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How to use village in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Village means a rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town. Example: “There are 2 churches and 3 shops in our village.”

Examples of village by meaning

nounA rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.

  • There are 2 churches and 3 shops in our village.
  • The population in 1989 was estimated at 2,000, the great majority of whom live in London, Banana and Poland villages in the west.1993, Derek A. Scott, “A DIRECTORY OF WETLANDS IN OCEANIA”, in Wetlands International, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2018, page 188
  • The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages.2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2020, page 28

nounA rural habitation that has a church, but no market.

  • Every time I go into any Midsomer village, it's always the same thing: Blackmail, sexual deviancy, suicide, and murder.1999 September 12, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Dead Man's Eleven”, in Midsomer Murders

nounAn exclusive gated community; a subdivision.

  • There are six blocks in our village, each having ten lots.

More sentences with village

  • She lives a mile or two away, in the next village.From the entry next
  • They use airplanes to deliver mail and supplies to the far northern villages.From the entry airplane
  • Hidden in the mountains is a small secluded village that not many people know of.From the entry secluded
  • Whole villages have been leveled by the hurricane coastal residents braced for.From the entry hurricane
  • The commons is the green space surrounded by the village hall, the school, and the church.From the entry commons
  • The hanging of the bandits was attended by the whole village.From the entry hanging
  • There is not sufficient access to the Internet in many small rural villages.From the entry sufficient
  • My neighbor was the lead role in last year's village play.From the entry role
  • Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday.From the entry surgery
  • Their hastily fabricated Potemkin village was practically deserted, what with all the ghosting.From the entry ghosting
  • The more outlying villages were never visited by their member of parliament.From the entry outlying
  • The ritual was performed to exorcise the demons from the village.From the entry exorcise
  • We could see the lights of the village twinkling in the distance.From the entry twinkle
  • Traditionally a village smithy was a busy place because the smith's work was so necessary.From the entry smithy
  • The monk was remembered as a beneficent figure in the village.From the entry beneficent
  • We could distantly make out figures dancing in the village square.From the entry distantly
  • Seen from the air at night, tiny villages bespeckle the Indian landscape with firefly glows.From the entry bespeckle
  • We will invade the village, and the blood will flow like water.From the entry like water
  • The guaniferous cave provides a source of income for the village.From the entry guaniferous
  • On May Day, the villagers used to dance around a maypole on the village green.From the entry village green
  • Village Homes in Davis, California and The Woodlands, Texas are ecoburbs..From the entry ecoburb
  • A small village hut in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains.From the entry in the shadow of
  • Me an' my folks are goin' to the yearly village fair! will ya come with us?From the entry village fair
  • Most families in the village are barely on the subsistence level.From the entry subsistence level
  • Ten years on, nothing had changed in the village.From the entry on
  • There are two wats near this village.From the entry wat
  • His village had faced a drought twice.From the entry drought
  • She was laid to rest in the village cemetery.From the entry rest
  • The soldiers raided the village and burned it down.From the entry raid
  • We were presented to the village elder.From the entry elder
  • Get and keep wrongdoers out of your thorp (village).From the entry wrongdoer
  • Yang says he remembers being able to see the glacier’s lowest edge from his home village. But that time has passed.From the entry lowest
  • According to village scandal, they weren't even married.From the entry scandal
  • The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.From the entry a
  • Volcanic ejection covered the village in ash.From the entry ejection

Meaning of village

  1. noun A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
  2. noun A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
  3. noun A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.

Full definition of village

Questions about village in a sentence

How do you use village in a sentence?
Village is used as a noun. For example: “There are 2 churches and 3 shops in our village.”
What is a short sentence with village?
“His village had faced a drought twice.”
What does village mean?
Village means a rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: village (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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