village-like
- a word derived from village.
Example Sentences
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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
However, both writers are concerned with closed societies — villages, or the village-like neighborhoods of London and Dublin, where you constantly encounter the same people, all poking into your private business and gossiping about it.
From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 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
Supermarkets have long featured bank branches and dry cleaners, but transforming them into village-like destinations is a newer experiment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2016
We contrived, after infinite torture, to put on our boots again, and then walked up the hill to the village-like town.
From Two Summers in Guyenne by Barker, Edward Harrison
