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
• There’s a pair of them that always nest in the vicinity.
  — Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• Today, the tidal flat is in the vicinity of King Street Station.
  — Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 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 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• Controls in the vicinity have also been tightened, the ministry said.
  — Jamey Keaten, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2022
• However, the cost of rent and the percentage of single people in the vicinity were much lower than in Tokyo.
  — Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• Arctic Command is still in contact with relevant ships in the vicinity, which could be able to help the cruise ship free.
  — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• Good places to head to in the vicinity include Cleary Summit, about 20 miles from Fairbanks, which is easy to get to, has good parking, and has a solid view of the horizon.
  — Jamie Carter, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2023
• But Fernandez said in a follow up phone call that five were found to be most in need, but others in the vicinity will be able to apply as well.
  — Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2024
• Members of the attacking 4th and 5th Texas regiments were in the vicinity.
  — Phil Gast, CNN, 9 Feb. 2023
• The big whitetail stayed in the vicinity, however, and with its core area located, the brothers hung two stands to catch the buck exiting his bed in the evenings.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
• Because of the comet’s vicinity to the sun, however, sky watchers will need to work hard to spot it—the comet will be visible close to the horizon around dawn or dusk.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2023
• People in the vicinity are being asked to make sure children and pets remain inside.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 1 June 2023
• Sometimes the Coyotes lucked out as a Dallas player wasn’t in the vicinity or couldn’t handle it cleanly.
  — Peter Warren, Dallas News, 21 Jan. 2023
• Muñoz said no one was inside the building when crews arrived, and no one in the vicinity was evacuated.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
• The hull is sealed and watertight, so as to avoid any risk of water getting into the battery and zapping anything in the vicinity.
  — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
• Two cellphones that plummeted from the aircraft also were found in the vicinity.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
• Use a garden hose and nozzle to thoroughly dampen plants in the vicinity.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2023
• Dozens of residents trooped to the vicinity where some of the injured were being treated in ambulances.
  — TIME, 17 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024