Town example sentences

The two girls hurried out of the building, up the street toward Boggins Heights, the part of town that wore such a forbidding air on this kind of a November afternoon, drizzly, damp and dismal.In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, merchants from the towns in Europe began moving to the countryside, supplying money to peasants and artisans, persuading them to produce for an international market.At times they lost their cattle and sheep and became labourers, working on fields or in small towns.Even as this was happening, new arts, crafts and production activities flourished in towns and villages.As the Company traders moved to Bombay, Calcutta (present-day Kolkata) and Madras (present-day Chennai), Masulipatnam lost both its merchants and prosperity and declined in the course of the eighteenth century, being today nothing more than a dilapidated little town.A few years later a large area of forest was cleared on the banks of the river Subarnarekha to set up the factory and an industrial township Jamshedpur.In recent years a large number of students have been attending college in Shahpur town.The following is adapted from an account of experiences of being in a small town in Madhya Pradesh in the 1960s.We saw that new towns (Chapter 6) and kingdoms (Chapters 2, 3 and 4) were emerging, and people were taking up new professions and finding new roles for themselves.They have even begun supply to the neighbouring town.His novel Hard Times (1854) describes Coketown, a fictitious industrial town, as a grim place full of machinery, smoking chimneys, rivers polluted purple and buildings that all looked the same.Spirals of bangles — sunny gold, paddy green, royal blue, pink, purple, every colour born out of the seven colours of the rainbow — lie in mounds in unkempt yards, are piled on four-wheeled handcarts, pushed by young men along the narrow lanes of the shanty town.Pilgrimage centres also slowly developed into townships.When school was dismissed in the afternoon, Peggy said, with pretended casualness, “Hey, let's go and see if that kid has left town or not.Boojho thought that if it had rained so heavily in his town, it would have flooded the drains and roads.