Example Sentences

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It's overcrowded because there are several thousand people in this low-income urban village in Manila, just one of many so-called "barangays".

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2016

But not all barangays have toed the line.

From Reuters • Oct. 6, 2016

Police in central Luzon told Reuters that 31 of the region's 3,100 barangays had not supplied a watch list.

From Reuters • Oct. 6, 2016

As always, it is the poor in the barangays — as the smallest units of municipal organization are called — who pay the highest price.

From Time • Aug. 25, 2016

Our fleet, which consisted of seven caracoas and four or five barangays, followed the enemy.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander