How to Use precinct in a Sentence

precinct

noun

• They were taken to the precinct for questioning.
• Voting results from several precincts are delayed.
• The team goes on a goose chase, and the precinct hosts an adoption day.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
• The precinct includes the Dome of the Rock, the four minarets, the compound’s historic gates and the mosque itself.
  — Ken Chitwood, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2023
• Back at the precinct, Vargas walked in and wasted no time on the niceties.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
• Shultz spent the night at the 9th precinct in Lower Manhattan.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 6 Jan. 2023
• The officer who launched the projectile is with the Cactus Park precinct and has been on the force for one year.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 27 May 2023
• One store that applied for a license, 3901 W. Market St., is in a dry precinct.
  — Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 4 Jan. 2024
• Bigley will play Rick, the former head of the Animal Control precinct.
  — Charna Flam, Variety, 6 Feb. 2023
• Each precinct becomes a node; if precincts share a border in real life, they are joined by an edge in the graph.
  — Mike Orcutt, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2023
• The next day, someone from the precinct called the children’s relatives and told them the arrest had been voided.
  — Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
• Between the hours of 3 a.m. and 7 a.m., a desk officer will no longer be stationed in the city’s police precincts.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2024
• His campaign was late to find delegates to speak for him at the precincts on caucus day.
  — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024
• Thomas also admitted this while being booked in the precinct by Krueger.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2023
• There are 1,670 precincts across Iowa that will be holding caucus meetings this evening.
  — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 16 Jan. 2024
• Most of the swing precincts are in suburbs north and southeast of Phoenix, in an arc roughly described by a beltway route known as Loop 101.
  — Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• Miami Township has a local liquor option on the ballot for one of the precincts.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 1 May 2023
• The suspect is known to the New York Police Department from previous arrests and is one of the top five burglars in the precinct, the source said.
  — John Miller, CNN, 19 Dec. 2022
• Almost 71%: The percentage of the majority-white precincts won by Vallas in the first round.
  — Nicholas Anastacio, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2023
• Nothing much past 1999 gets a mandate outside of the more outré precincts of the internet.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2023
• One precinct in nearby Byram had no ballots for two hours while a second had just 25 to 30 ballots and a long line of voters, the group said.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2023
• Around dawn that morning, Spiro, who’d received a call from a Hawks lawyer, appeared at the precinct to represent him.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Anchorage is the northern rim of Trenton, the center of Oxnard, the ocean-blind precincts of Daytona Beach.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
• And for good reason: Rum and George both are connected to Butler, and dropping their names at the precinct could be a death sentence.
  — Tod Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• The other officer, assigned to the South Mountain precinct, has been with the department for five years.
  — Joanna Jacobo Rivera, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2023
• Brown said he was taken to the police precinct before being released.
  — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 7 May 2023
• Even the precinct captain was in attendance, and there were laughs and conversation all around.
  — Jasmin Barmore, Detroit Free Press, 26 Jan. 2023
• Aides will dissect data like results from precincts and GOP turnout.
  — Selina Wang, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2024
• In his second bid for the council, Ortiz received had 30.40% of the vote with all precincts in Kane and Cook counties reporting.
  — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2023
• Some counties assign polling places to voters based on their voting precinct.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024