How to Use townie in a Sentence

townie

noun

• The one-time fishermen’s fave — a hole in the wall — now draws townies and tourists.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• Then Goodell walked the townie outside the bar, down the street and the incident was over.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2020
• The townies have a name for these intruders: Red Bull Zombies.
  — Russell Frank, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2017
• And so begins the annual clash of townies versus tourists.
  — Maddie Mortell, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
• For longtime Franklin fans and new townies alike, something else is happening: pride is pouring over.
  — Elizabeth Depompei, Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2020
• The townies get understandably sick of the leering hordes; some are resigned to the glut and the spectacle, while others are less forgiving.
  — Chris Vognar, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
• For years, townies whispered about alleged weapons stashes in the steam tunnels beneath the academy.
  — Emma Green, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2019
• All of the standard tropes are set up—the weird old townie who tries to warn the kids off, a creepy old basement filled with bizarre and ominous paraphernalia, etc.—though maybe they’re set up just a little too perfectly.
  — Jennifer M. Wood, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
• There was some casual cruelty going on, first toward a townie, and then that victim was exchanged for one of the Jewish boys.
  — Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2013
• Friendly tourists and townies can’t resist treating her like a celebrity while running their fingers through her unruly brown fur.
  — Nick Agro, Orange County Register, 24 May 2017
• The brick-and-steel tasting room offers comfy church pews for sipping spirits and watching the Salida traffic on summer days, when the garage bay doors are raised and the townie cruiser bikes are stacked deep out front.
  — Amy Brothers, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2017
• Here, in no particular order, are 15 towns across the country with enough offerings to keep even townies and travelers happy.
  — Calder Quinn, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Sep. 2017
• One sister got engaged to a Catholic man who attended Mass at Immaculate Conception, the townie church.
  — Emma Green, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2019
• Mills stood at the pulpit and described her transition from Yale-resenting townie to union organizer.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• While Darkness on the Edge of Town is darker, edgier, and townie-er than its predecessor, the songs reveal Springsteen’s unshakable fascination with the world after dark.
  — Kenneth Partridge, Billboard, 2 June 2018
• With a target for house-building imposed on the council by the government, villagers and townies end up pitted against each other, trying to shove development elsewhere.
  — The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
• His impulsive, irrational behavior is also troubling, evidenced in the scene where Lloyd whips out a shotgun on teen townies planning to egg his home mere days after spray-painting the film’s title on it.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 29 Mar. 2023
• Some older local Twitter users might actually be townies, but the majority of local Twitter— particularly the part that has the power to make local tweets go viral— is made up of teens.
  — Taylor Lorenz, The Atlantic, 3 July 2018
• The memoir is a delightful, deft, familiar — and ambitious — foray into family dynamics and working-class gusto, a relatable story of the townies in a city overrun by, and dependent upon, tourists.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
• Given the narrative of upward mobility that frames so many media reports and popular depictions of Asian Americans, a scuzzy townie like Nora is already a step toward greater, more inclusive, not to mention more candid, representation.
  — Inkoo Kang, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 6 Oct 2024