"village" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The factions are not making war on each other now, but they are terrorizing civilians, driving them from their villages.
- Many say they long to go home but fear they will be kidnapped, tortured or killed by the same soldiers who drove them from their villages.
- These are often described in terms of'push-pull' factors, the 'push'being those that drive migrants from their villages, while the 'pull'attract them to the city.
- It is believed that the tribes were driven from their villages and some were hunted by slave catchers.
- The working people were driven from their villages and herded in factory towns.
- Gunmen have driven countless people from their villages and seized or burned their homes.
- Driven from their ruined villages, they wandered through a war zone to resettlement camps and, for the lucky ones, to safety.
- Hundreds of families driven into Basilan's cities from their villages now feel secure enough to return home.
- The Shasta Costa were "driven from their villages" by miners in the 1850s.
- Here in Amritsar, eight Hindu families were staying at a religious guest house after being driven from their villages.
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