village green
Example Sentences
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At a stroke, international sport resembled the village green.
From BBC • Sep. 7, 2024
She took in the quiet country lanes, the village green and old brick houses, the everyday luxuries that British people take for granted.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2023
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
Countless hundreds of birds, orbiting the village green once, elasticking longer, twice, winging shorter, three times, then, as if following an order, vanishing inside the tree again.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
