Definitions
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- noun As many people as a
town can hold.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Each one makes a sound like a whole townful of ravens in the country I come from.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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Each one makes a sound like a whole townful of ravens in the country I come from.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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Each one makes a sound like a whole townful of ravens in the country I come from.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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Soon the wee beasties come across a townful of unsuspecting humans, and hilarity ensues.
Archive 2008-01-01 Greg Tannahill 2008
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Soon the wee beasties come across a townful of unsuspecting humans, and hilarity ensues.
Aliens vs Predator Requiem Greg Tannahill 2008
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Spock must be at the end of his endurance, he thought, to admit dependence on a townful of frontier humans—to admit to the weakness of not knowing what to do.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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Spock must be at the end of his endurance, he thought, to admit dependence on a townful of frontier humans—to admit to the weakness of not knowing what to do.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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Trish could nearly imagine bonding to one human being, or two; never needing to guess the thoughts of a townful of people, each of them in control of a child's life.
Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995
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Every once in a while, perhaps from a sudden heart hunger, Frank would select from a whole townful of human beings some one soul for friendship.
Green Valley Katharine Reynolds
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I don't want to have to divide the profits with a whole townful of people.
Gossamer 1915 George A. Birmingham 1907
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