How to Use county in a Sentence

county

noun

• Here's a look at where the time zone changes and which counties are in Central time.
  — Joyce Orlando, Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
• The last contract between the union and the county expired in 2021.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• The county has until the end of the month to count all the ballots and certify the result.
  — Angela Rodriguez, Sacramento Bee, 8 Mar. 2024
• The county could raise its current sales tax to 0.9%, while the city could pursue a 2% tax.
  — Tyler Katzenberger, Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2023
• So, no check has been written from the county to Amazon yet.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
• The district has owned the lodge since the 1990s, when the community held a fundraiser to purchase the building for the county.
  — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 3 Feb. 2024
• Bracy said the project would be more advantageous if the project was in a more rural area of the county.
  — Tracy Neal, arkansasonline.com, 21 Dec. 2023
• Sixty-one per cent of the county voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
  — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2023
• In some cases, the RNC joins with a state party to sue a state or county official.
  — USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2024
• Kleberg county is in south Texas and covers part of the eastern coast of the Mexican Gulf.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 20 Aug. 2023
• The Bronx has a high rate of premature deaths and ranks as the unhealthiest county in New York.
  — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2024
• Houston’s school was named for him and served as one of the first county training schools for African Americans in Texas.
  — Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Fortune, 19 June 2023
• The county has not disclosed the precise location where he was found.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
• The state instead relies on a fire council made up of already busy county fire chiefs.
  — Tomas Navia, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2023
• All the Quorum Court seats in Arkansas' 75 counties are up for election next year.
  — Mike Jones, arkansasonline.com, 16 Nov. 2023
• President Joe Biden won the majority of votes at the county and state levels in 2020.
  — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
• Average lengths of stay in the programs varied from county to county.
  — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 27 Feb. 2024
• The Quinto family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the county and is seeking to change the cause of death on his death certificate.
  — Samantha Young, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Police had known Dexter’s name, and hers, but failed to contact her, instead letting his body go unclaimed for months in the county morgue.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
• In 2018, coastal counties were home to a hundred and twenty-eight million people, or forty per cent of U.S. residents.
  — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
• In parts of the county, there were high and damaging winds, and in some places, near Vassar, for instance, quarter-inch size hail was reported.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2023
• The contentious county approval process included a five-hour public hearing in a packed courtroom in Laramie in 2021.
  — Mead Gruver, ajc, 21 June 2023
• The remaining 70-75% is pumped from groundwater sources throughout the county.
  — Scott Turner | [e-mail], al, 18 Aug. 2023
• Swanson said the suspect is being monitored while in the hospital and once discharged will be transferred to the county jail.
  — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2024
• If DeKalb voters approve a special sales tax this November, the county plans to expand its shelter, but that could take years.
  — Jim Gaines, ajc, 13 Sep. 2023
• New York City mainly saw rain, but counties to the north and west recorded double-digit snow totals by Sunday morning.
  — Steve Leblanc, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2024
• How deeply did prescription opioid pills flood your county?
  — Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• It could be increased though in the near future because the local government funding bill also allows the county to raise its sales tax by 0.4%.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2023
• Eleven are being held in the county’s juvenile detention center, and the 12th, a 12-year-old girl, was put on a home detention program.
  — cleveland, 27 July 2023
• But opponents — including some current students — warned the board that the Confederate names would brand the schools and their county as a haven for backward, racist thinking.
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 10 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024