Example Sentences

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The village-like building’s spatial looseness was part of a concerted effort to encourage chance encounters and interdisciplinary exchange at the school.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Beyond those amenities, it’s the people who give the neighborhood its village-like feel, she said.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2023

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

After two or three miles of ascent the road sloped downward, and it was not long before I entered a very neat and trim little town, which, however, was altogether village-like.

From Two Summers in Guyenne by Barker, Edward Harrison