Example Sentences

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Blink, and you might well miss something a little unusual about the quaint, almost village-like, centre of Old Harlow in Essex.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2023

Beyond those amenities, it’s the people who give the neighborhood its village-like feel, she said.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2023

But deadly strikes, when they do occur, send ripples of grief through a sprawling metropolis that in some respects retains a village-like atmosphere.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2022

Your lifelong quest to consume spicy frog soup and stir-fried ant eggs ends at Huen Muan Jai restaurant, another village-like sprawl of rustic wooden houses and pavilions.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2018

The village-like little capital was all greenery and roses and sunshine and bird-song and light-hearted laughter, and he felt, with a glow, that it was good to be back.

From The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe by Stanard, Mary Newton