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How to use borough in a sentence

26 example sentences · noun

Borough means a town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights. Example: “A local government district with borough status in Lancashire, the City of Preston.”

More sentences with borough

  • A local government district with borough status in Lancashire, the City of Preston.From the entry Preston
  • A unitary authority and borough (Reading Borough Council) in Berkshire.From the entry reading
  • New York's borough of Brooklyn and Kings County are coterminous.From the entry coterminous
  • The New York County District Attorney only has jurisdiction in Manhattan; each of the five boroughs of New York City elects its own DA.From the entry New York
  • However, Delta and Omicron variants had increased fitness within the borough.2024, Ryan Forster, Anthony Griffen, Johanna Daily, Libusha Kelly, “Community level variability in Bronx COVID-19 hospitalizations…. From the entry Iota variant
  • If it had not been a weekend, the borough would have been quieter.2017, William Hunter, Sanction, […], →ISBN, page 47. From the entry nuts to butts
  • The eighth constituency incorporates the Wunshan district and ten boroughs in the Zhongzheng district.2014, Pei-Chun Lin, Tai Chiu Edwin Cheng, “ELECTORATE REDISTRICTING FOR A SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICT PLURALITY, TWO-BALLOT VOTING SYSTEM…. From the entry Wunshan
  • “From the council people to the borough presidents to the citywide electeds, it would have an impact.2008 June 5, Diane Cardwell, “A Public Job Still Appeals to Bloomberg”, in New York Times. From the entry elected
  • Of the surplus the bulk was invested, and an oddment swept into the borough fund.1974, Francis Hill, chapter 3, in Victorian Lincoln, Cambridge University Press, page 48. From the entry oddment
  • In the dozen “pot walloper” boroughs, inhabitant households not on poor relief could vote.1968, Carl B. Cone, The English Jacobins, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 33. From the entry pot-walloper
  • Boroughs like Manhattan and Brooklyn are so big, I could pop someone and disappear like a fart in the wind.2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry fart in the wind
  • These were further subdivided into the nonethnically defined districts (rayon), cities, city boroughs, and settlements (posyolki), and villages (syola).2006, Tomila Lankina, Governing the Locals, →ISBN. From the entry nonethnically
  • No, for us the borough was so densely urban that the notion of “land” or “sea” never arose.2003, Floyd Skloot, “Counteracting the Powers of Darkness”, in In the Shadow of Memory (American Lives), Lincoln, Neb.; London: University…. From the entry core memory
  • Your vehicle is illegally parked in the borough of Manhattan.1997 21 September, Ian Maxtone-Graham, "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson", episode 9-1 of The Simpsons, 00:11:46-00:11:59. From the entry malparkage
  • Youth rules the borough and age is ousted from office.1937 April 29, The Brooklyn Citizen, volume C, number 101, Brooklyn, N.Y., page one, column 5. From the entry juvenocracy
  • Water-pillar fountains have recently been installed in several Lancashire boroughs for supplying water to steam motor wagons and tractors.1916 August 1, “Motor-Wagons, Tractors and Carriages”, in Farm Implement and Machinery Review, page 446. From the entry water pillar
  • After the Games, the Park will remain protected, serving as a green lung for the surrounding boroughs and the Olympic Village residential area.2007, United Nations Environment Programme, Beijing 2008 Olympic games: an environmental review, page 74. From the entry green lung
  • It remains the forgotten borough; even the success of the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan did not remove the island’s seemingly impenetrable veneer of hiplessness.2007 October 7, Cara Buckley, “Bohemia by the Bay”, in New York Times. From the entry hiplessness
  • On New Year's day our borough witnessed a parade of the fantasticals — the immediate body guard of the lately elected redoubtable Col.1991, Charles E. Welch, Oh! Dem Golden Slippers: The Story of the Philadelphia Mummers, page 29. From the entry fantastical
  • “We will be hard at work rolling out this program throughout the five boroughs, keeping our public realm clean, safe and enjoyable for all New Yorkers.”2026 April 17, “Mayor Mamdani Takes Major Step Toward Citywide Trash Containerization, Announces Six New Districts”, in NYC.gov, archived…. From the entry hard at work
  • But now cuppings at independent cafes like Joe attract connoisseurs who wouldn’t be caught dead sipping an overroasted blend and regularly travel to another borough for superior beans.2008 May 29, Hannah Wallace, “Do I Detect a Hint of ... Joe?”, in New York Times. From the entry overroast
  • Outside the metropolitan areas most councils (English and Welsh counties, London boroughs, Scottish and Welsh unitaries, and Northern Ireland districts) are now elected en bloc every four years.2005, John Greenwood, Robert Pyper, David Wilson, New Public Administration in Britain. From the entry unitary
  • Jamie Oliver prepares a "pukka" picnic of strawberries, champagne and lobster for a sail through the royal borough of Windsor on his mate's splashy new motorboat.2003, TV Guide, volume 51, page 146. From the entry pukka
  • He'd assumed that the Hollow Head's dartists would all come from the area around the pub, or at least from somewhere in the borough of Cowden.2003, Mat Coward, In and Out, page 31. From the entry dartist
  • The proposers of countyhood for the Bronx are either unintelligent or insincere when they say that the autonomy of that borough would separate it from Tammany Hall.1911 December 8, “Countyhood for the Bronx”, in The New York Times. From the entry countyhood
  • Just Space also provided support to Tower Hamlets Tenants Federation (THTF) to deliver a programme of events on community planning aimed at Tenants and Residents Associations (TRAs) in the borough.2014, Robin Brown, Michael Edwards, Richard Lee, “Just Space: towards a just, sustainable London”, in Rob Imree, Loretta Lees, editors…. From the entry tra

Meaning of borough

  1. noun A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
  2. noun An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.
  3. noun An administrative unit of a city which, under most circumstances according to state or national law, would be considered a larger or more powerful entity.

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Questions about borough in a sentence

How do you use borough in a sentence?
Borough is used as a noun. For example: “A local government district with borough status in Lancashire, the City of Preston.”
What is a short sentence with borough?
“A unitary authority and borough (Reading Borough Council) in Berkshire.”
What does borough mean?
Borough means a town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.

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