How to Use redistrict in a Sentence

redistrict

verb
  • The town was redistricted last year.
  • No one wants to have to redistrict, and the perfect time to have done so was when schools were closing.
    Pat Stoetzer, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Each state must redistrict every decade, based on the census.
    Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
  • For a state to redistrict its congressional seats again in the middle of the decade was almost unheard of.
    Richard Pildes, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The decision in this case will likely set the path for redistricting in 2020 and beyond.
    Washington Post, 19 June 2017
  • Our children were redistricted to what was considered the worst high school in the county.
    baltimoresun.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • No high school students were redistricted at that time.
    Jess Nocera, baltimoresun.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • With the elimination of Aylesworth, the district plans to redistrict to rebalance school and class sizes throughout the district.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2025
  • The move will allot enough time to redistrict the students to other schools following the Thanksgiving break.
    Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The school board will ultimately decide how or whether to redistrict, as required by state law.
    Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Months of work Betker said that redistricting the city to accommodate nine aldermen could take months of work.
    Darryl Enriquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2018
  • More populous states must redistrict their U.S. House seats.
    James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The solution is to take redistricting out of the hands of politicians and use a computer program to create the districts, with the minimum length of the district boundaries being the goal.
    WSJ, 5 Apr. 2018
  • When this happens, most states redistrict not only for Congress but for their own legislative offices as well.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • All of their posts followed the same formula, framing the desire to redistrict as a response to Democrats' gerrymandering in blue states.
    Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 19 Aug. 2025
  • In that scenario, Towson-area students would be redistricted to other schools.
    Libby Solomon, baltimoresun.com, 13 July 2018
  • Just wait: Kentucky Republicans will redistrict Yarmuth’s base in Louisville into pizza slices, attaching a tiny piece of blue to many more red seats.
    Steve Mulroy, The New Republic, 8 July 2019
  • In a later House committee, bills to redistrict that chamber and the Kentucky Supreme Court also advanced by nearly party-line votes.
    Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Texas is so heavily Republican and redistricted that most races are won in the primaries.
    The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
  • States usually redistrict early in each decade after the census count.
    Larry Kaplow, NPR, 18 Aug. 2025
  • School board members have said that politics and the timing of elections are not supposed to be considered when deciding how to redistrict.
    Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Dec. 2021
  • If the court will find a state’s redistricting efforts so infected with partisan bias that it must be thrown out, something the justices have never done before.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 3 May 2018
  • Students would be redistricted, likely to nearby schools including Forrest Dale, which is a little more than a mile away.
    Emma Kate Fittes, Indianapolis Star, 24 May 2018
  • More lawsuits are likely, as Republicans say the court is not authorised to redistrict all by itself.
    The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Assemblyman John McKeon, who proposed the amendment, said the state won't get high-quality census data in time to redistrict.
    Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 2 Sep. 2020
  • The plan would also redistrict 142 students from their current schools to the remaining five elementary school buildings.
    Peter Marteka, Courant Community, 7 July 2017
  • The same day as the veto, 5,000 angry West Texans met in the town of Sweetwater and drafted resolutions calling for a breakup unless the legislature redistricted the state and built the college.
    Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 2 Mar. 2017
  • The same day as the veto, 5,000 angry West Texans met in the town of Sweetwater and drafted resolutions calling for a breakup unless the legislature redistricted the state and built the college.
    Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 2 Mar. 2017
  • Texas’s decision to redistrict its lines has also started a domino effect, prompting other red and blue states to consider redrawing their own lines in the middle of the decade.
    Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 30 July 2025
  • As outlined in the Supreme Court ruling in the 1962 Baker v. Carr case, states have to redistrict every ten years in a way that keeps up with population shifts and keeps every district roughly equal in population.
    Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2017

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