Townsfolk is an English word with synonyms like town or townspeople. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Townsfolk meaning
The people who live in a town, especially the lower and middle classes.
Synonyms of Townsfolk
Using Townsfolk
- The main meaning on this page is: The people who live in a town, especially the lower and middle classes.
- Useful related words include: town, townspeople, municipality.
- In the example corpus, townsfolk often appears in combinations such as: the townsfolk, townsfolk who, townsfolk and.
Context around Townsfolk
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Townsfolk
- In this selection, "townsfolk" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, popular, early, felt, hoped and chose stand out and add context to how "townsfolk" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include among the townsfolk and and the townsfolk inside arm. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "townsfolk" sits close to words such as abated, aberrations and activations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with townsfolk
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Meanwhile, Jordan and the townsfolk inside arm up and get ready. (11 words)
As you might expect, the townsfolk weren't too happy with the postmaster. (13 words)
Roger wants to stage a play for the townsfolk called “Window on the Community”. (14 words)
An incident with the town’s school bus may have crystallized for her what had gone wrong — when the school bus broke down, as school buses are wont to do, the townsfolk had it sent to the White House garage to be repaired. (43 words)
You're given a series of increasingly difficult tasks, almost all of which involve acts of petty (and not so petty) larceny and vandalism, which you need to complete without being thwarted by the townsfolk of an idyllic English country village. (41 words)
Helped by tracking dogs and drones, police went door to door over the weekend, checking every residence and abandoned building in and around Gillam as townsfolk maintained their own stressful vigil for the fugitives. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
And then there’s the incredible Naomi Costain who plays station manager Maggie Wheeling, and all of the townsfolk who fill out the show.
But one of the most popular townsfolk, who has become so synonymous with the show, interestingly started out as a completely different character.
He looks like the those townsfolk in that Lovecraft story who were cross bred with weird alien fish.
Her love for adventure and exploration, along with her distinctive purple hair, makes her stand out among the townsfolk.
Scott is leading a project that uses bagged leaves given by the townsfolk of Almonte, diverted from landfill to produce “leaf mould”, also known as fungal dominant compost.
Their family bio states that they come from a long line of royals but were overthrown in a revolution when the townsfolk felt the pair were too "out there" to be their rulers.
When terrifying and strange-looking monsters from another dimension descended upon a small Maine town, a band of townsfolk hoped to escape the ordeal by sheltering in a supermarket.
You're given a series of increasingly difficult tasks, almost all of which involve acts of petty (and not so petty) larceny and vandalism, which you need to complete without being thwarted by the townsfolk of an idyllic English country village.
Although the town was named after Lisbon, Portugal, no one knows why its early townsfolk chose to name their town after Portugal’s capital city.
As you might expect, the townsfolk weren't too happy with the postmaster.
Meanwhile, Jordan and the townsfolk inside arm up and get ready.
Roger wants to stage a play for the townsfolk called “Window on the Community”.
The fair is thought to date all the way back to 1267 - when crab apples were given to the townsfolk by the Lord of the Manor.
An incident with the town’s school bus may have crystallized for her what had gone wrong — when the school bus broke down, as school buses are wont to do, the townsfolk had it sent to the White House garage to be repaired.
Thankfully for the townsfolk and farmer involved, the cows eventually headed home, settled back in their usual grazing area.
The comedy is sharp, with some of the film’s best lines coming from those townsfolk.
The townsfolk think she has an open heart and will improve the town’s fortunes, but she has returned for revenge.
Helped by tracking dogs and drones, police went door to door over the weekend, checking every residence and abandoned building in and around Gillam as townsfolk maintained their own stressful vigil for the fugitives.
The abbey was founded precisely 950 years ago, and now the clergy and townsfolk are gearing up for some serious celebrations of that momentous anniversary.
The new docuseries “No One Saw a Thing,” premiering Aug. 1 on SundanceTV, explores the 1981 killing of Ken Rex McElroy, a local menace executed in front of 60 townsfolk.
Common combinations with townsfolk
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the townsfolk 22×
- townsfolk who 5×
- townsfolk and 4×
- of townsfolk 3×
- those townsfolk 2×
- townsfolk of 2×
- townsfolk by 2×
- and townsfolk 2×
- townsfolk are 2×
- other townsfolk 2×