TOWN in a Sentence

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1. The town has been designated a development area.
2. The town is a popular destination for art lovers.
3. Milan was Mr Craxi's home town and his power base.
4. If we take the bypass we'll avoid the town centre.
5. Trains roared in and out of the town at all hours.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of TOWN
town
 n.  an administrative division of a county
 n.  United States architect who was noted for his design and construction of truss bridges (1784-1844)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The urgent need of a wife became clear to him one morning when he was dressing to ride to town for Court Day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Atlanta had always interested her more than any other town because when she was a child Gerald had told her that she and Atlanta were exactly the same age.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  In the nine years before Scarlett was born, the town had been called, first, Terminus and then Marthasville, and not until the year of Scarlett's birth had it become Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  The older, quieter cities were wont to look upon the bustling new town with the sensations of a hen which has hatched a duckling.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  The people who settled the town called successively Terminus, Marthasville and Atlanta, were a pushy people.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  Restless, energetic people from the older sections of Georgia and from more distant states were drawn to this town that sprawled itself around the junction of the railroads in its center.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  Like herself, the town was a mixture of the old and new in Georgia, in which the old often came off second best in its conflicts with the self-willed and vigorous new.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  Moreover, there was something personal, exciting about a town that was born--or at least christened--the same year she was christened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  The same railroads which had made the town the crossroads of commerce in time of peace were now of vital strategic importance in time of war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  Far from the battle lines, the town and its railroads provided the connecting link between the two armies of the Confederacy, the army in Virginia and the army in Tennessee and the West.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  Scarlett looked about her for the little town she remembered so well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  The town she was now seeing was like a baby grown overnight into a busy, sprawling giant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  Almost the pulsing of the town's heart could be felt as the work went forward night and day, pumping the materials of war up the railway arteries to the two battle fronts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  Trains roared in and out of the town at all hours.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  On the outskirts of town were the remount depots where horses and mules milled about in large corrals, and along side streets were the hospitals.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The town is well placed for easy access to London and convenient for Heathrow Airport.
2  From across the town came the rattle of machine-gun fire.
3  The town remains sleepy despite the activity all around it.
4  The town was declared a disaster area after the floods.
5  We spent the afternoon meandering around the streets of the old town.
6  Hardly anyone in the town escaped the slaughter when the rebels were defeated.
7  As you approach the town, you'll see the college on the left.
8  The town has been designated a development area.
9  The police will need to keep a wary eye on this area of town.
10  The town is a popular destination for art lovers.
11  On the day after the terrorist attack, the overall mood in the town was one of vengeance.
12  The Local Authority runs an advice centre in the town.
13  If we take the bypass we'll avoid the town centre.
14  When she retired, she moved back to her home town.
15  Milan was Mr Craxi's home town and his power base.