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
• The Chester Creek greenbelt trail had been closed off in the vicinity of the fire.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2022
• There’s a pair of them that always nest in the vicinity.
  — Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• The result there is going to be in the vicinity of -0.16.
  — William Baldwin, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• What are the best outdoor hikes or day trips in the vicinity?
  — Adam Weinberg For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 15 May 2022
• Get the ball in his vicinity and Robinson could go to work.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 31 Aug. 2022
• Today, the tidal flat is in the vicinity of King Street Station.
  — Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2022
• The Bestar beds can detach from the wall and injure people in the vicinity.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 21 Apr. 2022
• Police closed 8 Mile in the vicinity of the crash until 9 p.m., the spokeswoman said.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 18 Feb. 2022
• The fear is that a shell fired by Ukrainian forces in response to heavy rebel shelling from the vicinity of the plant might go astray.
  — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2022
• Natalie Morales: And is it … all units in the vicinity called in at that time?
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2024
• Not quite harsh or bitter enough to think it’s a dead animal in the vicinity of the tree.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 17 Mar. 2021
• Hundreds were in the vicinity when the SUV struck at least 67 people along the parade route.
  — Jim Riccioli, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2022
• The case will be handled by a court in the vicinity of Barcelona, where Shakira resides.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 29 July 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 bar isn't in the immediate vicinity of the Deer District, but is a part of the downtown bar scene.
  — Steven Martinez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2022
• Not quite revenge of the nerds, but somewhere in that vicinity.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2024
• This description places the new district in the vicinity of what is now Valley of the Moon Park.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2021
• The man was seen in the vicinity of where the bodies were found the day the Reids went missing, officials said.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 2 June 2022
• Most of the time the bouncer is not even allowing you anywhere in the vicinity.
  — Ashley Hume, Fox News, 17 Nov. 2024
• Turns out that the route to the Wharf conveniently runs south, in the vicinity of the Rayburn building.
  — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2021
• 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
• The suspect then grabs a cab to the vicinity of the Hilton Hotel where Thompson would later be killed.
  — Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
• Clark's group mate, Max Homa, and their caddies were also in the vicinity.
  — Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
• His approval ratings are in the same vicinity now as when Trump lost the 2020 election.
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2023
• In the event anybody in the rover’s vicinity calls out a hello, the mic will surely capture that, too.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 Mar. 2021
• They're trapped at airports, in the vicinity of airports, around Afghanistan.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 5 Sep. 2021
• There are thousands of oil wells in the vicinity (Figure 3).
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 3 Apr. 2021
• People in the vicinity, from boaters to a flight instructor and student flying nearby, worked to locate the pair, WVIT reported.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 3 June 2025
• At that point, it is removed, but in the meantime, the next generation of seedlings, germinated from its seeds, has matured in its vicinity.
  — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 10 May 2025