Example sentences for: village

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

  • After emphasizing just how gross this film version of the popular Comedy Central series is ("the potty-mouth on this R-rated cartoon is pretty mind-boggling"--Gary Dauphin, the Village Voice ), critics go on to praise it: "Hilarious, willfully filthy" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ); David Ansen ( Newsweek ) calls it "tasteless, irreverent, silly and smart."

  • The cinematography is alternately praised as stunning and condemned as boring, but the response to the story line is unanimous: It's a "liberal soap opera" (Richard Schickel, Time ) that consists of a "self-congratulatory anti-prejudice message, fleshed out with painstaking topographic detail" (Dennis Lim, the Village Voice ). A few critics stand up for the film, calling it a "thoughtful, evocative thriller" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (Find out more about Hawke here.)

  • This tiny fishing village on the east coast also boasts some excellent beaches wonderful for windsurfing, plus a handful of local bars and some basic restaurants.

  • Beck nails the highbrow vote, with Luc Sante's Village Voice musing that the music has "a texture and effect that is not far from that of the hand-painted non-collages of James Rosenquist," as well as the lowbrow vote: USA Today says it "radiates party vibes" (Edna Gundersen).

  • The island of Burano is a simple fishing village, true haven of tranquility, though the olden days of ladies making lace on the doorsteps of their brightly colored houses, artists on the quay and no hustlers is all but history.


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