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How to use township in a sentence

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Township means the territory of a town. Example: “Charter townships are able to levy millage on the residents without a vote of the people.”

Examples of township by meaning

nounThe territory of a town.

  • The train is usually crowded and half the township of Forres seems to turn out to watch it go off.1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 23
  • Furthermore, everyone knows that the crops grown at Chou-Shui River are of high quality, like the rice of Siluo Township, watermelons of Erlun Township, garlic of Cihtong Township, flowers of Shijo Township, guava of Shetou Township, and so on.2010, Rajib Shaw, Danai Thaitakoo, Water Communities, Emerald Books, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 252
  • Tondop said the township of Mendi is slowly getting back to normal.2018 June 18, Joshua Berlinger, “Papua New Guinea declares 9-month state of emergency due to riots”, in CNN, archived from the original on...

nounAn area set aside for nonwhite occupation.

  • In addition, the council has completed the planning of a new Coloured township on the site of the existing African township.1972, Daily Dispatch

More sentences with township

  • Charter townships are able to levy millage on the residents without a vote of the people.From the entry millage
  • Significant differences in place attachment were also founded among those coming from different townships.2021, Wan-Yu Liu et al., “Impacts of Environmental Change on Place Attachment”, in Joseph S. Chen, editor, Advances in Hospitality and…. From the entry Jinning
  • Studies have narrowed the territorial focus to signage used in specific cities, townships, suburbs, precincts, etc.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual…. From the entry territorial
  • The pig carcass was discovered on New Year’s Eve on a beach in the township of Jinsha.2019 January 4, Charlie Storrar, “VIDEO: Pig infected with ASF washes up on Kinmen”, in Radio Taiwan International, archived from the…. From the entry Jinsha
  • Nan Yuan Resort (南元休閒農場) is located on the border between Liuying(柳營) and Liuchia (六甲) townships.2018 December 13 [c. 2013], “Nan Yuan Resort(南元休閒農場)”, in Travel Tainan, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2019. From the entry Liuchia
  • In Yunlin’s Sihhu township, 65% of the people are surnamed Lin.2018 November 5, Natalie Tso, “Same surname! 149 Taiwan towns have a “majority surname””, in Radio Taiwan International, archived from the…. From the entry Sihhu
  • The activity was organized by the county's Chichi township office and attracted up to 60 participants.2017 November 18, “Arboreal fun”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2022. From the entry chichi
  • The most catastrophic damage occurred in Siaolin, Chiahsien township and Nansalu village, Namasia township.2017, Michiko Banba, Rajib Shaw, Land Use Management in Disaster Risk Reduction: Practice and Cases from a Global Perspective, →ISBN…. From the entry Namasia
  • Speaking to RFA, a police officer in Keriye’s Kokyar township confirmed the recruitment drive was under way.2017, Richard Finney, reporter Eset Sulaiman, “Xinjiang Police Launch Recruitment Drive Following Uyghur Knife Attack”, in Mamatjan Juma…. From the entry Kokyar
  • The festival is scheduled to start in the township on Oct. 31.2015 October 22, “Cultural festival promo”, in Focus Taiwan, Photos of the Day. From the entry Puzih
  • This dissertation focuses on agriculture and the farmers' association in Tzutung township of Yunlin.2015, Yu-Hsuan (張鈺萱) Chang, “農業創新成功關鍵因素個案分析 -以雲林莿桐鄉為例 [Case Study on the Key Success Factors of Agriculture Innovation - On the Case of…. From the entry Tzutung
  • Kinmen’s second-largest settlement, SHANWAI (often referred to as Jinhu township), is mostly populated with young soldiers.2015 August, Simon Foster, Stephen Keeling, “The Taiwan Strait Islands”, in The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides), 3rd edition…. From the entry Jinhu
  • You drive a M5 down a township street, ten jackers roll you for the ride.2013, Mike Nicol, Of Cops & Robbers. From the entry jacker
  • He then drove up to the township and dragged me inside the cop shop.2011, Robert Watkins, A Face in the Crowd, page 40. From the entry cop shop
  • Shijiaying, which is a small township in western Beijing, is rich in coal resources.2011, Zhang Zhiguo, Shen Naiqi, Wang Yingshuang, Li Yongcheng, Song Yanyan, He Tao, “Geological Environment Problems and Countermeasures…. From the entry Shijiaying
  • Lienchiang County has four townships – Nangan, Beigan, Jyuguang (Dungchu, Hsichu) and Dongyin.2010 June 7, “Jurisdiction”, in 福建連江地方檢察署 [Fuchien Lienchiang District Prosecutors Office], archived from the original on 17 May 2021. From the entry Jyuguang
  • Blomkamp’s “District 9,” a science fiction adventure about apartheidlike townships for space aliens.2009 July 25, Michael Cieply, “Lord of ‘Rings’ and Anime’s Avatar Hit Comic-Con”, in New York Times. From the entry apartheidlike
  • The highest infection rate was also observed at the district of Kinning township (33.3%).2008 December, C.M. Shih, W.C. Yu, L.L. Chao, “Molecular Diagnosis of Babesia Infection Among Rodents Collected from the Offshore Kinmen…. From the entry kinning
  • Of the 25 townships in the county, 19 do not have a single Chinese person.2006 March 19, Jim Yardley, “Deep in China, a Poor and Pious Muslim Enclave”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York…. From the entry Dongxiang
  • Husi is the only township in Penghu where agriculture is more important than fishing.2005, 台灣鄉鎮之美 [Taiwan Town and Country], 遠流出版事業股份有現公司, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 176. From the entry husi
  • A number of Jiangmen's townships have become highly concentrated production areas.2003 April, Michael Enright, Edith Scott, “Jiangmen”, in The Greater Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong: Invest Hong Kong, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 101. From the entry Xinhui
  • In his letter, Mr Li revealed the bleak situation in Qipan township.2002 January 27, Josephine Ma, “Champion of the downtrodden has no regrets”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 13…. From the entry Qipan
  • As for Li's body, it was discovered 8 km to 9 km downstream at Houjie township.2001, Anita Chan, China's Workers Under Assault: The Exploitation of Labor in a Globalizing Economy, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC…. From the entry Houjie
  • It is made up of one township and one town and 71 administrative villages.1999, 中国新兴城市: 河南卷, volume 2, 新华出版社 [Xinhua], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 242, column 1. From the entry Zhanhe
  • Elihu Neff's residence, in this township, and there was no accounting for the whenceness of their coming.1995, John Robert Colombo, Ghost Stories of Ontario, page 39. From the entry whenceness
  • Similar factions permeate the political life of Yingge township, close to Sanxia.1982, Stevan Harrell, Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan [犁舌尾], Seattle; London: University of Washington Press, →ISBN…. From the entry Yingge
  • We later liberated Laohsinkou, Mienyang, Chienchiang and other cities and townships.[1978 July 19 [1978 July 14], “How the Hunghu Red Base Area Was Built”, in Daily Report People's Republic of China, Foreign Broadcast…. From the entry Haoxue
  • Fan Yuan-yen came from Sungchi township of Yungchuan county in Szechuan.1978, Yuan-yen Fan, Testimony for 800 Million Suffering People, →OCLC, page 35, column 1. From the entry Yungchuan
  • Hsinchuang township lies within the Taipei basin on the north side of the Tamshui River.1978, “Rural Taiwan and Urban Morocco”, in Samuel H. Preston, editor, The Effects of Infant and Child Mortality on Fertility, Academic…. From the entry Kungliao
  • Most of the township consists of flat alluvial land used for rice paddy.1978, “Rural Taiwan and Urban Morocco”, in Samuel H. Preston, editor, The Effects of Infant and Child Mortality on Fertility, Academic…. From the entry Hsinchuang
  • Hourwise traffic volume variations on arterial, collector, residential streets in Ranchi township are shown in Fig. 2.1973, N S Srinivasan, S B Sripathi Rao, Forecasting of traffic and standardisation of widths of roads in industrial townships. From the entry hourwise
  • Chungshe is one of eleven villages in Liuchia township, Tainan county (see Maps 2 and 3).1972, Burton Pasternak, Kinship & Community in Two Chinese Villages, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10. From the entry northeast
  • Secondly, figure the percentage of the area's total numbers represented by each category in each township.1970, Martin M. C. Yang 楊懋春, Socio-Economic Results of Land Reform in Taiwan, Honolulu: East–West Center Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL…. From the entry Panchiao
  • The Wanli township is situated along the seashore eight Kilometers west of Keelung Harbor.1955, Annual Report, Ministry of Economic Affairs Mineral Survey Team, →OCLC, page 49. From the entry Wanli
  • One rural area, Jenai township, and one industrial locality, Juifang, showed population decreases.1954, Arthur F. Raper, Han-sheng Chuan, Shao-hsing Chen, “Current Benchmarks for Urban and Rural Taiwan”, in Urban and Industrial…. From the entry Juifang
  • STORES and tobacco were running out; it was time for a trip to the township.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 58. From the entry conscientiously

Meaning of township

  1. noun The territory of a town.
  2. noun A subdivision of a county.
  3. noun An area set aside for nonwhite occupation.

Full definition of township

Questions about township in a sentence

How do you use township in a sentence?
Township is used as a noun. For example: “Charter townships are able to levy millage on the residents without a vote of the people.”
What is a short sentence with township?
“A number of Jiangmen's townships have become highly concentrated production areas.”
What does township mean?
Township means the territory of a town.

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