Example Sentences

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The film, based on Rosalie Ham’s 2000 novel, turns on the promising idea that high fashion can be used as weapon, ensnaring the repulsive townswomen and underlining their ugly natures.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2016

As the townswomen trooped onstage, Britten represented each with a different solo instrument�chilling woodwinds, a whining oboe, a trumpet or cymbals.

From Time Magazine Archive

I see all the miniature townsmen and townswomen stationed throughout this imaginary village.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

Your own beauty, my fair townswomen, would have beamed upon you, out of my scene.

From Main Street (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

But the experienced townswomen quoted some similar cases, in which the infants had grown stronger immediately after baptism.

From The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy by Binion, Samuel A.