hamlet

Example Sentences

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The entire hamlet can only operate if Flores’ regular gasoline deliveries make it through on Highway 1 every two weeks.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Rows of solar panels carefully laid around pasture boundaries ripple across fields near the hamlet of Cambridge, England.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

He plans to protest every day until Sunday, after which he has to leave for a job in a hamlet.

From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026

Reid’s impoverished youth in a tiny hamlet in southern Nevada gave him an iron will, steep ambition and a sizable chip on his shoulder.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

My German-speaking father, dead since I was nine, came from some manic-depressive hamlet in the black heart of Prussia.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath