townsfolk

How To Use townsfolk In A Sentence

• Take the chance to tour its cellars, where the townsfolk once brewed their famous beers. The Sun
• From this offbeat narrative experiment, Greendale weaves a story of good, simple townsfolk under assault from authoritarian governments, corporations, media and so on.
• Soon, the sinister military turn up, as townsfolk begin to disappear. The Sun
• However, their arrival is met with a series of odd behaviors from the local townsfolk.
• It is not surprising the townsfolk cry out; the wonder rather is that they do nothing else.
• After several of the local townsfolk turn up dead, all eyes fall upon this disturbed and destructive kid.
• What, with careless exaggeration, he had said to a friend some months before, on setting forth his _Elegy on the Death of a Young Man_, "The thing has made my name hereabouts more famous than twenty years of practice would have done; but it is a name like that of him who burnt the Temple of Ephesus: God be merciful to me a sinner!" might now with all seriousness be said of the impression his _Robbers_ made on the harmless townsfolk of Stuttgart. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
• You have coon hunts, gators snoozing in the middle of the town square (the townsfolk politely step around him so as not to disrupt his nap), and drunken brawls at town socials.
• The townsfolk were reluctant to pursue them, for they were ill-equipped to chase well-armed and desperate outlaws into the wild, isolated regions where the criminals knew every trail and hiding place.
• This is embarrassing for New Labour, still seen as an urban movement governing for city and townsfolk.