How to Use municipality in a Sentence

municipality

noun
  • He was struck by how the municipality did not have a comprehensive database of what needed to be fixed.
    Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Instead, the district would work with the municipality on what to do with the property.
    Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Boston is the only municipality in the state that does not elect its School Committee.
    Julian E.j. Sorapuru, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The South County municipality switched from city-wide elections to a by-district system in April.
    Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • National City is the latest municipality in the county to approve rental protections for mobile home park tenants.
    Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The boy and his family, who were present at the time of the shooting, are Mexican and from the municipality.
    Julia Reinstein, ABC News, 29 July 2024
  • Bonaire, an island municipality of the Netherlands, is off the coast of Venezuela.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 29 May 2024
  • This will be the first time in the history of the U.S. a municipality's offices will be closed in observance of Eid, Walid said.
    Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Drone footage recorded by Cheng Hwa, one of Pino’s students, the day of the June 2022 fires captures the municipality fighting what was in essence an oil fire.
    Julia Shipley, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The Court of Appeal remanded the case back to the county court and the city, stating that the municipality should conduct a new city review process.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Then, at 10 a.m. police were called to a car fire about 40 miles north, in the rural municipality of Cartier.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • That came after the time when both were the same municipality, Cumminsville.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 26 Dec. 2022
  • In Lee County and the other four municipalities, their rating dropped to a 10 — a 0% discount.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Many states and municipalities have laws already on the books that build in more protections for workers.
    Chabeli Carrazana, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
  • This isn't the first year there has been more demand than supply for lifeguards, but across the country, states and municipalities are facing their worst shortages on record.
    Elise Preston, CBS News, 3 June 2023
  • Late last year, the local municipality tagged Navi Mumbai as Flamingo City, putting up statues of the bird on streets and painting murals on walls.
    Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Recently, the Netherlands has launched a pilot program for cannabis sales in the municipalities of Tilburg and Breda.
    Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Germany’s Wacken Open Air, one of the biggest heavy-metal festivals in the world, takes its name from a rural municipality in the far northwest of the country.
    Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 13 Sep. 2023
  • In spring, cut up the tree and dispose of it through your municipality’s landscape waste disposal program.
    Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Cannabis businesses must be approved by the municipality where the business is located and receive a license from the state.
    Adrienne Roberts, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2023
  • Elections are scheduled next year in more than 5,500 municipalities across Brazil, which a few dozen Aos Fatos fact checkers will monitor.
    Stuart A. Thompson, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The local Wörth municipality in Austria, where the event had been held, announced the permanent end of the gathering earlier this year.
    Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 5 Mar. 2023
  • In some cases, those vendors may not have the correct municipality listed for the business address.
    Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Heads of local municipalities in the north fear that without government action many families will choose to leave the region for good.
    Amos Harel, Foreign Affairs, 23 July 2024
  • Photos taken by the municipality showed the main library building gutted from the inside, with books scattered on a floor covered with debris and dust, and few shelves intact.
    Mohamad El Chamaa, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The excise tax would have been used to help fund local municipalities, the court system, public schools, substance abuse treatment and the state's general revenue fund.
    CBS News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The center will focus on the three municipalities in an effort to improve services in an era of declining resources.
    Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 30 July 2023
  • So, many municipalities are trying to fill those spaces back up.
    Ciara O'Brien, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2023
  • After fleeing away from hospital but being unable to memorize lines, he gets fired from his work as minor roles at TV series and then at a municipality theater.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The ballot measure does not prescribe municipalities' criteria for accepting or rejecting requests.
    Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 7 Oct. 2024

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