How to Use city hall in a Sentence

city hall

noun
  • Activists held a rally about eight blocks from the clinic that stands across the street from city hall.
    Nicole Chavez, CNN, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The trolley will pick up tour goers on the north side of city hall, behind the fire department.
    cleveland, 2 Sep. 2021
  • And everyone in New York fanned out to head downtown, head to the hospitals, head to city hall, police departments.
    Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Both candidates agreed on many issues, such as corruption being a problem at city hall and climate change as being a serious issue.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The big picture: Bills are coming due at city hall for inflationary costs and rising salaries as federal pandemic relief funds sunset at the end of this year.
    Kyle Stokes, Axios, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Voters in the Cactus, Sahuaro and Yucca districts will decide who will be their representative at city hall for the next four years.
    Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2024
  • After-hours, use the drop box next to the front door of city hall.
    cleveland, 27 Feb. 2022
  • The portion of 20th Street in front of city hall will be blocked all day.
    Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 2 July 2023
  • The students stopped across the street from the city hall building.
    Shannon Rae Green, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Dana Afana is the Detroit city hall reporter for the Free Press.
    Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2022
  • The mayor, Yuriy Bova, wanted to show me the city hall.
    Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
  • The property lies due north of the building that held the city hall of Bethel Heights.
    Laurinda Joenks, Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The shop is only a short drive from the old city hall, the white office building where Mr. Shaw fought.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2023
  • On Thursday, the city of San Jose honored the team by raising the Quakes’ flag at city hall.
    Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
  • On March 3rd, a group of Ukrainian soldiers raised the country’s flag in front of city hall.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The city's main fire station and city hall were demolished by the storm, O'Nan said.
    Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The police dragged Colvin off the bus, then slapped handcuffs on her and drove her to the local jail at city hall.
    Brian Lyman, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2021
  • This year, the neighborhood city hall provides a small grandstand on one side of the court.
    Catherine Porter James Hill, New York Times, 25 July 2023
  • This in itself is a good thing, to keep watch on the legislature and city hall.
    Subramaniam Vincent, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • That means everything from schools to DMV offices to courts and city halls will be shut down for the day.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Images from the scene showed a bullet-riddled city hall.
    BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Then, starting on the steps of city hall in San Francisco on May 1, Wardian hit the road.
    Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 1 July 2022
  • The woman walked away, towards the city hall lot, to defuse the situation, but the man followed.
    cleveland, 14 June 2022
  • Two shops selling vapes were located on the city’s bustling main street, less than a block from city hall.
    Nicholas Florko, STAT, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The city was flooded with angry calls and protesters camped out in front of city hall.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
  • And that that’s just one component of his plan to modernize city hall.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 14 Apr. 2022
  • In June, a Pride flag hanging outside of a city hall building in Tempe, Ariz., was taken down and burned.
    Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Chicago’s police union and city hall have been locked in a feud over the city’s vaccine mandate for weeks.
    Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The council is scheduled to hold the special meeting 6 p.m. Monday at city hall.
    Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 29 July 2022
  • Fedorov, who had gone to his office at city hall, was informed about the pullout by phone.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022

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