Sentence examples for distinct towns from inspiring English sources

The present city and metropolitan borough also embrace several formerly distinct towns.

Brooklyn had been a scattering of districts -- Midwood, Bushwick, New Lots, Flatlands -- all of them distinct towns a century before.

Outside the city of Manchester, distinct town-based identities and residual loyalties to the historic counties of Cheshire and Lancashire remain.

Until the 18th century Nancy was composed of two distinct fortified towns.

Lents, which was originally a farming community that was annexed to Portland in 1912, was until the early seventies a blue-collar neighborhood of single-family homes, with its own commercial center and a distinct, small-town character.

In those days the place had a distinct mid-town Manhattan swish and flair to it, but now it has become shabby in a way that I find entirely congenial – no Trumpery at all, with an atmosphere rather like that of one of London's less salubrious gentlemen's clubs.

Here the words "rural landscape" refer to rural and countryside, as distinct from town, as they have done in the English language for over 400 years (according to the Oxford English Dictionary).

*Geographically distinct cities and towns.

Massachusetts consists of 351 geographically distinct cities and towns (referred to as communities).

Setting 19 Massachusetts communities (geographically distinct cities and towns) with at least five fatal opioid overdoses in each of the years 2004 to 2006.

Secaucus's housing is divided into two distinct communities: the town proper, consisting mainly of 1950's and 1960's single- and two-family houses in the northern third of town, and Harmon Cove, a gated condominium community built in the 1980's along the Hackensack River, the town's eastern boundary.