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How to use the word a-town in a Sentence?

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Find something about every day that can make you smile, sing a song of joy, smile to a stranger, say hi to someone with a frown, but most of all, spread kindness all around town.”

Christen Kuikoua

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5 months ago

There is nothing suspicious about winning the presidency with a smaller number of counties, counties vary widely in size, with large urban and suburban counties – areas where Biden did best – housing far larger populations than most of the outer suburb, small town and rural counties that Trump won.

William Frey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think the town was very lucky … the town is still here.

Port Hedland mayor Peter Carter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Following routine activity, multiple suspects hurled an explosive device towards IDF soldiers at town of Azzun.

The IDF

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That Austin is a Tex Mex town that historically has not had diversity until recently, for example, they like to claim breakfast tacos. Breakfast tacos did n’t come to That Austin until the ’80s. Meanwhile, in the ‘ 50s and earlier, they were being eaten in the Rio Grande Valley, on the border with Mexico City-style, and in San Antonio.

Courtesy José Ralat Ralat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’ve never seen anything like this, this was a very great small town, and now it’s gone.

Rolling Fork

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is about a community that no one had ever heard of before, becoming ground zero and a small town being destroyed overnight.

Misti Allison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are many people from the town or children of local natives who, like me, are born or live elsewhere but who every year return to San Severino and go up ngoppa u ’ paese viecchio( ‘ on the back of the ancient village ’) to find their origins and imagine what the life of their parents, uncles or grandparents could be like in the past, the attachment to the place is so strong for all the inhabitants( living in the new town) and those who have moved to other places for work, but whose heart belongs here.

Monica Gillocchi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Children’s National is higher Medicaid than most other children’s hospitals, but that’s because there’s no safety net hospital other than Children’s National in this town.

David Wessel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is the one road that leads into town, we are now an island.

Molly Watson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today, the corporate kingdom finally comes to an end, there’s a new sheriff in town and accountability will be the order of the day.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I thought with high inflation, people would go to town with their gift cards. but I was surprised.

Ted Rossman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I remember Katyuzhanka, because we brought a lot of bread and macaroni and some pasta sauce and batteries and there was a huge amount of people waiting. We gave out everything we had and we had to go back and bring more bread because more than half [of the] people didn’t get anything and they didn’t have a slice of bread in that town.

Yaryna Arieva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don’t feel safe in this town now. You took it away from me.

Jim Stewart

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The town now survives off of natural tourism, such as skiing, other services and overall the tourism that the train station brings.

Canfranc Fernando Sánchez Morales

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I believe the crux of this show is about humanity, in this show and in this world of Kingstown, we are watching people placed in very extreme circumstances, it’s a prison town and people make what comes across as dubious decisions. But, within this world, they actually make perfect sense.

Tobi Bamtefa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m interested in the ethical drift, I’m in interested in the desensitization of both the prisoners and the guards and the world, that’s the town I’m from. So it has, it leaves an impact and we just dive into it.

Hugh Dillon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There (were) two options: We either detonate those tanks, or they detonate themselves, yes, harmful chemicals went into the air. I am truly sorry, but that is the only option we had. If we didn’t do that, then they were going to blow up, and we were going to have shrapnel all across this town.

East Palestine Mayor Trent Conaway

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But, they should – because they’re the ones that screwed this up, they screwed up our town, they’re going to fix it. If they do n’t, I ’ll be the first one calling you back to do this all over again.

Mayor Trent Conaway

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have the village on my back, and I ’ll do whatever it takes … to make this right. I ’m not leaving, I ’m not going anywhere. This is my town. I ’m not going to sell my house. I ’m not going to move my kids out of the school. I ’m here to stay.

Mayor Trent Conaway

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are all excited for this town hall meeting, and it is just a slap in the face because the people who put us out are too afraid to show up to the meeting.

Nate Velez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I need help, i have the village on my back, and I ’ll do whatever it takes … to make this right. I ’m not leaving, I ’m not going anywhere. This is my town. I ’m not going to sell my house. I ’m not going to move my kids out of the school. I ’m here to stay.

Mayor Trent Conaway

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The railroad tracks divided the town by race. I was the proud daughter of Indian immigrants. Not Black, not White. I was different. But my mom would always say your job is not to focus on the differences but the similarities. And my parents reminded me and my siblings every day how blessed we were to live in America.

Nikki Haley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is not a small town, there are 1000 houses, and 7000 thousand people live here, of course, we are scared… if it was a little closer, it would have happened in the middle of our town.

Mehmet Kaman/Anadolu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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