Townspeople used in a sentence

Townspeople in a sentence as a noun

So do the townspeople collectively own the entire town? including each other's lots?

Plenty of upside to the townspeople with no downside. As conspiracies go, the formation of this one is fairly predictable.

The vampire turned a bunch of your fellow townspeople into vampires; saying the bite is no longer so bad doesn't mean that the vampire is now to be respected. It's also not about punishing Microsoft.

- The Town taught them diversity and how to interact with many different kinds of people, including bartenders, sherrifs, outlaws, townspeople, and other cowboys. - Justice, and honor are central.

You need to stop focusing on the townspeople, the parents and the family, and start focusing on the thing you can change - your circumstance-strategy and your goals. Here are a few things to consider, and some hard questions: #5 - Why are you drowning in guilt, what have you done to feel guilty about?

It's got this perfect little 10x10 street grid, because the townspeople wanted to be prepared for when it became a bustling metropolis. I think some people see development as a source of pride, and others are more whimsical and see it as losing the character of the community.

There are also many many instances in the history of Medieval Europe of townspeople rising to fight a power that is perceived as a foreign occupier. Most of these regions would have been easily recognized by the people of the time as important political entities.

Where will the townspeople do their shopping now? I know it isn't a perfect analogy, but I think it is accurate enough to get the point across: if you come out with a free service and end up displacing everyone else in the market, then you have an ethical responsibility to at least try to continue the service in some shape or form.

I would expect smaller towns to tend to emphasize one sport over all others, to the point that the townspeople in large part will live and breath that sport in a way that people in larger communities with more diverse sports options would not.

I remember reading in the Guardian when the tsunami happened about a coastal town wit a shrine up a hill and a story the townspeople told about going not to the hill over there during the tsunami of 1000 years ago, but to the less obvious vantage point where the shrine was. Turns out this 1000 year old oral record saved a lot of lives, 2 tsunamis a millennium apart and an unchanging landscape.

While there are enough unhappy people to quote in an article, there's no evidence a majority of the townspeople object, either as a superficial gut reaction, or after deliberate consideration of all costs and benefits. For the duration of the current officeholders' terms, decisions about such use of public space have been delegated to them.

If you cry wolf for every neighbor's puppy the townspeople soon stop responding. And then you make enemies out of the communities you're unnecessarily harassing, which leads to "**** the Police" culture where people won't even report obvious and serious threats because they don't want to attract a bunch of unthinking jackboots who might just as soon arrest victims and bystanders as the perpetrators.

"In 2006, a straight family in Kansas had to defend flying a rainbow flag at their bed and breakfast from some angry townspeople... Understanding the wider symbolism, the owners nevertheless chose to fly the flag because their young son said it reminded him of the movie The Wizard of Oz, evoking the movie's signature song, Over the Rainbow."

Quote Examples using Townspeople

Upon seeing the townspeople toiling at meaningless tasks, he asked the master, "Why do they not seek enlightenment?" The master replied, "They are unaware of the darkness." The monk resolved to help the townspeople, and began every day to lecture about the importance of enlightenment in the temple square. Every day, his fellow monks cheered and applauded his speech, and reassured him that he spoke the truth. After a week, the master approached the monk and asked whether he was making progress with the townspeople. The monk replied, "I keep exhorting them to seek enlightenment, but not a single townsperson has stepped foot inside the temple." The master shook his head sadly and went on. After another week of preaching in the temple square, the monk still had no success. In frustration he sought out the master, asking "Why do the townspeople remain unenlightened?"

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