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Examples of hamlet in a Sentence
Paul Richardson, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Apr. 2024
Jolly was just one of thousands who picked this Hill County hamlet, an hour drive south of Fort Worth, to experience a total solar eclipse the likes of which North America won’t see for another generation.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Apr. 2024
Thirty-five miles to the southwest lies the Israeli hamlet of Shtula and its only remaining family — Ora Hatan, 60, and her two sons.
—William Booth, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
The trail, which connects 80 hamlets and villages that see few foreign visitors, was designed to bolster Sri Lanka’s tourism industry in the aftermath of the terrorist bombings that took place in the capital, Colombo, on Easter Day 2019.
—Erin Vivid Riley, Travel + Leisure, 1 Apr. 2024
Perched along the Delaware River, this hamlet of around 390 residents is one of the best small towns in New York and a hot spot for tubing, kayaking, and canoeing.
—Perri Ormont Blumberg, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2024
Green River, Utah The A and B Sections of the Green River, below the tiny hamlet of Dutch John, Utah, and the Flaming Gorge Dam, generate most of the press for this famous fishery.
—Tim Romano, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2024
His unit recently cut a new road through a stretch of hillside between a Palestinian hamlet and Har Bracha, effectively claiming the area for the settlement.
—Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
But nowhere was truly safe; one day, coalition warplanes struck the hamlet where Jihan and Mahmoud were sheltering, turning the village into an inferno.
—Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Noun (1)
Middle English, from Anglo-French hamelet, diminutive of ham village, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English hām village, home
Noun (1)
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
Noun (2)
1601, in the meaning defined above
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