How to Use market town in a Sentence

market town

noun

• The center of Chipping Norton, a market town on the edge of the north Cotswolds.
  — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
• Ford, who is in her early fifties, is from Nantwich, a market town in Cheshire.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• Small-market towns have to come up with something else.
  — J. Michael, Indianapolis Star, 15 July 2019
• The entrance to the market town of Tring is guarded by a 16th-century pub called the Robin Hood.
  — Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2018
• The market town in County Mayo, on the western fringes of Ireland, is where Rooney was born in 1991.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2021
• Still very much a working market town, Mahón felt drowsy.
  — Raphael Kadushin, WSJ, 25 July 2017
• In the west of Ireland lies a medieval market town, its roots steeped in legend.
  — Kara Fox, CNN, 23 Jan. 2022
• We were headed for Black Spire Outpost, the rugged market town.
  — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• The building stands in the small market town of Eye, which is in the county of Suffolk, about 100 miles east of central London.
  — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
• Northallerton is a bustling and thriving market town in North Yorkshire.
  — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
• It’s had all the heritage of being a market town, a mining town, a power-station town.
  — Sarah O'Connor, Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2022
• The rising lake is now just ten miles away from the old market town of Aralsk, where the walls of an empty harbor have been dry for decades.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 June 2018
• It is located in northwest England near the market town of Keswick.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 12 Apr. 2023
• This colonial market town in the state of Morelos was hit hard by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake.
  — WSJ, 21 Sep. 2017
• Leominster, in the West Midlands area of England, is an ancient market town where the past and the present are jumbled together like coins in a change purse.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• The seat, a former mining community with a mixture of market towns and well-off suburbs on the edge of Teesside, had been Labour since 1935.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Many retailers in this old market town have long held Amazon.
  — WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
• In 1194, Portsmouth was formally chartered as a market town.
  — New York Times, 24 June 2021
• She was sentenced to eighteen months in the women’s prison at Hoheneck, a grim red brick fortress on a hill above a Saxon market town.
  — Hari Kunzru, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
• Swaths of Rubkona, a market town next to Unity State's capital Bentiu, have been abandoned.
  — Brent Swails, CNN, 6 Dec. 2021
• Living in a small market town in England in the early ’90s, our family were the only people of color on the playground, at work, and in the shopping mall.
  — David Jesudason, Wired, 14 June 2021
• In an early sign of protest to the Taliban's rule, dozens gathered in Jalalabad and a nearby market town to raise the tricolor national flag.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 19 Aug. 2021
• Conal Gallagher grew up in Carrickmacross, a sleepy market town in County Monaghan.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2023
• London to Manchester, down to the seaside at Brighton, up north once more — to the unremarkable market town of Leigh — then back to the south coast, before retracing her steps back to Leigh.
  — New York Times, 25 July 2022
• Until that case was found, the outbreak had been concentrated in remote villages near Bikoro, a market town on the shores of Lake Tumba.
  — Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 18 May 2018
• As an extension of Dorchester, an ancient market town that dates back to Roman times, Poundbury does not have its own train station.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2022
• Far from being an urban ghetto, Staines is a suburban market town near Heathrow Airport, best known over the years for its linoleum factory.
  — Ken Jennings, CNT, 9 Oct. 2017
• Some of my idiocy was knocked from me by a constant procession of small shocks about the way the world outside my rural market town actually worked.
  — Donal Ryan, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
• Leeds, which rose to prominence in the Middle Ages as a market town, has more recently become a center of modern retail in northern England.
  — WSJ, 25 Dec. 2021
• Late on the evening of the even, several sources in the historic market town of Windsor, where the venue sits, posted photos and videos of fireworks going off in the distance—supposedly at the reception hall.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 1 June 2018

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024