Example sentences for: small-town

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

  • A "glorified Mighty Ducks for grown-ups" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ) pretty much sums up the reaction to this tale of a small-town hockey team that gets a chance to play the New York Rangers.

  • Very few have roots in small-town New England.

  • For instance, the breakthrough notion of states suing cigarette manufacturers for the recovery of public funds spent on tobacco-related medical expenditures didn't come from Mississippi Attorney General Michael Moore, but from a law-school friend of his, a small-town lawyer named Michael T. Lewis, who cold-called him with the idea.

  • The pair's reunion, Runaway Bride , is a laborious screwball romance, which, in its first half-hour, had me checking off the details it got wrong about journalism, small-town life, and human relations.

  • As a tragically repressed and alcoholic small-town cop, Nolte conveys a "fierce, anguished intensity" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Critics say Schrader's style is a perfect match for Russell Banks' novel, and that the director "has hit, in this exquisitely shaped, paced, painted, and edited production, a new, deep level of artistry" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Only complaint: The voice-over narration by Willem Dafoe (as Nolte's brother) is a bit stilted and portentous.


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