Below you will find example sentences with "small town". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Small Town in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: small
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 30.3 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "small town" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 30.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a stunning small town with plenty, a very small town a small, city, worked and home stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with small businesses, small business, town hall and small businesses, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with small town
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
One of the reasons I enjoy small town living is the small stuff. (13 words)
As it happens in small towns we were labled Dev Anand and Vyjanthimala of our small town, Shimla. (18 words)
Small town bands rarely go much further than the town next door to play gigs and acquire new fans. (19 words)
Born in the small town of Sunne in Värmland, a province of western Sweden noted for its lakes and streams, he was brought up in the nearby and even smaller town of Torsby by his parents: Sven, a bus conductor, and Ulla, who worked in a textile shop. (48 words)
The impact of war on the day-to-day lives of citizens of a small town in Ukraine is profiled in When Spring Came to Bucha (UK Premiere), which poignantly captures how a small community continues with life amid trauma and loss while war rages on close by. (48 words)
In a small town, you will see T-shirts in the high school’s colors at the hardware and grocery store; half the town shows up for the football and basketball games; and the games are often broadcasted on the local radio station. (43 words)
Example sentences (20)
He continued, “I, logically, would never have written the song with ‘small town, small town, small town’ in it so many times, but emotionally, it worked.
The Isle of Bute is home to the Royal Burgh of Rothesay - a stunning small town with plenty to do - from Italian restaurants to the putting greens, there’s plenty to do and admire in the small sea-side port town.
You know, this is what happens if you are a gay man in a place like where I grew up, which is a very small town, a small religious town.
He says he will never forget his small town roots, "I think its cool for people to see someone that they knew from a small town to go and accomplish things that maybe seem extraordinary.
Small town vs. big city One of the current debates in the Tri-City area is whether to try to maintain a small-town feel or to embrace its growth and become a larger metropolitan area.
You all love to get at each other's throats, but this is a small town, small caucus, small state.
Born in the small town of Sunne in Värmland, a province of western Sweden noted for its lakes and streams, he was brought up in the nearby and even smaller town of Torsby by his parents: Sven, a bus conductor, and Ulla, who worked in a textile shop.
The town (reference: Wikipedia!) is thriving and has just started the second of its Big Village Small Town arts festivals.
When we weren’t cooking, we were planning the next meal, chasing the daily markets from small town to even smaller town, reveling in the figs, the sausages, the incredible cheeses we couldn’t get at home.
In a small town, you will see T-shirts in the high school’s colors at the hardware and grocery store; half the town shows up for the football and basketball games; and the games are often broadcasted on the local radio station.
Small town bands rarely go much further than the town next door to play gigs and acquire new fans.
Part of the reason I chose Stillwater, is because it’s not a massive town and it is not a small town.
This hospitable and vibrant ‘small town feeling’ is easy to find at Berlin, and our visit to the town was positively a thing to remember,” he added.
History Wesleyan Mission Premises, George-Town, Demerara (1850) citation The city of Georgetown began as a small town in the 18th century.
Ludlow was described by Country Life as "the most vibrant small town in England." citation Geography The town and castle viewed from the Whitcliffe, looking northeast; Brown Clee Hill looms in the distance.
One of the reasons I enjoy small town living is the small stuff.
The impact of war on the day-to-day lives of citizens of a small town in Ukraine is profiled in When Spring Came to Bucha (UK Premiere), which poignantly captures how a small community continues with life amid trauma and loss while war rages on close by.
As it happens in small towns we were labled Dev Anand and Vyjanthimala of our small town, Shimla.
I don’t doubt that the fireworks in Encampment and Saratoga generate similar feelings, because they are small town, too, but if I may be so bold, Medicine Bow puts on a hell of a display for such a small municipality.
If you give small town small businesses extra consideration, you are less likely to hear complaints about urban wages imposed where they will force businesses to close.