How to Use small-town in a Sentence

small-town

adjective

• Lisa is a bubbly small-town gal ready for big love.
  — Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
• Full of small-town charm and humor, this book is a sweet treat.
  — Laura Wood, People.com, 4 June 2025
• Alex is a small-town Ohio teacher who prefers a good book.
  — Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Jan. 2026
• There’s this almost utopian small-town feel to it.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 June 2026
• Yeah, a small-town kind of put-together.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
• This cake is rich with chocolate—and small-town mystery.
  — Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2025
• Texas’ coastline offers its own small-town charm, too.
  — Kat Stinson, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2026
• But a decades-old case of small-town beauty queen murders might cost them their lives.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
• What gets in the way of college for small-town and rural students?
  — Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
• The morning mist, the shade, and the small-town feel draw people in and won’t let go.
  — Christine Lennon, Architectural Digest, 11 Feb. 2026
• Not bad for a guy who made his name writing five-minute, gut-punch folk songs about small-town malaise.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 4 May 2026
• The show did capture the decline of small-town papers, though.
  — David Wysong, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
• That gets into the tropes the movie’s playing with — a small-town boy goes to the big city, right?
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 25 Dec. 2024
• What would a Zach Bryan small-town theatrical epic sound like?
  — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 16 July 2024
• Over the course of several weeks, the team immersed itself in small-town life.
  — Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• Cheyenne could be a great choice for retirees who want a small-town feel with easy access to big-city amenities.
  — Katie Seemann, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2024
• Davis has long maintained a slow-growth approach aimed at preserving its small-town feel.
  — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026
• With an extra day off in your pocket, why not trade the desert sun for cooler climes and quirky small-town vibes?
  — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• The ideal trip here marries the best of both small-town charm and windswept coastal beauty — here's how to do it.
  — Lila Harron Battis, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
• His mom, from small-town Mississippi, played blues and gospel records at home.
  — Steve Hochman, SPIN, 23 Jan. 2025
• Whether this small-town wrestling league can support new faces and new competitors is the focus now.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 28 July 2023
• Residents have mixed feelings about the growth, rising costs and loss of small-town charm.
  — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• Downtown Landrum has plenty of small-town charm.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2026
• Come experience the small-town charm.
  — Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
• Though Tucson is a big city, the fair still has the charm of a small-town get-together.
  — Shelby Slade, AZCentral.com, 10 July 2025
• Season 1 plays out sort of like a small-town mystery that just so happens to take place at the end of the world.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 14 June 2023
• The series is based on a small-town writer with a knack for solving real-life murders.
  — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 8 Oct. 2025
• To him, Tavernier is one of those places in the Keys that still has local, small-town charm.
  — Teaghan Skulszki, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
• As a small-town theater owner, Smith knew that a visit would be a pretty big deal.
  — The Vail Daily, Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2026
• The result is a getaway that balances small-town charm with cultural depth.
  — Madeline Weinfield, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025