Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for townswomen
Noun
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The unidentified American woman was stuck on Pitcairn, an island with only about 50 inhabitants, no airport and infrequent maritime options to depart.—
Matthew Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026 -
By 1830 a quarter of Ohio’s 1 million inhabitants clustered in the state’s southwestern corner.—
Matthew Smith,
The Conversation,
8 June 2026
Noun
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Ohio pays nursing homes a daily rate for Medicaid residents and provides additional payments to facilities that meet certain quality benchmarks.—
Brittany Miller,
FOXNews.com,
11 June 2026
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To Crowley and Dixit, their multispecies map is a natural extension of this worldview by identifying places meaningful to Penryn’s nonhuman residents and visitors.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
Noun
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All 12 occupants of a skydiving plane that crashed Sunday about 60 miles south of Kansas City died, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.—
Mariana Alfaro,
Washington Post,
14 June 2026
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Police said the occupants of the Toyota were taken to the hospital and had injuries that were not life-threatening.—
Jose Fabian,
CBS News,
14 June 2026
Noun
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Teens, tweens, and shoebox-sized apartment dwellers alike can welcome this upholstered bed frame into their space.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
12 June 2026
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That being said, many city dwellers don't have this option.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
10 June 2026
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
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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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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
Noun
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One of those new habitants, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced last week, was Lily Pond in Long Island.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
8 June 2026
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In Les habitants, Depardon outfits a camper-trailer with mics and cameras and hits the French highways, parking in various locations around the country and inviting a range of people—teenagers and the elderly, single people and couples, parents and children—inside simply to talk.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
20 Jan. 2026
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“Townswomen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/townswomen. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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