burg

Example Sentences

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Hometown names stepped up to defend the burg by posting photos of clean streets, manicured parks and humming community events.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

Surrounding me would be the natural denizens of Martini Town, if such a burg existed, all eager to savor the lot’s first Hallmark Fan Experience.

From Salon • Dec. 23, 2023

The town is Maplewood, a quaint commuter burg which is home to a number of New York Times employees and, probably not coincidentally, is the subject of frequent coverage in the New York Times.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2023

The former timber and mining burg of Index, roughly 60 miles northeast of Seattle, once welcomed such pass-through traffic along its few unpretentious blocks via a 10-mile winding road from Gold Bar.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2022

There they were welcomed again with joy and renewed hope; for now there were men enough to man both the burg and the barrier wall.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien