How to Use vicinity in a Sentence

vicinity

noun

• The tiles date to the 1930s, and many houses in the vicinity used them.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• The Chester Creek greenbelt trail had been closed off in the vicinity of the fire.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2022
• There’s a pair of them that always nest in the vicinity.
  — Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• What are the best outdoor hikes or day trips in the vicinity?
  — Adam Weinberg For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 15 May 2022
• Get the ball in his vicinity and Robinson could go to work.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 31 Aug. 2022
• Today, the tidal flat is in the vicinity of King Street Station.
  — Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2022
• The Bestar beds can detach from the wall and injure people in the vicinity.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 21 Apr. 2022
• Hundreds were in the vicinity when the SUV struck at least 67 people along the parade route.
  — Jim Riccioli, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2022
• The case will be handled by a court in the vicinity of Barcelona, where Shakira resides.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 29 July 2022
• At its peak, in the tenth and eleventh centuries, about forty thousand people lived in the vicinity.
  — David Treuer, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
• The bar isn't in the immediate vicinity of the Deer District, but is a part of the downtown bar scene.
  — Steven Martinez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2022
• Not quite revenge of the nerds, but somewhere in that vicinity.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2024
• The man was seen in the vicinity of where the bodies were found the day the Reids went missing, officials said.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 2 June 2022
• The number of trees of various heights in the vicinity indicates how long he’s been in the game.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023
• His approval ratings are in the same vicinity now as when Trump lost the 2020 election.
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2023
• Plus, a number of art galleries, restaurants and high-end shops are in the vicinity.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 6 May 2024
• The following day, West spotted the president at the front of a group of racers in the same vicinity.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
• The same applies to cars: The average vehicle in the US is now somewhere in the vicinity of 12 years.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2023
• The budget is reported to have been in the vicinity of $200 million.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022
• The shooting happened in the vicinity of the 1000 block of K Street in downtown Sacramento.
  — Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2022
• Shannon said there was no sign of lightning in the vicinity when the fire started at 1 p.m. Monday.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 3 Jan. 2023
• Madison is closed in both directions in the vicinity at this time.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 12 June 2023
• Towns are in the vicinity of State Highway 49, which runs north-south about an hour east of Sacramento.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
• Roads will be closed in the vicinity and will reopen at 3 p.m. For a list of road closures and times, and for details on the parade, visit irishamericanparade.com.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2023
• The body of a dead man was found Sunday in an underground drainage tunnel in Live Oak — the second to be found in the vicinity in about three weeks.
  — Michelle Del Rey, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Oct. 2022
• The deaths occurred in the vicinity of Highway 99, a major north-south route for the Central Valley, which was flooded by the storm.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
• Patrol officers were in the vicinity around the time of the shooting, Krotki said.
  — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 2 Apr. 2024
• To just be in the vicinity of a guy who has this wealth of knowledge, that’s almost as important as anything.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2022
• In the second quarter of the Browns’ loss to the Cincinnati Bengals, Watson fell to the ground with no player in his vicinity after receiving the ball from the center.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 23 Oct. 2024
• Capitol Hill residents, who had the Jan. 6 riot in their backyard, will see a bigger security perimeter for the certification of votes, which will impact how people move around that day — and even schedules for five schools in the vicinity.
  — Cuneyt Dil, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024