How to Use villager in a Sentence

villager

noun

• In the 13th century, villagers would gift eggs to the lords of the manor or to the church.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 5 Feb. 2024
• The nickname is a simple but poignant joke on the part of the villagers.
  — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• Her dream: to rally the villagers to build a new school.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2023
• High above the road, at the top of the cliffs, dozens of villagers had gathered from Jaba and a-Ram.
  — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
• The villagers keep half the produce; the rest goes to Mil, Martínez’s small restaurant here, and Central.
  — Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
• The villagers seem to have felt that this area was theirs, and other areas were not.
  — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
• Later, with the church locked and the priest abed, the villagers and visitors danced on the midnight beach to the sound of the shepherds' pipes.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2023
• Officials said some villagers might have been forced by the crime group to take part.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 11 July 2023
• So with the help of Church and Trench, who show up just in time, the Expendables free the villagers and take on Vilain’s army.
  — Richard Newby, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2023
• The villager got out of his Toyota and came over to film the conversation, too.
  — Alexander Sammon, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2022
• The trees are sacred to the Bishnoi people, and a villager led a protest by wrapping her arms around a trunk.
  — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• Both male and female villagers insist that the family drop the charges against the three young men, one of whom is the girl’s cousin.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• As the fiddler plays, Tevye removes the red jacket to reveal the clothing of a villager.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 20 Oct. 2022
• The villager spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals by the government.
  — Time, 18 June 2021
• In 2019, one was accused of fatally shooting a villager in the back.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2021
• One looks like a villager who came straight from a Bavarian rave and is still tripping hard.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020
• The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they’re told by the scientists.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
• Few villagers work in the industry, in part because the job only lasts for a short season.
  — WIRED, 15 July 2023
• The Palestinian farmers and villagers are struggling to hold on to their lands and livelihoods.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
• One villager puts it this way: leaving home to go far away is just a fact of life, there’s no other choice for survival.
  — Selina Wang, CNN, 27 Jan. 2023
• And video shot by a Karen villager and published by Reuters showed refugees boarding boats under the watch of Thai soldiers.
  — Kocha Olarn and Helen Regan, CNN, 30 Mar. 2021
• The villagers had gathered in the night when an aircraft from the Nigerian army began to hover above.
  — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• Then a villager died -- and the police took their claims seriously.
  — Jenni Marsh, CNN, 15 Aug. 2020
• Like some medieval villager, the sky seems full of portents, danger, hope and symbols.
  — Peter Pomerantsev, Time, 4 Oct. 2022
• To the villagers’ surprise, the old man and the village survived utterly unscathed.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
• A number of villagers died in cramped and filthy conditions with little food.
  — WIRED, 15 July 2023
• The villagers even had put banners at the boundary of their villages and denied entry to any outsider.
  — Hridayesh Joshi, Quartz India, 8 May 2020
• The villagers in Tiniskt — used to relying on each other — weren’t waiting around.
  — Sima Diab, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2023
• On the ground, villagers say accountability is hard to come by.
  — Rachel Chason and Chloe Sharrock, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2023
• Pretend to move to a remote island to fish and farm with your animal villager friends?
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 7 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 3 May 2024