How to Use precinct in a Sentence

precinct

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  • They were taken to the precinct for questioning.
  • Voting results from several precincts are delayed.
  • Scroll over the map below to the vote in each precinct.
    — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 5 May 2022
  • The team goes on a goose chase, and the precinct hosts an adoption day.
    — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Scroll over the map below to see the vote in each precinct.
    — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The shootings occurred in the 12th precinct on the city's north side.
    — Sarah Raza, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The precinct includes the Dome of the Rock, the four minarets, the compound’s historic gates and the mosque itself.
    — Ken Chitwood, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Now his precinct is a camera well next to the Mets’ dugout.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Back at the precinct, Vargas walked in and wasted no time on the niceties.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Shultz spent the night at the 9th precinct in Lower Manhattan.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Have lived in your precinct for at least 30 days before the next election.
    — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 22 July 2024
  • David Mack was killed near her home, not far from a police precinct.
    — Leda Alvim, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The state’s three Trumpiest politicians all lost the precinct.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The bodies of two dismembered women have been found in the precinct this year alone.
    — Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2022
  • The officer who launched the projectile is with the Cactus Park precinct and has been on the force for one year.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 27 May 2023
  • One store that applied for a license, 3901 W. Market St., is in a dry precinct.
    — Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Bigley will play Rick, the former head of the Animal Control precinct.
    — Charna Flam, Variety, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Each precinct becomes a node; if precincts share a border in real life, they are joined by an edge in the graph.
    — Mike Orcutt, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2023
  • There are a total of about 400 scanners in the county, with at least two in every precinct.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 18 May 2022
  • The next day, someone from the precinct called the children’s relatives and told them the arrest had been voided.
    — Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Between the hours of 3 a.m. and 7 a.m., a desk officer will no longer be stationed in the city’s police precincts.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • His campaign was late to find delegates to speak for him at the precincts on caucus day.
    — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024
  • She was taken to a precinct for questioning and deprived of food and water for over 12 hours, the suit states.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The first digit in each precinct represents the ward in which it is located.
    — I.c. Murrell, Arkansas Online, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Thomas also admitted this while being booked in the precinct by Krueger.
    — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The school called the police, and Davon was handcuffed and eventually taken to a precinct.
    — Abigail Kramer, ProPublica, 17 Nov. 2022
  • There are 1,670 precincts across Iowa that will be holding caucus meetings this evening.
    — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • But otherwise, downtown was a stodgy precinct of banks, law offices and not much else.
    — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Each precinct is now supposed to hand count the total number of ballots cast to see if the figure matches the machine count.
    — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Because of the county’s staggered voting system, voters in one precinct won’t be able to vote for six years.
    — Bethany Blankley | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 Oct. 2024

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