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.
  • But Lopez the Florist is in one of the precincts Trump won.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • This is not the first fight over the contours of Holmes' precinct.
    — Fredreka Schouten, CNN, 8 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • That was the era when a police precinct in the Bronx was known as Fort Apache.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 May 2021
  • Back at the precinct, Vargas walked in and wasted no time on the niceties.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Williams also threw a box on top of a fire near the entrance of the precinct.
    — Andy Mannix, Star Tribune, 19 June 2021
  • In Danny's last scene in the precinct, Amelia thanks him for saving her.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Shultz spent the night at the 9th precinct in Lower Manhattan.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Police said that the suspect was transferred to a precinct in the city of Drammen, about 25 miles to the east.
    — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • One of the Arizona laws says that a ballot cast in the wrong precinct will not be counted.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 1 July 2021
  • The other law canceled all votes cast in person at the wrong precinct.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2021
  • Terry and Boyle will stay in the precinct and rely on each other.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Trump won the Springfield-area precincts by slightly more than 50%.
    — Maria Ramirez Uribe and Amy Sherman, Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
  • That's when Chloe shows up at the precinct to review Reiben's files, and there's Ghost Dan, too, looking on.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The state’s three Trumpiest politicians all lost the precinct.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Now, the party nomination rests in the hands of a few dozen precinct chairs.
    — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Vicosa served as a sergeant in the Catonsville precinct as recently as 2019.
    — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The Police Bureau’s mobile precinct parked across the street from the market.
    — oregonlive, 22 July 2021
  • 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 calls for throwing out legal ballots that were cast in the wrong precinct.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021

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