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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Way of Water appears more likely to end its run somewhere in the vicinity of about $1.7 billion.
    Mark Hughes, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • By way of comparison, the agency says, a healthy, safer forest in the vicinity of roads and homes would have 17 such trees per acre.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
  • The fighting remains fierce in the vicinity as Ukrainian forces have dug in to resist the Russian assault.
    Tyler Hicks Gaëlle Girbes, New York Times, 30 June 2023
  • The trip soon turns into a nightmare as Mara’s daughter Lise disappears as a forest fire rages in the vicinity.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Even the landowner’s dog tested negative, and there weren’t any other signs of animals with plague in the vicinity.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 25 Sep. 2024

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