How to Use townie in a Sentence

townie

noun
  • It was left to the feds to indict her townie cop boyfriend.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 14 Jan. 2026
  • These were not preppy tourist kids but townies with townie buzz cuts.
    — Stephen King, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
  • The one-time fishermen’s fave — a hole in the wall — now draws townies and tourists.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Or was the crime farmed out to a civilian, a Canton townie no doubt.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 19 Nov. 2025
  • But that route is full of peril, and no townie is willing to provide them an escort.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Then Goodell walked the townie outside the bar, down the street and the incident was over.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Even if only family ‘n’ friends and the crazy college townie are in the stands to watch, the world is better if the girls play.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Friendly tourists and townies can’t resist treating her like a celebrity while running their fingers through her unruly brown fur.
    — Nick Agro, Orange County Register, 24 May 2017
  • Butt dialing seems to be quite the problem in what the townies call Can-UHN.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 22 May 2024
  • In the previous films, Ray was a prototypical townie but still had a good head on his shoulders.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 19 July 2025
  • That Canton murder was exposed by the feds after the locals brushed it off as a suicide to protect a fellow townie cop.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 July 2025
  • The pilot follows Hoffman’s character Mikey, a ski bum townie chasing a buzz.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 26 May 2026
  • The townies get understandably sick of the leering hordes; some are resigned to the glut and the spectacle, while others are less forgiving.
    — Chris Vognar, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
  • There was some casual cruelty going on, first toward a townie, and then that victim was exchanged for one of the Jewish boys.
    — Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2013
  • Mills stood at the pulpit and described her transition from Yale-resenting townie to union organizer.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Off-duty, there are group mountain bike rides, townie bike tours, and ski posses, followed by brews at the nearby Brick Oven Pizzeria.
    — Nick Davidson, Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2014
  • In the episode's final moments, Clint and several bloodthirsty townies descend upon the Black Spot with guns.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Nothing made Harvard’s contempt for townies clearer than the Fogg’s $20-a-head admission tab.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Here, in no particular order, are 15 towns across the country with enough offerings to keep even townies and travelers happy.
    — Calder Quinn, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The image Benchley leaves us with is one of the townie dying for the town, Quint vanishing into the sucking blue, his arms spread like Christ.
    — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 26 June 2025
  • Customers at the gas station mart still talk about how townies would fish in the Gulf on warm days, and the women who work alongside Smith tell old stories about people who are long gone.
    — Nidhi Sharma, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Or grab a seat in the Canteen’s backyard, where the beach party atmosphere draws a lively cross section of Provincetown — townie and tourist, young and old, gay and straight alike.
    — Brett Sokol, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Once there, Montauk townies, preppy uptowners, humble fans of tech-house, scene kids, and everything in between get treated to sets from the biggest names in dance, rap, and pop.
    — Waiss Aramesh, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2025
  • With a target for house-building imposed on the council by the government, villagers and townies end up pitted against each other, trying to shove development elsewhere.
    — The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
  • The brick-and-steel tasting room offers comfy church pews for sipping spirits and watching the Salida traffic on summer days, when the garage bay doors are raised and the townie cruiser bikes are stacked deep out front.
    — Amy Brothers, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2017
  • One sister got engaged to a Catholic man who attended Mass at Immaculate Conception, the townie church.
    — Emma Green, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The current mayor, Tom Koch, a fellow townie hack of Meatball’s, is almost as detested across the board as Morrissey.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 14 Jan. 2026
  • His impulsive, irrational behavior is also troubling, evidenced in the scene where Lloyd whips out a shotgun on teen townies planning to egg his home mere days after spray-painting the film’s title on it.
    — Courtney Howard, Variety, 29 Mar. 2023
  • After enjoying what seems to be only minutes of the dance — likely not even long enough for an unruly townie to spike the prom punch — Karl must ditch his date in the middle of the soiree in order to pursue his latest murder investigation.
    — Claire Franken, TVLine, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Some older local Twitter users might actually be townies, but the majority of local Twitter— particularly the part that has the power to make local tweets go viral— is made up of teens.
    — Taylor Lorenz, The Atlantic, 3 July 2018

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