Examples of locale in a Sentence
They chose a tropical island as the locale for their wedding.
the locale of the story
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The locations aren’t just picturesque settings for action but part of the subject—as if the film were both a fictional drama and a documentary about the locale.
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 20 June 2025
The powerful in Hollywood seem terrified of the potential for everyday Americans — in cities, in rural locales, and everywhere in between — to be radicalized by our world.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2025
This season of Paradise was filmed at a new locale in Costa Rica.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025
The action’s now set in lower Manhattan’s Five Points in the 1850s, a hotbed of crime and anti-immigrant sentiment (the same locale as the muddily inspirational Paradise Square).
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 13 June 2025
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 20 June 2025
The powerful in Hollywood seem terrified of the potential for everyday Americans — in cities, in rural locales, and everywhere in between — to be radicalized by our world.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2025
This season of Paradise was filmed at a new locale in Costa Rica.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025
The action’s now set in lower Manhattan’s Five Points in the 1850s, a hotbed of crime and anti-immigrant sentiment (the same locale as the muddily inspirational Paradise Square).
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 13 June 2025
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“Locale.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/locale. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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locale
noun
lo·cale
lō-ˈkal 
: a place where something happens or is supposed to happen
the locale of the accident
the locale of a play
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