towner

[ tou-ner ]
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noun
  1. a person who lives in a town or city.

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How to use towner in a sentence

  • "Purty long ride ye hed fur such a big load," remarked one towner.

    Watch Yourself Go By | Al. G. Field
  • A Dry-towner, rangy and scarred, looked out at me, and it seemed that the expression on his face was one of amazement.

    The Door Through Space | Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • During those days and nights on the trail I grew back slowly into the Dry-towner I once had been.

    The Door Through Space | Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • No Wolfan in his right mind will bargain with a Dry-towner carrying an unresolved blood-feud.

    The Door Through Space | Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • She pulled away and I saw again, beneath the veneer of petulant coquetry, that fierce and untamable insolence of the Dry-towner.

    The Door Through Space | Marion Zimmer Bradley