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
• Not so good, even at one of the casinos in the vicinity.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2020
• 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
• The station says a body, believed to be that of a 70-year-old man, was found in the vicinity.
  — CBS News, 24 Aug. 2020
• This seems to only last as long as HR is in the vicinity.
  — Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2021
• This is in the vicinity of the Village 14 project approved back in June.
  — Gustavo Solis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2020
• Today, the tidal flat is in the vicinity of King Street Station.
  — Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2022
• One of those good burns was in the vicinity of the grove’s star, the 3,000-year-old Stagg tree, the fifth-largest giant sequoia on record.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2020
• Norris said a full search of the area would be done to make sure no other weapons were in the vicinity.
  — Rebecca Boone, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2025
• 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
• The hunters learned that someone was logging in the vicinity.
  — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 26 June 2025
• 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
• Buckets were tougher to come by when either was in the vicinity.
  — oregonlive, 10 Dec. 2020
• 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
• The Enquirer has reached out to several businesses in the vicinity.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 27 July 2025
• The institute’s purchase of the Birkenstock property is its second major investment in the vicinity in little more than a year.
  — Richard Halstead, Mercury News, 31 July 2025