Examples of villager in a Sentence
the villagers have a reputation for being polite and helpful to the tourists
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In Niata, do-Kasandrinos says villagers rose with the sun and spent most of their days outdoors, not as a wellness practice, just as a function of how life worked.
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Avery Newmark, AJC.com, 7 Apr. 2026
The villagers huddled in their church for protection as Israeli warplanes pounded large swaths of southern and eastern Lebanon while Israeli troops stepped up a ground invasion and Hezbollah kept firing rockets at Israel.
—ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
The next morning at dawn the priest holds a mass for the villagers, but the police come hunting for him, arriving just as the mass finishes.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
At home, the villagers are disturbed when settlers start to encroach on their land, but after one of the elders is shot and killed during a dispute with their new neighbors, the British side violently with the settlers.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 27 Mar. 2026
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Avery Newmark, AJC.com, 7 Apr. 2026
The villagers huddled in their church for protection as Israeli warplanes pounded large swaths of southern and eastern Lebanon while Israeli troops stepped up a ground invasion and Hezbollah kept firing rockets at Israel.
—ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
The next morning at dawn the priest holds a mass for the villagers, but the police come hunting for him, arriving just as the mass finishes.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
At home, the villagers are disturbed when settlers start to encroach on their land, but after one of the elders is shot and killed during a dispute with their new neighbors, the British side violently with the settlers.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 27 Mar. 2026
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“Villager.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/villager. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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villager
noun
vil·lag·er
ˈvil-ij-ər 
: a person living in a village
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