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• The precinct is about ten minutes’ walk, straight ahead, so you can’t miss it.From the entry walk
• Assigned to the riverfront precinct for years, he pounded a beat of backstreets and dockyards.From the entry pound a beat
• The demonstrators tried to create an autonomous zone around the precincts, like CHAZ in Seattle.2021 June 22, Isabella Khademhosseini, “Portland’s tourist boss takes a full page of the New York Times admitting that a rioted city has…. From the entry Chaz
• While some Republicans, especially in the country’s reddest precincts, are delighted about the prospect of Mr.2020 November 18, Richard Fausset, Jonathan Martin, “In Georgia, a Republican Feud With Trump at the Center”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry soon-to-be
• I got out my phone and pulled up the number for the precinct.2020, Cari Z, His Holiday Crush, Entangled Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry LoJack
• Studies have narrowed the territorial focus to signage used in specific cities, townships, suburbs, precincts, etc.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual…. From the entry territorial
• Migdals or towers, part of temple precincts, were places of refuge.2014, Simcha Jacobovici, Barrie Wilson, The Lost Gospel, →ISBN. From the entry migdal
• Without the precinct money, you don't have poll-watchers and they can get away with anything.1988, Michael Royko, Boss, page 102. From the entry precinct money
• The growling circumambient toils of London around them fadedbefore the calm of these innocent precincts.1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 517. From the entry circumambient
• You can't make a move till you have about a year in a precinct, but tell you what, stay in touch.2012, Robert Cea, No Lights, No Sirens: The Corruption and Redemption of an Inner City Cop, page 61. From the entry solid
• They ignored men outside the premises of the school, but within its protective precincts they indulged in a bit of Adam-teasing.2006, Prabhaker Acharya, The Suragi Tree, page 208. From the entry Adam-teasing
• Rick would comment on the fact that he'd never had such bad coffee, not even the mud at his precinct.2002, Mark Lawson, And They Rose Up: Days of Retribution. From the entry stale
• Moreover, Ku-shan precinct is noted as the fishing area, and all the transportation businesses and companies are located in this precinct.1975, Chien-chung Yin, MIGRATION AND VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS IN RURAL AND URBAN TAIWAN: A STUDY OF GROUP ADAPTIVE STRATEGIES IN SOCIAL…. From the entry Ku-shan
• Above the concourse, and connected with it by stairs and escalators, will be shopping precincts and an entertainment centre.1964 April, “News and Comment: New Street to be completely rebuilt”, in Modern Railways, page 222. From the entry shopping precinct
• Whoa!" "Ring up the precinct about her.1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN. From the entry B-drinker
• If you are familiar with your Paris you will recall the narrow, forbidding precincts of the Rue Maule.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “What Happened in the Rue Maule”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt…. From the entry berth
• In the nineteen-fifties, the height of aspirational style was fine French furniture—F.F.F., as it became known in certain precincts of Fifth Avenue and Palm Beach.2022 July 18, Evan Osnos, “The Haves and the Have-Yachts”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2022. From the entry height
• Association was built into the structure of communal government in the City's wardmotes and precinct meetings and in the open vestries of many suburban parishes.2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 121. From the entry wardmote
• Baltimore's politics was based on election-day walk-around money, handed over with a sly wink by the precinct bosses, ensuring everybody got out the neighborhood vote.2008, Michael Olesker, The Colts' Baltimore, page 6. From the entry walk-around money
• It also puts up what it calls precinct money, the small bankroll a worker carries and spends on election day and the few days before.1976, William Allison Shimer, American Scholar, page 356. From the entry precinct money
• A new kind of urban regeneration is needed at the scale of precincts, rather than lot by lot, to transform the greyfields into more liveable and sustainable suburbs.2022 July 28, Peter Newman, Giles Thomson, Peter Newton, Stephen Glackin, “Greening the greyfields: how to renew our suburbs for more…. From the entry greyfield
• A plan to take back all so-called precinct parking permits from auxiliary officers first came to light in a Feb. 1 Police Department memo to all precincts.2008 March 6, Al Baker, “Auxiliary Police See Parking Permit Cut as an Insult”, in New York Times. From the entry departmentwide
• "Holy" used sarcastically to illustrate that Orientals are unfortunately popular not only on the "White left", but also in some precincts of the "White right" as well.2002 April 23, National Front, “Thoughtcrime II: April 23, 2002”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet), retrieved 15 Feb 2022. From the entry Nordicentric
• The notion that life in Harvard's upper echelons might be as back-stabby as life in the backwater small-town precincts of Florida never seems to have crossed the filmmakers' minds.1995 February 15, Peter Rainer, “Movie Review: Talented Cast Bogged Down in Mystery Thriller 'Cause'”, in Los Angeles Times. From the entry back-stabby
• Studies have narrowed the territorial focus to signage used in specific cities, townships, suburbs, precincts, etc., in the grounds of schools, called ‘schoolscapes’, in shopping centres, and other localised areas.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual…. From the entry schoolscape

Meaning of precinct

1. noun An enclosed space having defined limits, normally marked by walls.
2. noun The general area surrounding a place, environs.
3. noun A pedestrianized and uncovered shopping area.

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How do you use precinct in a sentence?

Precinct is used as a noun. For example: “The precinct is about ten minutes’ walk, straight ahead, so you can’t miss it.”

What is a short sentence with precinct?

“Whoa!" "Ring up the precinct about her.”

What does precinct mean?

Precinct means an enclosed space having defined limits, normally marked by walls.