Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for townees
Noun
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The villagers often had to move in the dark to avoid being detected.—
Pavlo Fedykovych,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026 -
Some villagers sat in the shade of towering fig trees, while others planted yams or dug the soil with tree branches.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
Noun
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Like the yeoman boys are out in the barn, half-naked, working out, buffing up and wearing animal heads and preparing for some kind of an inchoate battle with the burghers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Nov. 2025
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These works, painted by artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Ferdinand Bol, and Bartholomeus van der Helst, depict the powerful merchant-burghers who shaped the political and social fabric of Golden Age Amsterdam.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Next month, our country is celebrating its 250th birthday, the day the colonists said enough is enough to the king of England.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
16 June 2026
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But when human hubris introduces a linguistic plague on the creatures, the colonists must work to finally, truly understand the Indigenous population.—
Brianne Kane,
Scientific American,
12 June 2026
Noun
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Ten migrants survived the shipwreck, which occurred on June 12 in the Mediterranean Sea, off the eastern part of the North African nation, according to the Abreen group, which tracks movements of migrants in eastern Libya.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 June 2026
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His targets are mostly, but not exclusively, migrants.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
19 June 2026
Noun
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While some bars and coffee shops are seeing record days, others say locals are avoiding the area entirely.—
The Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
17 June 2026
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As the mitigation work continued, a contractor took off his socks and shoes and rolled up his pants to his knees and proceeded to wade into the pool to place an ozone nanobubble tube as tourists and locals milled about on a sunny morning.—
Katie Vogel,
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2026
Noun
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The film also uncovers documentation of how the white settlers, with the implicit accord of the Canadian government, murdered thousands of Nuxalk in 1862 with the smallpox virus and colonized the land.—
Carole Horst,
Variety,
17 June 2026
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While that name was chosen in 1946 by Ned Irish, the team’s founder and president, Knickerbocker is a Dutch surname that dates back to the early settlers of New Netherland.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
16 June 2026
Noun
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Banquet halls were where a parcel could get dropped off to reach the airport or where Armenian newcomers could learn about resources for government assistance.—
Ani Duzdabanyan,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
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He is joined by newcomers Leo Woodall as Halvard, Kate Winslet as Marigol, and returning franchise stars Ian McKellen as Gandalf, Elijah Wood as Frodo, and Lee Pace as Thranduil.—
Sharareh Drury,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 June 2026
Noun
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Almost half of all US nationals’ applications are directed there, and Portugal and Italy are their top two options.—
Jessica Puckett,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 June 2026
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Gregg Berhalter then took it to another level, recruiting more than a dozen dual nationals — including Dest, Tillman, Balogun and Turner — in his five years as coach.—
Kevin Baxter,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
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“Townees.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/townees. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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