How to Use town meeting in a Sentence

town meeting

noun

• Cheryl sends them all away, which brings us to the town meeting.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• Gibb and Zerb hope to turn in enough petitions to force a town meeting.
  — Don Stacom, courant.com, 8 Feb. 2022
• Someone volunteers to drive the team to an out-of-town meeting.
  — Washington Post, 22 July 2021
• The council will vote on the budget following the town meeting.
  — Steven Goode, Courant Community, 13 Apr. 2018
• The Windham Town Hall will feature a town meeting from 200 years ago and building tours.
  — Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2022
• The spending plan will then go to town meeting for final approval on May 21.
  — Janice Steinhagen, Courant Community, 24 Apr. 2018
• There were no signs that the Croydon town meeting in March would be unusual.
  — Peter Greene, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• Three or four rallies and town meetings and meeting with groups of people.
  — NBC News, 10 Oct. 2019
• Gothard will speak at a virtual town meeting Aug. 6, about the district’s plans.
  — Erin Adler, Star Tribune, 30 July 2020
• Those town meetings sometimes took from 7 in the morning until 10 at night.
  — Diana Bruk, Country Living, 24 Oct. 2016
• Duxbury town manager Rene Read told the Globe the group has been invited to speak at the next town meeting on Monday.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Mar. 2021
• The painting shows a New England town meeting, where a man stands to speak as the audience turns toward him.
  — Adam Kirsch, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
• Format: The debate will take the form of a town meeting, in which the questions will be posed by citizens from the South Florida area.
  — USA Today, 29 Sep. 2020
• The town is planning to hold its annual town meeting outdoors this year.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 11 May 2021
• First cross-town meeting of these Metro Conference members in 19 years.
  — and Staff Reports, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2022
• But once town residents learned in 2018 that the new owners were Hasidic, town meetings were called and things came to a grinding halt, the lawsuit charges.
  — Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2019
• Butler, the selectman, recalled that Karun almost always showed up to the town meetings that take place twice a month.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 14 June 2019
• Richard Pannell told a Houston town meeting over flooding last year.
  — Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2017
• In the San Antonio city clerk’s archives, rows of heavy books contain the official town meeting minutes from the 1800s.
  — John Tedesco, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Dec. 2017
• The project faced intense pushback, with many people protesting at town meetings.
  — Lorraine Longhi, azcentral, 20 May 2020
• The public hearing prior to the board’s decision drew more people than could fit into the town meeting room.
  — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 8 July 2019
• In New Hampshire, as much as 14 inches of snow is forecast, and the storm is wreaking havoc with the age-old town meeting tradition.
  — Alanna Durkin Richer, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• If accepted by the board, any required funding would then need to be voted on during a town meeting.
  — Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
• In New Hampshire, where as much as 14 inches of snow is forecast, the storm is wreaking havoc with the age-old town meeting tradition.
  — CBS News, 13 Mar. 2018
• At this point, the town is on high alert: Shops are closing early, people are adding deadbolts to their doors, and the mayor is calling a town meeting to put people at ease.
  — Samantha Highfill, PEOPLE.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• Edgewood incorporated in 1920, holding its first town meeting in the garage of the first mayor.
  — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• The selectmen will likely set the special town meeting date at the March 13 regular meeting.
  — Janice Steinhagen, Courant Community, 7 Mar. 2018
• There's something to be said for that, but the worry was that his life would devolve into political town meetings.
  — Mary Kaye Schilling, Town & Country, 26 June 2014
• With the lights up, a town meeting shifts gears into a trial of sorts — one in which Thomas, who had sought to protect his fellow man, must defend himself, and does not know how, if the truth is not enough.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
• The town of Matthews in early March ended the public’s ability to comment at meetings via Zoom in response to a group of people who made hateful and antisemitic comments during a town meeting.
  — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024