How to Use municipality in a Sentence

municipality

noun
  • This will be the first time in the history of the U.S. a municipality's offices will be closed in observance of Eid, Walid said.
    Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Drone footage recorded by Cheng Hwa, one of Pino’s students, the day of the June 2022 fires captures the municipality fighting what was in essence an oil fire.
    Julia Shipley, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The Court of Appeal remanded the case back to the county court and the city, stating that the municipality should conduct a new city review process.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Then, at 10 a.m. police were called to a car fire about 40 miles north, in the rural municipality of Cartier.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • In Lee County and the other four municipalities, their rating dropped to a 10 — a 0% discount.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Many states and municipalities have laws already on the books that build in more protections for workers.
    Chabeli Carrazana, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
  • This isn't the first year there has been more demand than supply for lifeguards, but across the country, states and municipalities are facing their worst shortages on record.
    Elise Preston, CBS News, 3 June 2023
  • Germany’s Wacken Open Air, one of the biggest heavy-metal festivals in the world, takes its name from a rural municipality in the far northwest of the country.
    Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Cannabis businesses must be approved by the municipality where the business is located and receive a license from the state.
    Adrienne Roberts, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2023
  • Elections are scheduled next year in more than 5,500 municipalities across Brazil, which a few dozen Aos Fatos fact checkers will monitor.
    Stuart A. Thompson, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • In some cases, those vendors may not have the correct municipality listed for the business address.
    Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Photos taken by the municipality showed the main library building gutted from the inside, with books scattered on a floor covered with debris and dust, and few shelves intact.
    Mohamad El Chamaa, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The center will focus on the three municipalities in an effort to improve services in an era of declining resources.
    Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 30 July 2023
  • So, many municipalities are trying to fill those spaces back up.
    Ciara O'Brien, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2023
  • But this marks its biggest expansion yet, adding 30 more towns and municipalities within the Texas metroplex.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Crosby’s not sure when other cities might join the Compact, or even if the capacity exists today to bring on more municipalities right now.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2023
  • Things marked 1 and 2 — and on rare occasion, 5 — are your best bets, experts told CNN, depending on what your municipality can handle.
    Martha Shade, CNN, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The municipality of Derna published statements on its website urging residents to evacuate the coastal areas for fear of a surge from the sea.
    Samy Magdy, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The firefighters came from the municipality of Cascais, a coastal city of two hundred and fifteen thousand people near Lisbon.
    Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Eight years later, cities and municipalities faced a second loss.
    The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2023
  • Each city, village and town in Wisconsin will set up dates and hours of in-person absentee voting for their municipality.
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Most municipalities have rules requiring pools and spas to be gated, but not all do—and some properties might not be compliant.
    Stefanie Waldek, House Beautiful, 9 May 2023
  • In late September, 55 of 62 municipalities there entered states of emergency due to the severe drought.
    Fabiano Maisonnave, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2023
  • From the iconic mountain municipalities of Colorado to the wintriest escapes in the Northeast, here's where to plan a stateside ski vacation.
    Kayleigh Kulp, Travel + Leisure, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Because of this, municipalities do not feel supported, the report states, and are turning to the Housing Department for answers.
    Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Photos shared on the municipality’s Twitter account showed rescue workers in action along with Quito’s mayor, Pabel Muñoz, present on the scene.
    David Chiu, Peoplemag, 7 July 2023
  • In its 2022 financial report released in July, the city, in a departure from the past, separated the sanitation fund from the fund for the day-to-day running of the municipality, called the general fund.
    Kayode Crown | Kcrown@al.com, al, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the county code required half of the hotel tax revenue collected within a district with a municipality to be spent within the same district.
    Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 17 Jan. 2024
  • According to the attorney general's office, the extension was made to give municipalities across the nation time to join.
    Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 6 May 2023
  • In the Everest region, for example, trekking guidelines and fees are decided by the municipality.
    Shikha Tripathi, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Mar. 2023

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