How to Use hamlet in a Sentence

hamlet

noun
  • This mountain hamlet is one of the snowiest spots in Japan — and the world.
    Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The city is named after a tiny hamlet on the Isle of Mull in Scotland.
    Joe Yogerst, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • At the hamlet of Arakhpal, because of the dust, the palm trees have turned black and farming has ceased.
    Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023
  • But that’s not the only thing British in this upstate hamlet.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 11 Aug. 2022
  • After many years of searching for a place upstate, my wife and I chose to live in the same hamlet as Paul and Sarah.
    Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2023
  • In the film, Natalia, 30, moves from the big city to a rustic derelict house in a hamlet, La Escapa, buried in the countryside.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Ibiza, the party-loving wild child of the bunch, has a shy side too, by way of hillside hamlets and a storied old town.
    Jessica Benavides Canepa, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Thomas was born in the coastal hamlet of Pin Point, outside Savannah.
    Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 13 Apr. 2023
  • But no one in the dusty hamlet in northern Shaanxi province has heard of Teacher Bai or even remembers the school.
    Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2023
  • In the hamlet of San Pedro, rising out of a scrim of cornfields and dirt streets, old mud huts give way to showy concrete block houses.
    Soudi Jiménez, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
  • Just across Great Slave Lake, an entire hamlet was destroyed in hours, and a second fire spread over 30 miles in a single day.
    David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Gangtey, further on, was even more rural than Punakha; a marshy hamlet dotted with the nests of migrating black cranes.
    Brandon Presser, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2023
  • But some residents still call the tiny hamlet in Garfield Ridge by its early name: Sleepy Hollow.
    William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2022
  • In it, a group of teens in a hamlet sheltering the last survivors of humanity see their lives change with the presence of a Creature.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Roger Derry, 80, and his son have lived together in the tiny scenic hamlet of Klamath River for more than 40 years.
    Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2022
  • This year, that destination is the quaint hamlet of Mistletoe Lake.
    al, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Taking the winding drive up to the hillside hamlet of Jerome is an essential Arizona road trip.
    Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The ranch is located on Highway 237 just outside the tiny town of Round Top, and even closer to the hamlet's many purveyors of antiques.
    Katharine Jose, Chron, 2 Apr. 2023
  • In one tiny hamlet seen by the AP, all 20 houses were flattened, and residents were still taking refuge in nearby forests.
    Ebrahim Noroozi, ajc, 24 June 2022
  • The hamlet, which was a ruin just a couple of decades ago, has been fully restored and its houses sold to new occupants.
    Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • The hotel occupies a 250-acre stretch in Amenia, New York, a hamlet near the border with Connecticut.
    Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2022
  • Use the hamlet of Strawberry as a base camp for Rim Country adventures.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • This hamlet tucked into the hillsides didn’t seem especially impressed to have an NFL team in town.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 30 July 2023
  • With its narrow streets and medieval houses at the foot of the castle, this hamlet is one of Italy’s most beautiful medieval villages.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 15 May 2022
  • The fire broke out late last week in the hamlet of Mexicaltongo, in the township of Jilotepec, not far from a major refinery.
    Fox News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The festival hoards stayed away from this tiny ski hamlet at the base of the Wasatch Mountains for two years due to justifiable fears of a superspreader event.
    Vulture, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Delray Beach, a once-sleepy hamlet 50 miles north of Miami close to Boca Raton, has seen some serious sales in the last three years.
    David Kaufman, Robb Report, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Hers was one of many other lives that have been shattered by police officer crashes in hamlets and cities across the country.
    USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024
  • As living conditions in the town grew tougher, local families fled the hamlet in search of a brighter future elsewhere.
    Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 9 May 2023
  • On a clear day, the tiny hamlet of La Vega, stacked up high on the hillsides of northern Tenerife, offers spectacular views of the rugged Atlantic coast.
    Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Nov. 2022

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