How to Use townsfolk in a Sentence

townsfolk

plural noun

• This isn’t good enough for a lot of the townsfolk, who are still angry over the tragedy.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
• And yet, who doesn't still tear up a little when the townsfolk arrive to save the day?
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
• Away from bright lights, tourists and townsfolk flock to the site in winter to catch a glimpse of the northern lights dancing in the sky.
  — Kate Springer, CNN, 8 Oct. 2017
• As the Akron Beacon Journal would note, the townsfolk snickered at the irony.
  — Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica, 25 Feb. 2023
• Neither the townsfolk nor the tourists lord it over the others or pity each other.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• Terrified, the townsfolk lasso him and send him back to the farm where he was born.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• Glen will seek out the townsfolk who offered to take him fishing.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2021
• Back in the downtown area, all the townsfolk are yelling their grievances at Wanda.
  — Abraham Riesman, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2021
• The viewer doesn’t fear that the boys will get beaten up by Italian townsfolk.
  — Esquire, 23 Feb. 2018
• Stop by to see the town smithy pump the mighty bellows, making utensils used by the local townsfolk.
  — Melanie Savage, courant.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• That’s more than can be said for the white townsfolk, who seethe and tremble from a careful distance.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 28 June 2018
• The model of a theater as a castle on the hill, where the townsfolk venture to get their culture, is long gone.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Carson, who has lived by the lake since 1965, got his title conferred to him by friends and townsfolk.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 June 2024
• Not far away, a group of townsfolk play a brutal game that involves throwing a stick at a bird tied to a block of wood.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
• Lenin fell off it, hurled to the ground by the townsfolk of Lanchkhuti in the first joyful paroxysm of their liberation.
  — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• The townsfolk are of the opinion that, excellent cop or not, Odette Tucker is still much too close to her old boyfriend.
  — Joyce Sáenz Harris, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2020
• After the feather was plucked from the princess' headdress last July, townsfolk wrote it off as a loss.
  — Bob Warren, NOLA.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• So Oakie the Person sat in front of the computer making Oakie the Character run around in-game and find all the townsfolk.
  — Isabelle Davis, Wired, 11 Feb. 2021
• The dread disease arrived in the summer of that year; before long, the townsfolk needed to add a new graveyard.
  — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
• The new scene will instead show pirates selling off the possessions of the townsfolk.
  — Hugo Martin, latimes.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• The Wolfwalkers are aswirl in color and motion; the townsfolk are flat and more cartoonish.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
• The three-day event is not held in new Valmeyer; instead, townsfolk wind their way down the hill to return to a park and baseball field on the old town’s site.
  — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 July 2021
• In the first film, Sarah also gives the sisters — who've just drained Emily Binx of her soul — away to approaching townsfolk.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2022
• Along with a predilection for gambling, which concerned townsfolk, the miners brought with them or made bread starters.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 31 Mar. 2017
• The townsfolk ask few questions and normal life resumes.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 15 Aug. 2023
• Sure, there are townsfolk, sheriffs, old cowboys and lots of action.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2020
• Once dulled, Iorek was taken advantage of by the townsfolk, who stole his armor.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 3 Nov. 2019
• Lucky has a fainting spell and when word gets around, the townsfolk express concern and sympathy.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• Get the Champagne on ice and gather the townsfolk because America hath slain the beast known as inflation.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 12 July 2024
• In one of Cooney’s illustrations toward the back of the book, Alice Rumphius is shown strolling along a cream-colored path, spreading lupine seeds and attracting the stares of townsfolk nearby.
  — Anna Holmes, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024