How to Use town in a Sentence

town

noun

• The nearest shopping mall is two towns away.
• We're heading to town later on.
• The town plans to increase property taxes.
• The flames roared right over the tree, rooted in the heart of town, at the ocean's edge.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 28 July 2024
• But the Magic City didn’t make the cut of the friendliest towns in the South.
  — Patrick McCreless, Miami Herald, 28 May 2024
• Still: The event drew a big crowd for a small, rural town.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
• The 23 acres being offered to the town are adjacent and to the west of the 52-acre parcel.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 12 Oct. 2022
• Last summer, my kids and I moved away from the city, into a big house in a small town.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
• With three towns on the list, Spain takes the honor of being the country with the most winners.
  — María Casbas, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Apr. 2024
• Whether on the water or around town, these are my go-to for just about anything.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
• Across town, Logan sits alone in a dark room, his face lit only by the evening news.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 26 Mar. 2023
• His wife, who was out of town, had asked a friend to check on him, police said Monday.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2023
• That small town included a school that Shy’Kemmia loved.
  — Kyani Reid, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2023
• The Rams feel less like an NFL team and more like a cult movie waiting to happen and, in this town, that’s a good thing.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• Where are all the chefs in this town and fresh ingredients?
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2022
• The resort town gets its name from the three lakes in the area and is home to Samjiyon Grand Monument.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 18 Aug. 2024
• It too is famed for its Venetian harbor and quaint old town.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 16 Jan. 2024
• Hitting the pavement for an hour-plus in any town or city can take its toll on your body.
  — Kelsey Borovinsky, wsj.com, 25 Sep. 2023
• Until about a year ago, Xue Xiong had never seen a town.
  — Zinara Rathnayake, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2024
• Small towns saw their numbers drop from a 29% slice of the home-buying pie last year to a more modest 23%.
  — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• But even in the deepest red towns, they’re mostly met with kindness and new friends.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
• There are too many stops and starts as Robel and Fahmi make their way across town.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
• April is a beautiful month on the shores of the Mediterranean, as blossoms scent the breeze and seaside towns stir to life.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
• Sharon Stone rides into a town called Redemption to avenge the death of her dad at the hands of an evil boss named Herod.
  — and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 21 June 2024
• Mary Gen’s father had the Williston town pool named after him, which Katie swam the first lap.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 27 July 2024
• The 25-year-old had grown up in a small town getting his sides shaved by his father, Bevan.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• The dysfunction in this town is very, very widely known.
  — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 May 2024
• Rely on it for dates and nights out on the town, and you won’t be disappointed.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
• Indeed, Buck was conveniently out of town at the time of the escape.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
• Others simply left the cities and spread out into smaller towns and farms.
  — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024