Example sentences for: hometown

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

  • The label my friendly hometown airline had affixed to my bags had unexpectedly made me a marked man, someone selected for some unknown special treatment.

  • Elizabeth is moving to my hometown, the California hamlet of Beverly Hills, to become a sitcom writer.

  • 7 trillion federal budget--expected to pass today--as the first in three decades with a surplus and as containing the biggest peacetime increase in military spending since Ronald Reagan was president (complete, the NYT notices, with an aircraft carrier contract for Trent Lott's hometown, and a cargo plane contract for Newt Gingrich's.)

  • Remember the scene in Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint where the newly teen-aged Alex Portnoy goes to a frozen pond in his hometown of Newark to gaze upon gentile girls ice-skating?

  • 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.


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