How to Use town meeting in a Sentence

town meeting

noun
  • Cheryl sends them all away, which brings us to the town meeting.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • This is not what happens in the actual town meeting that takes place.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Three or four rallies and town meetings and meeting with groups of people.
    — NBC News, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Someone volunteers to drive the team to an out-of-town meeting.
    — Washington Post, 22 July 2021
  • The best Tommy can do is put it up for discussion and vote at a town meeting.
    — EW.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The town is planning to hold its annual town meeting outdoors this year.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 11 May 2021
  • The council will vote on the budget following the town meeting.
    — Steven Goode, Courant Community, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The process in both towns started years ago when voters at town meetings approved plans to phase out the equipment.
    — Neal Riley, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The project faced intense pushback, with many people protesting at town meetings.
    — Lorraine Longhi, azcentral, 20 May 2020
  • There were no signs that the Croydon town meeting in March would be unusual.
    — Peter Greene, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • Those town meetings sometimes took from 7 in the morning until 10 at night.
    — Diana Bruk, Country Living, 24 Oct. 2016
  • The spending plan will then go to town meeting for final approval on May 21.
    — Janice Steinhagen, Courant Community, 24 Apr. 2018
  • At town meetings, neighbors have voiced their concerns about noise, water use and other effects.
    — Jack Herrera, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Richard Pannell told a Houston town meeting over flooding last year.
    — Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2017
  • The plan is set for another vote at Marblehead’s next town meeting, in May.
    — Jenna Russell, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
  • The public hearing prior to the board’s decision drew more people than could fit into the town meeting room.
    — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 8 July 2019
  • There's something to be said for that, but the worry was that his life would devolve into political town meetings.
    — Mary Kaye Schilling, Town & Country, 26 June 2014
  • First cross-town meeting of these Metro Conference members in 19 years.
    — and Staff Reports, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Butler, the selectman, recalled that Karun almost always showed up to the town meetings that take place twice a month.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 14 June 2019
  • The painting shows a New England town meeting, where a man stands to speak as the audience turns toward him.
    — Adam Kirsch, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The Windham Town Hall will feature a town meeting from 200 years ago and building tours.
    — Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The New England town meeting is the earliest example.
    — Trygve Throntveit, Time, 27 May 2026
  • The selectmen will likely set the special town meeting date at the March 13 regular meeting.
    — Janice Steinhagen, Courant Community, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Edgewood incorporated in 1920, holding its first town meeting in the garage of the first mayor.
    — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • While in the Senate, Feingold made a point to hold town meetings in all 72 of Wisconsin’s counties.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The council must endorse a budget by April 29, then convene a town meeting and set the budget and tax rate May 11.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Adams conveyed Hutchinson’s reply to the town meeting, which swelled by afternoon to 3,000 people.
    — Stacy Schiff, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
  • In New Hampshire, as much as 14 inches of snow is forecast, and the storm is wreaking havoc with the age-old town meeting tradition.
    — Alanna Durkin Richer, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • In New Hampshire, where as much as 14 inches of snow is forecast, the storm is wreaking havoc with the age-old town meeting tradition.
    — CBS News, 13 Mar. 2018
  • But once town residents learned in 2018 that the new owners were Hasidic, town meetings were called and things came to a grinding halt, the lawsuit charges.
    — Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2019

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