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
• Police said that the suspect was transferred to a precinct in the city of Drammen, about 25 miles to the east.
  — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
• 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
• Terry and Boyle will stay in the precinct and rely on each other.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2021
• That's when Chloe shows up at the precinct to review Reiben's files, and there's Ghost Dan, too, looking on.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2021
• 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 Police Bureau’s mobile precinct parked across the street from the market.
  — oregonlive, 22 July 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
• As a blackout descends on the city, Amy’s water breaks, but the members of the precinct are scattered all over the city.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2021
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• An electronic poll book at each precinct shows whether voters have already cast a ballot.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2024
• There are plenty of other places to choose your role models, from schools to firehouses to precincts to military branches, to parents, husbands, wives, children, spouses.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 25 Jan 2025