How to Use precinct in a Sentence

precinct

noun
  • They were taken to the precinct for questioning.
  • Voting results from several precincts are delayed.
  • Scroll over the map below to the vote in each precinct.
    Zachary Smith, cleveland, 5 May 2022
  • The team goes on a goose chase, and the precinct hosts an adoption day.
    Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Scroll over the map below to see the vote in each precinct.
    Zachary Smith, cleveland, 9 Nov. 2022
  • This is not the first fight over the contours of Holmes' precinct.
    Fredreka Schouten, CNN, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The shootings occurred in the 12th precinct on the city's north side.
    Sarah Raza, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The precinct includes the Dome of the Rock, the four minarets, the compound’s historic gates and the mosque itself.
    Ken Chitwood, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Now his precinct is a camera well next to the Mets’ dugout.
    David Waldstein, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Back at the precinct, Vargas walked in and wasted no time on the niceties.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Shultz spent the night at the 9th precinct in Lower Manhattan.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Have lived in your precinct for at least 30 days before the next election.
    Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 22 July 2024
  • David Mack was killed near her home, not far from a police precinct.
    Leda Alvim, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The state’s three Trumpiest politicians all lost the precinct.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Now, the party nomination rests in the hands of a few dozen precinct chairs.
    Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Vicosa served as a sergeant in the Catonsville precinct as recently as 2019.
    Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The bodies of two dismembered women have been found in the precinct this year alone.
    Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2022
  • The officer who launched the projectile is with the Cactus Park precinct and has been on the force for one year.
    Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 27 May 2023
  • One store that applied for a license, 3901 W. Market St., is in a dry precinct.
    Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Bigley will play Rick, the former head of the Animal Control precinct.
    Charna Flam, Variety, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Each precinct becomes a node; if precincts share a border in real life, they are joined by an edge in the graph.
    Mike Orcutt, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2023
  • There are a total of about 400 scanners in the county, with at least two in every precinct.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 18 May 2022
  • The next day, someone from the precinct called the children’s relatives and told them the arrest had been voided.
    Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Between the hours of 3 a.m. and 7 a.m., a desk officer will no longer be stationed in the city’s police precincts.
    Emma Colton, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • His campaign was late to find delegates to speak for him at the precincts on caucus day.
    Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Wu also won the Dorchester precinct where Essaibi George and Walsh grew up.
    BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The local police precinct got involved, and a resident even deployed a drone to search for the cause of the sound.
    Caroline Spivack, Curbed, 8 Dec. 2021
  • She was taken to a precinct for questioning and deprived of food and water for over 12 hours, the suit states.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 23 Mar. 2022
  • At this time, CBS News has confirmed that at least 21 of these threats were on active voting precincts.
    Layla Ferris, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • As of Tuesday night all Marion County precincts had reported results.
    Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Nov. 2024

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