night was coming on, and the sun was already sinking in the east with the rapidity to which the residentson Gallia were by this time well accustomed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "residents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
