How to Use town crier in a Sentence

town crier

noun
  • His town crier name is Lord Joseph.
    — ABC News, 23 June 2026
  • O’Connor too makes an endearing town crier with a brain for math.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • In centuries past, a town crier would read out the news or announcements to villagers, many of them illiterate.
    — Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
  • So much so, that there won't be a traditional Lindo Wing photo or town crier.
    — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 11 Apr. 2019
  • So far, the live feed has captured Tony Appleton, a town crier, announce the baby's birth.
    — Lyndsey Matthews, Town & Country, 23 Apr. 2018
  • But there’s reason to wonder whether his profession—like that of lamplighters, town criers, and cigarette girls—might be a thing of the past.
    — Andrew O’Hagan, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Without question, town crier Tony Appleton has been the most anxious about the arrival of the new prince.
    — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 23 Apr. 2018
  • As several hosts noted, an unofficial—some might say fake—town crier made the birth announcement on the steps of the hospital.
    — Laura Bradley, HWD, 24 Apr. 2018
  • In some communities, communication is akin to a town crier on a picnic table amid where people can safely gather for updates.
    — Alan Wooten | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Oct. 2024
  • In 2017, he was named Canberra’s town crier, according to Guinness.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
  • Avedon wanted not only to detect the pulse, with a physician’s intimate solicitude, but to amplify and announce it, like a town crier.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Another piece depicts a veker, the traditional town crier who wakes the devoted at dawn for morning penance, holding a lantern at a window, also with no arms.
    — Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2021
  • In several American colonies, instead of prison terms, certain criminals had their town crier access suspended for two years.
    — Washington Post, 24 June 2021
  • Tony Appleton, a town crier from southeast England, showed up in full regalia to declare the newborn prince’s birth outside the hospital.
    — Sylvia Hui, The Seattle Times, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Like a town crier of old, Mendez began shouting, in the tongue of his Tarahumara mother, an invitation to the four corners of Santa Rita.
    — John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Dec. 2020
  • In addition to his town crier responsibilities, Appleton owns a small elderly care home in Great Baddow, near Chelmsford.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The most important roles of local reporters are to play watchdog and town crier on policy and legislative issues happening in our own hyperlocal area to keep residents informed, aware and prepared to advocate when necessary.
    — baltimoresun.com, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Byanyima’s organization serves as the town crier at the World Economic Forum’s various annual events, warning the global jet-setting elites of the yawning divides their policies have created.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Evie was also ‘born’ in the Lindo Wing at St Mary’s Hospital — the same place where Kate Middleton gave birth to her children — after which a town crier announced Evie’s arrival into the world.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Joseph McGrail-Bateup, the official town crier for Canberra and Queanbeyan, in May broke the record for loudest shout by a male individual, the Guinness World Records said.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
  • Standing in the shadow of the Philadelphia skyline in Camden, Revolutionary War reenactors and the colonial town crier helped South Jersey step back in time to celebrate our nation's 250th birthday.
    — Sean Tallant, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026

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