the town

noun

: the government of a town

The town plans to increase property taxes.

Examples of the town in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The troops spent 12 days on trial at a military court in the town of Walikale, in Congo's eastern North Kivu province, according to Radio Okapi, along with four others who were acquitted and one who was given a 10-year jail sentence. — CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026

Storms last weekend dumped the equivalent of more than two years of water into the town's surface water supply and provided a buffer for an operation that depends heavily on underground aquifers, Huntzinger said. — Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2026

Theater troupes passed through, and the local cinema promised a world beyond the town. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Nov. 2026

The building didn’t just fall into disrepair but was legally condemned by the town of Branford due to fire safety and other code violations. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 8 Nov. 2026

Rhymes for the town

• adown
• blowdown
• breakdown
• countdown
• crackdown
• crosstown
• downtown
• drawdown
• dropdown
• facedown
• godown
• hometown