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Example sentences for "towns"

Lexicographically close words:
townhouse; townland; townlands; townlet; townlets; townsfolk; township; townships; townsite; townsman
  1. Did security measures start later at the towns and cities?

  2. In the towns and cities, this disguise might put him at a disadvantage; but he had to meet one problem at a time.

  3. In the big towns we always went to the best hotel.

  4. Why, even on the Continent, in the big towns and the big hotels, we often travel incognito for safety.

  5. At one time there were few large towns without a mall, or prepared ground where the game could be played.

  6. Here on the links are space and freedom such as are afforded to people, especially those of towns and cities, rarely in present times.

  7. Perhaps this was the first golf club-house in America, and if that were so it shared the fate of pioneer establishments in many other places where towns have widened and gathered in the outlying lands.

  8. Our provincial towns won't believe that gold is gold unless it has been minted in London.

  9. If urban industrial conditions militate against an increase of lunacy, on the other hand it must be remembered that in most Irish towns there is an appalling amount of overcrowding.

  10. It is true that these dramas do deal only with peasants, but they are handled in the universal way that Ibsen used when he made the bourgeois of slow Norwegian towns representative of the human race everywhere.

  11. The old Scottish songs had no sacred historic character; they did not contain the history of the various towns and districts of Scotland.

  12. An objection is now taken to Nestor's geography: he is said not to know the towns and burns of his own country.

  13. The Macedonian troops proceeded to take Stageira and other towns of the Olynthian League, though Philip still professed to have no hostile intentions against Olynthus (see Phil.

  14. These proposals, if sanctioned, would obviously have reopened the question of Amphipolis, Pydna, and Poteidaea, as well as of Cardia and the Thracian towns taken by Philip in 346.

  15. You must rescue these towns [n] for the Olynthians, and send troops to accomplish this: and you must damage Philip's country with your ships and with a second body of troops.

  16. The First Olynthiac Oration was delivered before Olynthus itself was attacked or any other towns actually taken (Olynth.

  17. But if it is not, not only will our designs be opposed by the Arcadians, in the belief that the restoration of these towns carries with it their own ruin, but we shall have troubles without end.

  18. But early in 348 he appeared in person in Chalcidice, and took one after another of the towns of the League, including Mecyberna the port of Olynthus, and Torone.

  19. New towns were laid out in the valleys to supply the camps, and those already established grew with astonishing rapidity.

  20. African towns which he visited, in consequence of the people having no general medium of exchange, that his servants would often return from their purchasing expeditions in a state of the utmost exhaustion.

  21. Conjecture busied itself with an effort to find a solution for the mystery; for wildly, personal and audacious as journalism was in small western towns at that time, the effrontery of this stroke startled the community.

  22. Unlike many other cities and towns occupied by Federal troops, very few colored people were to be seen.

  23. There was scattered in the Parish towns on the west bank a respectable force of detached Federal troops on guard and provost duty.

  24. Colonel Burrell, with his officers and their friends, spent time and money, visiting various cities and towns endeavoring to have them join the Forty-Second.

  25. All the up-river towns sent lines of vehicles and fleets of boats to the capital.

  26. He loved it with the homesick longing of one who is born for towns and condemned to the fields.

  27. But many of them, especially in the neighborhood of towns or of Federal encampments, very naturally yielded to the temptation of testing and enjoying their freedom by walking away from the plantations to have a frolic.

  28. The towns of Sandbach and Congleton lie on the E.

  29. There are three deliveries by the carriers for the towns of Manchester and Salford, daily, at 8 30, a.

  30. The latter term seems generally attached to the names of towns where salt is made.

  31. The trade of the town is greatly facilitated by the extensive inland navigation in every direction, by which it is connected with the manufacturing districts and chief towns in the kingdom.

  32. They are visiting every day some one or other of the little storied towns of Fife.

  33. But John was not lured by any of the storied towns of the east coast.

  34. Several streets of some towns there have already disappeared, and the coast has lost on the average a belt of land thirty-two yards in breadth.

  35. Men in these crags a fastness find To fight corruption of the mind; The insanity of towns to stem With simpleness for stratagem.

  36. As an example of this, we may mention the Chilian earthquake of 1835, which was very violent, and destroyed several towns on that coast, from Copiapo to Chile.

  37. But though the cold was most intense, for the season really was too early for such a journey, our spirits were revived by the extreme picturesqueness of the old towns we passed through.

  38. From Falaise we went to Lisieux, which was then one of the most beautiful old towns in France, almost entirely of black and white timber houses.

  39. Above all you must inflict on the inhabitants of invaded towns the maximum of suffering, so that they may become sick of the struggle and may bring pressure to bear on their Government to discontinue it.

  40. In the towns or villages where they stop they begin by requisitioning food and drink, which they consume till intoxicated.

  41. Bombardment of the open towns of Louvain and Malines and the bombardment of Antwerp at night by airship without the twenty-four hours’ notice due in international law to the inhabitants of a fortified town.

  42. My conception of the matter is this: It is indubitable that there were villages before large towns were built, and that all men have been divided into petty commonwealths before they were united in great empires.

  43. Great towns contain rich patients; debauchery, excess at the tables, and the passions, cause their maladies.

  44. The Upper Lusatian language is spoken in a district which may be marked by the towns of Löbau, Bautzen, and Muskau, while the Lower Lusatians dwell round the towns of Spremberg and Kottbus.

  45. The limits of the district may be roughly marked by the towns of Leba, Lauenburg and Bütow or Bytom.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "towns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.