townships
- plural of township.
Example Sentences
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The Civil War was a driving factor in many of Michigan’s duplicate township names, said Catherine Mullhaupt, an attorney with the Michigan Townships Association.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2021
Louise Penny stepped onto the stage of the small Theatre Lac-Brome in Knowlton, a village in Quebec’s postcard-pretty Eastern Townships 70 miles southeast of Montreal, and settled into a leather wing chair amid applause.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021
Townships exist in the netherworld between the layers of municipal and county government.
From Washington Times • Jan. 18, 2017
I chose the Missisquoi Valley, in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, because I liked what the bay’s First Nations name meant: many aquatic birds.
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2017
Orlando West was a dusty, spartan area of boxy municipal houses that would later become part of Greater Soweto, Soweto being an acronym for South-Western Townships.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
