How to Use townsfolk in a Sentence

townsfolk

plural noun
  • This isn’t good enough for a lot of the townsfolk, who are still angry over the tragedy.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Glen will seek out the townsfolk who offered to take him fishing.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2021
  • And yet, who doesn't still tear up a little when the townsfolk arrive to save the day?
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Neither the townsfolk nor the tourists lord it over the others or pity each other.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Terrified, the townsfolk lasso him and send him back to the farm where he was born.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The townsfolk laugh along and cheer Roche on, but is this the entire story?
    — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2024
  • In fact, scores of locals from the main locations played townsfolk.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
  • That’s more than can be said for the white townsfolk, who seethe and tremble from a careful distance.
    — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 28 June 2018
  • Sure, there are townsfolk, sheriffs, old cowboys and lots of action.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The viewer doesn’t fear that the boys will get beaten up by Italian townsfolk.
    — Esquire, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Stop by to see the town smithy pump the mighty bellows, making utensils used by the local townsfolk.
    — Melanie Savage, courant.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Not far away, a group of townsfolk play a brutal game that involves throwing a stick at a bird tied to a block of wood.
    — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Back in the downtown area, all the townsfolk are yelling their grievances at Wanda.
    — Abraham Riesman, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Recent footage saw him in tighty-whities, baptizing townsfolk in a river.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Away from bright lights, tourists and townsfolk flock to the site in winter to catch a glimpse of the northern lights dancing in the sky.
    — Kate Springer, CNN, 8 Oct. 2017
  • Along with a predilection for gambling, which concerned townsfolk, the miners brought with them or made bread starters.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 31 Mar. 2017
  • When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 17 Mar. 2021
  • That was why most of the townsfolk had remained, even as the fighting escalated.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The new scene will instead show pirates selling off the possessions of the townsfolk.
    — Hugo Martin, latimes.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Lucky has a fainting spell and when word gets around, the townsfolk express concern and sympathy.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The model of a theater as a castle on the hill, where the townsfolk venture to get their culture, is long gone.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Once dulled, Iorek was taken advantage of by the townsfolk, who stole his armor.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 3 Nov. 2019
  • After the feather was plucked from the princess' headdress last July, townsfolk wrote it off as a loss.
    — Bob Warren, NOLA.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The mural greeted hundreds of students just back from summer break, and townsfolk dropped by to see what all the talk was about.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2026
  • The dread disease arrived in the summer of that year; before long, the townsfolk needed to add a new graveyard.
    — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The city set up the chargers to encourage townsfolk to drive electric and electrified cars.
    — Daniel Gross, Slate Magazine, 5 Apr. 2017
  • After years of sleeping in barns and above shops, some of the wealthier townsfolk pooled money to build him a modest home.
    — Jay Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Behind her, the townsfolk tussle and bicker; one man shares a bone with a dog; housetops collapse into the street.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Carson, who has lived by the lake since 1965, got his title conferred to him by friends and townsfolk.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 June 2024
  • All’s well in the kingdom of Arendelle long enough for a generic happy-townsfolk number.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2019

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