What is "locals"

Usage examples of "locals".

Diem seemed to be doing everything possible to disguise this visit from the locals, just as the Emergents should expect.

The locals called this route the Pride of Accord, and the Royal Family had never dared complain.

The locals made some of their living by outside trade, but they worked hard on their mountain garden.

They had seriously miscalculated, thinking the locals would be at a much higher level of technology by the time of their arrival.

If they succeeded, each operation would be a little miracle, salvation that the locals could not provide for themselves.

There was no traffic on the road, and as they walked and ran north, they confronted only a few other locals, who paid them little heed, despite their now filthy garments.

Even though there was no footpath on the bridge, the locals were using the rail bed and pipeline supports as a way to transit the river.

Samir purchased one for Newman and he drank it as the locals did warm.

Astor shook the hands of the composer and several of his gang, most of them ordinary locals with an interest in culture, before retiring to his box with the score and another cup of coffee.

She gets a word in on my behalf when the locals start speaking Gaelic.

It was a place that looked more than capable of resisting the best efforts of warlike locals to get rid of their overlords.

The occasion served to show to the locals that even if the estate had been taken over by an invader from south of the border, he was fairly okay for an Englishman.

He wondered if the locals were desperate enough to poach sacks of cement or timber.

Winterlance, was now Marshal of Westwind, and undisputed ruler of that chunk of the Westhorns known as the Roof of the World-a land so high and cold that very few of the locals could survive more than short stretches outside in full winter.

A handful of newer guards, led by Murkassa, one of the first locals to seek out Westwind, walked swiftly down from the canyon that held livestock and mounts, but they were several hundred paces up the road from the smithy.