Example sentences for: hometown

How can you use “hometown” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

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  • Critics heap praise on O'Nan's latest, the gruesome tale of a man who returns to Wisconsin after the Civil War to find his hometown engulfed by a diphtheria epidemic and hemmed in at the edges by wildfires.

  • Denied re-election in 1900, he retired to his hometown of Caldwell, about 30 miles west of Boise, forgotten by most of his fellow Idahoans--but not by the aggrieved miners.

  • A few years ago, while my father and I were visiting relatives in Denmark, we had occasion to use an elevator in his hometown of Svendborg.

  • He sobbed when he paid a recent visit to Ike's boyhood home in Abilene, Kan.; when he retired from the Senate earlier this summer; when he visited his hometown of Russell, Kan., in March; when he helped plant Nixon in Whittier in 1994; when he talked on 60 Minutes in 1993 about his father visiting him in the hospital; when he attended a Senate party in 1992 for the defeated George Bush; whenever he hears "You'll Never Walk Alone" (which he played continuously during his recovery); during a Ford/Dole campaign stop in Russell (he always seems to cry in Russell) in 1976, which he included in a later campaign video.


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