Examples of villager in a Sentence
the villagers have a reputation for being polite and helpful to the tourists
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Through it all, the Captain, who is the son of a French priest and a Vietnamese villager, grapples with his conflicting convictions, identities and sympathies.
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Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 15 Apr. 2024
The Captain is a walking paradox, the son of a Vietnamese villager mother and a French priest father.
—Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
The villagers in the study worked in a wide range of professions: shopkeepers, farmers, craftspeople and weavers, for example.
—Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
One of the villagers who had lent him money demanded his 8-year-old daughter in exchange for part of the loan.
—Lynsey Addario Victoria Kim, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
One soldier said rations for his battalion ran so low that troops disguised themselves as civilians to buy food from villagers.
—Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
Rather than framing Kid’s community as an oppressed caste, religion, or tribe, the only visible culturally specific moment involves the villagers enjoying a marionette re-telling of the Ramayana, which is interrupted by incendiary violence.
—Siddhant Adlakha, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
Suddenly everyone looks like European villagers and everything becomes a real monster movie.
—EW.com, 5 Apr. 2024
Over the course of the 20th century, the Mulanje Mountains became the top source of firewood for cooking for almost half a million villagers surrounding the reserve, aided and abetted by what is widely described as a corrupt Malawian forestry department.
—Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 15 Apr. 2024
The Captain is a walking paradox, the son of a Vietnamese villager mother and a French priest father.
—Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
The villagers in the study worked in a wide range of professions: shopkeepers, farmers, craftspeople and weavers, for example.
—Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
One of the villagers who had lent him money demanded his 8-year-old daughter in exchange for part of the loan.
—Lynsey Addario Victoria Kim, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
One soldier said rations for his battalion ran so low that troops disguised themselves as civilians to buy food from villagers.
—Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
Rather than framing Kid’s community as an oppressed caste, religion, or tribe, the only visible culturally specific moment involves the villagers enjoying a marionette re-telling of the Ramayana, which is interrupted by incendiary violence.
—Siddhant Adlakha, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
Suddenly everyone looks like European villagers and everything becomes a real monster movie.
—EW.com, 5 Apr. 2024
Over the course of the 20th century, the Mulanje Mountains became the top source of firewood for cooking for almost half a million villagers surrounding the reserve, aided and abetted by what is widely described as a corrupt Malawian forestry department.
—Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
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“Villager.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/villager. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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villager
noun
vil·lag·er
ˈvil-ij-ər 
: a person living in a village
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