Example sentences for: villagers

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

  • And, as you point out in your piece, these were issues involving life and death--not only TOWs in Iran but also aid to the guerrilla fighters in Nicaragua, who were regularly implicated in killing peasant villagers and others.

  • In one report, Asahi Shimbun said villagers close to the Tokaimura uranium processing plant heard on television they had been told to stay indoors when in fact they had received no instructions whatsoever.

  • Respectful criticism greets Lone Star director John Sayles' film about the massacre of villagers in Central America.

  • Becker succeeds in establishing the famine "as one of the worst atrocities of all time" (Richard Bernstein, the New York Times ). He does this despite the Chinese government's continued effort to cover up the incident, and by way of "interviews with survivors [that] provide us with a chilling view of the famine as it was experienced by ordinary villagers" (Paul Pickowicz, the Wall Street Journal ).

  • Fitting for a place once cut off from the secular world, villagers had to wait until 1986 before the first television pictures arrived.


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