VILLAGE in a Sentence

Learn VILLAGE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
344 example sentences for VILLAGE, such as:
1. The village stands upon a hill.
2. The only access to the village is by boat.
3. You have a nice little village here, madam.
4. Almost every family in the village owns a television.
5. The woman knew that the nearest village was miles away.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of VILLAGE
village
 n.  a community of people smaller than a town
 n.  a settlement smaller than a town
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "This lady owns by no means a poor village," said Chichikov to himself; wherefore he decided then and there to have a talk with his hostess, and to cultivate her closer acquaintance.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
2  You have a nice little village here, madam.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
3  Upon that the lean, long, and red-bearded Uncle Mitai mounted the shaft horse; in which position he looked like a village steeple or the winder which is used to raise water from wells.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
4  At the same time Chichikov noticed a look of decay about the buildings of the village.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
5  Even before reaching Plushkin's village he had had a presentiment that he would do successful business there, but not business of such pre-eminent profitableness as had actually resulted.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
6  In short, he made such a scene that the whole village came running to the house, and children screamed, and men shouted, and no one could tell what it was all about.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IX
7  Beyond, on the side of a slope, lie some scattered peasants' huts, a manor house, and, flanking the latter, a village church with its cross flashing like a star.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
8  Lastly, a peasant of Tientietnikov's own village, when asked what his barin was like, returned no answer at all.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
9  In the same way had choral dances begun to be weaved in the village, and everywhere that the eye turned there was merriment.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
10  However, as I say, the pair ended by swearing eternal friendship with one another, and making a practice of resorting to the village tavern in company.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
11  "Doing business in the village with a party of factors," replied the lady as she conducted her guests to the drawing-room.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
12  Also, the village in Khlobuev's estate had about it a deserted air, and as for the proprietor himself, he was discovered in a state of drowsy dishevelment, having not long left his bed.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
13  Everywhere the same slovenliness, the same disorder, was displaying itself unadorned: the only difference being that a fresh puddle had formed in the middle of the village street.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
14  It has long been our peasants' play-ground, and all the traditions of our village are bound up with it.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
15  Behind the church a long village stretched in two rows, with chimneys peeping out here and there above the thatched roofs.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence: (134 in 9 pages)
1  The only access to the village is by boat.
2  Almost every family in the village owns a television.
3  The village had been hurriedly deserted, perhaps because terrorists were in the area.
4  There is a commemorative plaque to the artist in the village hall.
5  She says the patrolmen rounded them up at the village school and beat them with rifle butts.
6  This village has its own traditional dress, cuisine, folklore and handicrafts.
7  These traditional rites are performed only by the women of the village.
8  They argued that his presence in the village could only stir up trouble.
9  The village stands upon a hill.
10  The French I learned at school is very different from the local vernacular of the village where I'm now living.
11  A young girl in the village experienced a prophetic vision.
12  They hurriedly fortified the village with barricades of carts, tree trunks and whatever came to hand.
13  The woman knew that the nearest village was miles away.
14  A good neighbour is better than a bother in the next village.
15  Look beyond the hill and you'll see a village in the distance.