How to Use villager in a Sentence

villager

noun
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  • The members of the group said that the villagers had three days.
    — Nicolas Niarchos, Time, 30 Jan. 2020
  • In the 13th century, villagers would gift eggs to the lords of the manor or to the church.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Soh and the villagers will have to battle through the night.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The nickname is a simple but poignant joke on the part of the villagers.
    — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Her dream: to rally the villagers to build a new school.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2023
  • High above the road, at the top of the cliffs, dozens of villagers had gathered from Jaba and a-Ram.
    — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Tell them that killing villagers is against house rules?
    — Virginia Sole-Smith, Parents, 28 May 2024
  • Nearby, villagers of Kyark start to slink to their homes.
    — Arbab Ali & Nadeem Sarwar, Saveur, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The villagers keep half the produce; the rest goes to Mil, Martínez’s small restaurant here, and Central.
    — Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The villagers seem to have felt that this area was theirs, and other areas were not.
    — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • Most of our time in Herat was spent in cafes with villagers.
    — Brett Murphy, USA Today, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Later, with the church locked and the priest abed, the villagers and visitors danced on the midnight beach to the sound of the shepherds' pipes.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2023
  • The villagers have been using the resources of the river for thousands of years.
    — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Officials said some villagers might have been forced by the crime group to take part.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 11 July 2023
  • So with the help of Church and Trench, who show up just in time, the Expendables free the villagers and take on Vilain’s army.
    — Richard Newby, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The villager got out of his Toyota and came over to film the conversation, too.
    — Alexander Sammon, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The trees are sacred to the Bishnoi people, and a villager led a protest by wrapping her arms around a trunk.
    — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Both male and female villagers insist that the family drop the charges against the three young men, one of whom is the girl’s cousin.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The villagers know they have been betrayed, not least by themselves.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
  • As the fiddler plays, Tevye removes the red jacket to reveal the clothing of a villager.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 20 Oct. 2022
  • After he had been shot, some of the villagers had carried him to safety.
    — Gaia Vince, Quartz, 8 June 2019
  • Some of these villagers work at Everest base camp and are exposed there too.
    — Alton C. Byers, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
  • Much of this money failed to reach the villagers whose lives had been devastated by the tragedy.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The stone completely freaks the villagers out and Claire and Jamie are promptly banished.
    — Mehera Bonner, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Jan. 2019
  • In May, more than 50 villagers were corralled and shot dead in attacks by one of the rebel factions in the remote north-west.
    — Tim Lister, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The villager spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals by the government.
    — Time, 18 June 2021
  • In 2019, one was accused of fatally shooting a villager in the back.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2021
  • One looks like a villager who came straight from a Bavarian rave and is still tripping hard.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Sign up And in Shirakawa-go, the old communal system of yui – in which up to 200 villagers cooperate to thatch a roof in a single day – lives on.
    — The Week Uk, theweek, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Between fetching items, speaking with villagers, receiving (optional!) side quests and trekking through dungeons, there is plenty to explore, though more to discover certainly would have been welcome.
    — Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024

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