city hall
noun
1
: the chief administrative building of a city
2
a
: a municipal government
b
: city officialdom or bureaucracy
you can't fight city hall
Examples of city hall in a Sentence
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The New Haven Green, a seventeenth-century park, is bordered on one side by courthouses and modest government offices, including the distinctive striped façade of New Haven’s city hall.
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E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
Maks Chmerkovskiy & Peta Murgatroyd After secretly tying the knot in a small city hall ceremony in New York City, Maks Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd shared their love in front of family and friends with a wedding at Oheka Castle (just like Kevin and Danielle Jonas!).
—Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2023
The national undercurrents do not mean that the usual list of hot topics at city halls has changed.
—Bill Barrow, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2023
Amores said Maine State Police were planning to hold a news conference, likely at city hall, to update the public on Wednesday night.
—TIME, 26 Oct. 2023
The district said its five other air monitors will be installed throughout South County: one in the Tijuana River Valley and the remaining in San Ysidro and Imperial Beach, including at city hall.
—Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
Officials at city hall said the pilgrimage brings in more than $20 million a year, and businesspeople are clearly grateful.
—Jeffrey Gettleman Daniel Berehulak, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
As part of its yearlong commemoration of the civil rights movement of 1963, the City of Birmingham is now displaying a collection of Chris McNair’s photographs at city hall this month.
—Rebecca Griesbach | Rgriesbach@al.com, al, 14 Sep. 2023
Communities in middle Tennessee now lack local reporters covering things such as city hall, local policies, crime and other neighborhood issues.
—Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
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E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
Maks Chmerkovskiy & Peta Murgatroyd After secretly tying the knot in a small city hall ceremony in New York City, Maks Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd shared their love in front of family and friends with a wedding at Oheka Castle (just like Kevin and Danielle Jonas!).
—Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2023
The national undercurrents do not mean that the usual list of hot topics at city halls has changed.
—Bill Barrow, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2023
Amores said Maine State Police were planning to hold a news conference, likely at city hall, to update the public on Wednesday night.
—TIME, 26 Oct. 2023
The district said its five other air monitors will be installed throughout South County: one in the Tijuana River Valley and the remaining in San Ysidro and Imperial Beach, including at city hall.
—Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
Officials at city hall said the pilgrimage brings in more than $20 million a year, and businesspeople are clearly grateful.
—Jeffrey Gettleman Daniel Berehulak, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
As part of its yearlong commemoration of the civil rights movement of 1963, the City of Birmingham is now displaying a collection of Chris McNair’s photographs at city hall this month.
—Rebecca Griesbach | Rgriesbach@al.com, al, 14 Sep. 2023
Communities in middle Tennessee now lack local reporters covering things such as city hall, local policies, crime and other neighborhood issues.
—Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
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First Known Use
1603, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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city hall
noun1
: the main administrative building of a city
2
a
: a municipal government
b
: city officialdom or bureaucracy
you can't fight city hall
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