Sentence examples for town of thousands from inspiring English sources

Image caption Every year for one day a whole town of thousands gets together to cover this massive mosque in Mali in mud as Alex Duval Smith & Nadia Zephinie report.

A town of thousands is today a town of hundreds, strewn with the abandoned villas of another age.

Once a town of thousands, it's now reduced to seven families nestled within the ruins of numerous abandoned houses.

A former Town of Oyster Bay employee, indicted Wednesday on charges of defrauding the town of millions of dollars in an illegal waste-disposal scheme, died today at Massapequa General Hospital in Seaford.

Drive north for 30 minutes and you come to Rovinj, a picturesque port with hilltop town of 13th and 14th-century streets packed with artists' studios and craft shops.

"Crystal Bridges Museum seems like a false front for Walmart, a made-in-America handicrafted artifact of idealism for a corporation that is none of the above". Just as bad, some of Walton's critics said, the art works were being spirited off to Bentonville, a town of twenty-eight thousand people whose main cultural attraction was the Walmart Visitor Center.

At Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, a busy drop-off point for marchers coming into town, tens of thousands of black men and youngsters arrived throughout the morning, in hundreds of buses, cars and vans.

And, it is, in a way, a sudden expansion of perception that Mary Sweeney gave the world by smashing windows across the little towns of 19th-century Wisconsin.

On the main square of the quiet town of Čapljina, hundreds of candles on the paving stones outside the pastel-shaded municipal building spell out one name: Praljak.

In the western Hungarian town of Bicske, hundreds of migrants refused to disembark from a train and transfer to a refugee camp.

Secret taverns hid inside the town houses of 52nd Street and behind facades in Greenwich Village, on just about every block.