How to Use market town in a Sentence

market town

noun
  • Jill took videos of the market towns the van drove through, crowded with vendors.
    — Bridget Read, Curbed, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Ford, who is in her early fifties, is from Nantwich, a market town in Cheshire.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
  • In the west of Ireland lies a medieval market town, its roots steeped in legend.
    — Kara Fox, CNN, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Many retailers in this old market town have long held Amazon.
    — WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
  • We were headed for Black Spire Outpost, the rugged market town.
    — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • Northallerton is a bustling and thriving market town in North Yorkshire.
    — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The center of Chipping Norton, a market town on the edge of the north Cotswolds.
    — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
  • It is located in northwest England near the market town of Keswick.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • This quaint market town in the sprawling lowlands of eastern England should be a rural, right-wing heartland.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 6 July 2024
  • The rising lake is now just ten miles away from the old market town of Aralsk, where the walls of an empty harbor have been dry for decades.
    — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 June 2018
  • When a strange murder takes place in the sleepy market town of Bakerbury, the local police are baffled by a crossword puzzle left on the body.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The picturesque market town is the backdrop for the four-day celebration of the best writing and books, intended for bookworms of all ages.
    — Tess Foley-Cox, theweek, 28 Nov. 2024
  • In it, after a strange murder takes place in sleepy market town Bakerbury, the police are baffled by a crossword puzzle clue left on the body.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 4 Mar. 2025
  • She was sentenced to eighteen months in the women’s prison at Hoheneck, a grim red brick fortress on a hill above a Saxon market town.
    — Hari Kunzru, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
  • Some of my idiocy was knocked from me by a constant procession of small shocks about the way the world outside my rural market town actually worked.
    — Donal Ryan, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
  • The entrance to the market town of Tring is guarded by a 16th-century pub called the Robin Hood.
    — Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Bassist Horace Panter was from the genteel middle-class market town of Kettering.
    — Ian Penman, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Swaths of Rubkona, a market town next to Unity State's capital Bentiu, have been abandoned.
    — Brent Swails, CNN, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Conal Gallagher grew up in Carrickmacross, a sleepy market town in County Monaghan.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2023
  • As an extension of Dorchester, an ancient market town that dates back to Roman times, Poundbury does not have its own train station.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2022
  • In an early sign of protest to the Taliban's rule, dozens gathered in Jalalabad and a nearby market town to raise the tricolor national flag.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The market town in County Mayo, on the western fringes of Ireland, is where Rooney was born in 1991.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Portmore Estate spans nearly 3,500 acres near the historic market town of Peebles.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 26 June 2026
  • The building stands in the small market town of Eye, which is in the county of Suffolk, about 100 miles east of central London.
    — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Leominster, in the West Midlands area of England, is an ancient market town where the past and the present are jumbled together like coins in a change purse.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Far from being an urban ghetto, Staines is a suburban market town near Heathrow Airport, best known over the years for its linoleum factory.
    — Ken Jennings, CNT, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The riverside market town, Totnes, has become a byword for an outdoorsy, artistic community—catnip to the tourists who bunch around the estate agent windows.
    — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024
  • Road trippers will find public EV charging points in key market towns or at more than 50 self-catering cottages offering on-site charging.
    — Emese MacZko, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Until that case was found, the outbreak had been concentrated in remote villages near Bikoro, a market town on the shores of Lake Tumba.
    — Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 18 May 2018
  • Living in a small market town in England in the early ’90s, our family were the only people of color on the playground, at work, and in the shopping mall.
    — David Jesudason, Wired, 14 June 2021

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