village green
Example Sentences
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At a stroke, international sport resembled the village green.
From BBC • Sep. 7, 2024
“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
It turns our village green into this underwater kingdom.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
