How to use "village" in a sentence

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

On a spring evening in 1818, in the village of Montfermeil, not far from Paris, two little girls were playing on a swing outside a small inn

He'd changed his name to Champmathieu and had lived for several years in the village of Ailly-le-Haut-Cloche

Christmas 1823 was especially lively and colourful in the village of Montfermeil

All the children in Montfermeil had gazed with wonder at this doll, but nobody in the village had enough money to buy it.

She had soon left the colourful lights and the happy laughter of the village behind her, and was running down the hill into the frightening darkness of the wood

She let him carry the bucket up the hill and, as they walked back towards the village, she told him everything about her life with the Thenardiers

I believe that he recently managed a small inn in the village of Montfermeil, not far from Paris

Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature who was ever seen

Little Red Riding Hood set out immediately to go to her grandmother, who lived in another village.

"Oh I say," answered Little Red Riding Hood; "it is beyond that mill you see there, at the first house in the village."

When Owen was a boy of fourteen, he played rugby or football every day, he ran to the school in the village just for fun, and he spent every Sunday in the forests with his dad.

'And she always knows every single thing that happens in the village,' said Griselda

Just think of the talk in the village.' She kissed me, and stepped through the open glass door into the garden.

It seemed odd for such a cultured woman to be living in a small country village.

I must leave the village.'

'He mentioned it this morning in the village, very loudly as usual.'

At five-thirty, they were driven to the village

And Dr Stone came down the path from Old Hall, so they all walked towards the village together

'Isn't the news awful? A murder! In this quiet village.'

And, Mrs Clement, you are the only person in the village I can talk to, except a lot of old women.'

Dr Stone met them and they walked together to the village

Well, after the vicar saw us there, I promised him that I would leave the village

I thought that after we parted in the village, she must have come back here and - so I put the pistol in my pocket and left

My husband and I drove into the village together

And they don't need to come through the village

Then, years later, she hears that he is living in this village, so comes down here and tries it again

She knew we'd connect it with the first one, so she paid some village boy to make the call for her

Mrs Protheroe said that she had last seen her husband at about a quarter to six when they parted in the village street

'My wife knew, and my nephew Dennis, and Colonel Protheroe himself mentioned it that morning in the village

I began to walk back to the village and our local chemist, Mr Cherabim, joined me

'The whole village probably knows where you keep your socks,' Then suddenly I asked, 'Was the pistol loaded?'

'It reminds me of the man who went round the village pretending to be the Gas Inspector

'He asked me if I wanted to find my husband's murderer, and I said, "Yes." And then he asked me whether I suspected anyone, and I said, "No." And then he said, did I think the person who committed the crime knew the village, and I said they certainly seemed to

To walk through the village with the suitcase would only encourage gossip

'A reason, yes, but when the shot was fired, Dr Stone was walking to the village with Mrs Protheroe and Lawrence Redding.'

I said goodbye and walked into the village to see the old ladies

I hurried down the village street

When the vicar came in, Lawrence explained that he had called to tell him that he had decided to leave the village

'Mrs Protheroe and her husband had just gone into the village

For the next ten minutes, they were careful to be seen by people in the village, then at last Mr Redding went back to the vicarage

Maybe there was talk in the village streets, a new topic in the pubs - and here and there a messenger, or even an eye-witness of the later events, caused some excitement

A man later told me that he had watched from a church roof as the smoke filled his village

But that was in a village where the Black Smoke was allowed to remain until it sank into the ground

A kilometer before the village the front wheel of the bicycle broke

We got out of the boat at Sonning and walked around the village

Sonning is a lovely village

We spent the night at Clifton Hampdon, which is a pretty village.

'I was happy there once, in a village called Limmeridge

When my mother came here, she started a school in the village

Listen: "There is a new student at the village school, a little girl called Anne Catherick

The next day I went to Mrs Catherick's house in the village by Blackwater Park

I went to the village church and spoke to the parish clerk.

The old parish clerk is dead now, but his son lives in the village

He told everyone in the village that Sir P had been my lover and that Anne was Sir P's child

I'll send you money every month on two conditions: you must keep the secret and never tell anyone, in your own interest as well as mine; and you must never leave the village.'

He knew that none of the village women spoke to me because 6 they thought I had lost my virtue

How I hated him! He forced me to stay here in this village, where they all talked about me but no one spoke to me! Finally, now, after all these years, I have earned their respect

I told her to meet me in the village the next day

Rigoberta was born in 1959 to a poor K'iche' Maya (Indigenous) family in a small village in Guatemala.

Valentina was born in a village about 170 miles from Moscow

Reina de Los Angeles is a Spanish village in southern California.

In the village there is a military presidio with Spanish soldiers and their horses

All around the village there are big homes with patios.

Inside the village tavern there are soldiers and other men

Francisco, you take Don Carlos to the village of Pala