villager

Example Sentences

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They often compensate villagers when carnivores kill their livestock or herbivores eat their crops.

From The Wall Street Journal

In drought-hit northeastern Kenya, villagers have been forced to drag their dead livestock to distant fields for burning to keep the stench of death and scavenging hyenas away from their homes.

From Barron's

Now living in a holiday let, which she said did not feel "like home", the 89-year-old called on so-called "trauma tourists" to leave villagers in peace.

From BBC

Told largely through footage filmed by the hundreds of terrified villagers who gathered below, the film showcases how the ubiquity of the cellphone and connections to social media affect the way that events unfold.

From Barron's

One villager, who lives close to one of the raided locations in Worcestershire, told the BBC that tonnes of waste were being shredded at the site before being dumped elsewhere.

From BBC