Towner is an English word with synonyms like townsman or resident. Below you'll find 9 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Towner meaning
A person from a certain town, or part of town
Using Towner
- The main meaning on this page is: A person from a certain town, or part of town
- Useful related words include: townsman, resident, occupant, occupier.
- In the example corpus, towner often appears in combinations such as: towner eastbourne.
Context around Towner
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 6 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Towner
- In this selection, "towner" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, dawn, alison, eastbourne, regina and art stand out and add context to how "towner" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include biologist alison towner is on and eastbourne s towner art gallery. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "towner" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with towner
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The hub will be operated by Towner Eastbourne. (8 words)
Shark Biologist Alison Towner is on the case. (8 words)
Eastbourne’s Towner Art Gallery has appointed a new director. (10 words)
Montville, pp. 88–90 Creamer, p. 203 Sale to New York As an out-of-towner from New York City, Frazee had been regarded with suspicion by Boston's sportswriters and baseball fans when he bought the team. (38 words)
The partnership builds on a long-standing relationship between Sussex and Towner Eastbourne and includes events at the University’s Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, which will bring the prize alive for a wider audience. (36 words)
In her directorial debut, Karen Gillan (Nebula in the Marvel movies) plays a depressed twenty something in the Scottish Highlands who spends her nights getting drunk and hooking up with an out-of-towner. (34 words)
Example sentences (9)
Evertonians often like to poke fun at Liverpool fans by saying they are out-of-towner or mostly live in Norway while most Toffees are from the city.
The partnership builds on a long-standing relationship between Sussex and Towner Eastbourne and includes events at the University’s Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, which will bring the prize alive for a wider audience.
The hub will be operated by Towner Eastbourne.
But that will require Blair Pfaff (Andrew Rannells), Dawn Towner (Regina Hall) and Keith Shankar (Paul Scheer) to put their trust in Maurice Monroe, a.k.a. Mo (Don Cheadle).
Eastbourne’s Towner Art Gallery has appointed a new director.
He was an out-of-towner, and I liked him a lot and thought he liked me a lot.
In her directorial debut, Karen Gillan (Nebula in the Marvel movies) plays a depressed twenty something in the Scottish Highlands who spends her nights getting drunk and hooking up with an out-of-towner.
Shark Biologist Alison Towner is on the case.
Montville, pp. 88–90 Creamer, p. 203 Sale to New York As an out-of-towner from New York City, Frazee had been regarded with suspicion by Boston's sportswriters and baseball fans when he bought the team.
Common combinations with towner
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: