How to Use bailiwick in a Sentence

bailiwick

noun

• And so that's within their bailiwick to deal with that issue and the people of New York.
  — CBS News, 14 Mar. 2021
• The Scripture says to feed the widows and the orphans and take care of those who can't take care themselves, and that is Skip Rutherford's bailiwick.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 27 June 2021
• This gets into the business of insurance products, and that is the bailiwick of agents and brokers.
  — Amy Goldstein, Washington Post, 10 July 2018
• Whether that’s within their bailiwick is a point of disagreement.
  — Debbie Kelley, The Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2017
• Brodeur is chairman of the House's budget committee on health care, so any of these bills would likely have to go through his bailiwick.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• So the Hoosiers just have to find an inside receiver who can make up for some of the playmaking in space that has been Philyor’s bailiwick.
  — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Apr. 2021
• These are usually the bailiwick of young players who’ve flown under the radar, not 13-year veterans.
  — Michael Beller, SI.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• Her bailiwick as a child was the violin, but her stage act also included singing, dancing and even an escape-artistry act.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2020
• Never mind that these were issues that fell squarely within the bailiwick of the agency’s Wage and Hour Division, where Weil had served in the past and was nominated to head again.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
• Their bailiwick now includes how Muslims should act on social media.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2018
• His bailiwick is seamy realism, walking the edge of soft-core as lowlife exploiter Larry Clark did with Kids, but never transcending it.
  — Armond White, National Review, 29 Dec. 2021
• Fact-checkers did not always have such an expansive bailiwick.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 8 Jan. 2020
• Being outside of his bailiwick Lewis seemed to be under some misimpressions.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2012
• In theory, orchestrating an action plan after this report would be right in the cyber czar’s bailiwick.
  — Derek Hawkins, Washington Post, 30 May 2018
• Fortunately for Henderson, a large portion of the account was directed to the corporate-and-financial team, which was outside Bell’s bailiwick.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 25 May 2018
• The Senate bill reauthorizing the FAA keeps air traffic control operations within the agency’s bailiwick.
  — Washington Post, 27 June 2017
• As for this past holiday season, one category that did well was smart home products, not typically Home Depot's bailiwick.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2020
• Reardon's usual focus is on using data from pulsar timing arrays to search for nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves, so magnets are a bit out of his bailiwick.
  — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 26 May 2020
• The Tide's previous defensive coordinators had expertise coaching the secondary, which just so happens to be Saban's bailiwick, too.
  — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• In light of what Nintendo seems to be illustrating, that there is appetite for a consumer device that preserves the higher-end console experience on the go, would Sony ever revisit a once formidable bailiwick?
  — Matt Peckham, Time, 5 June 2017
• In shutting down the Abbott plant, the FDA was acting from a zero-risk mentality in its own bailiwick—protecting infant formula from factory contamination—with zero regard for costs and risks that would be somebody else’s problem.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 25 May 2022
• Although Rabbi Shteinman was also esteemed as a great sage, his unofficial bailiwick was promoting lifelong Torah study by adult men, upholding standards of the yeshivas and finessing political dealings with the Israeli government.
  — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2017
• Weaver’s bailiwick has been Republican candidates whose greatest interest seems to be criticizing other Republicans.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 22 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024