village green
Example Sentences
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Local permit-holding residents could briefly pass through the village on Monday evening, where period cars lined the streets and a fete was staged on the village green.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
“At what point do we regard him as a crank on the village green, a person we can walk away from if we choose?”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
The town has “a manor house, a high street with shops, a meadow where sheeps graze, beehive cottages with thatched roofs, a village green which hosts cricket and yearly fetes.”
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2022
At 10 a.m. on a sunny Tuesday morning in early June, the place is as sleepy as a village green.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2021
They knew it was a rough and homely place compared to the farmhouses along the road and the ample mansions around the village green.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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