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
• This quaint market town in the sprawling lowlands of eastern England should be a rural, right-wing heartland.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 6 July 2024
• 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
• The riverside market town, Totnes, has become a byword for an outdoorsy, artistic community—catnip to the tourists who bunch around the estate agent windows.
  — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024