How to Use locality in a Sentence

locality

noun
  • The plant has only been found in one locality.
  • Tax cuts will take effect in a number of states and localities on the first day of 2025.
    Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Maybe the delta variant of Covid-19 has made their locality a hot spot.
    Claire Rutkowski, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The revenue would be evenly split between the state and the locality where it is sold.
    Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The Booker bill leaves most of this up to localities to figure out.
    Dylan Matthews, Vox, 20 Apr. 2018
  • On most of these days there are more people in the piazza than live in the locality.
    Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Observed with prayer, the date is decided by locality and is tied to the new moon, which is on Dec. 14 this year.
    Joan Rusek, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The mother of another boy from the same locality said her son still had pain in his limbs.
    Aarefa Johari, Quartz, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The locality of the book has people looking for themselves in the story.
    Joan Hunt, Courant Community, 19 June 2018
  • The family moved back to Tripoli in 1973, eventually settling in a locality to the west of the city.
    Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
  • But some localities will fly a green flag to indicate that the water is safe.
    Li Cohen, CBS News, 13 June 2024
  • The latest viewpoint to be furnished with a sign is in the locality of Anacapri on the popular tourist island of Capri.
    Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Unlike many East Coast cities, West Coast localities tend not to have right-to-shelter laws.
    Adam Rogers, WIRED, 21 June 2018
  • In the Babiya Hills of Kutch, lignite mines have dumped waste rock on key localities for early whale fossils.
    Sanjay Kumar, Science | AAAS, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The new rules would apply to the next round of housing plans, which Bay Area localities must finalize by 2031.
    Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
  • The locality that will probate the estate is likely unique as well.
    Randy Warren, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Fairfax is so far the only locality in the Washington region to head down the same path.
    Washington Post, 27 July 2021
  • Cities also could use the money for renovations, so long as the localities first win the bid to host the major event.
    Chrissie Thompson, Cincinnati.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • And regions that have yet to obtain station stops for their localities are pining for a piece of the action.
    David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The change was meant to make marijuana sale the standard across the state unless a locality takes action to block it.
    Tyler Arnold, Washington Examiner, 25 Jan. 2021
  • So that's going to give most people a chance to vote somewhere near their locality.
    Kerry Picket, Washington Examiner, 6 Apr. 2021
  • At stake: the extent of limits that localities can place on gun owners.
    Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Despite this, Amazon has spent the past year going to localities around the country and asking for even more tax breaks.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The ruling was a body blow to localities in the West where homelessness has been exploding.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Alexandria raced to become the first locality in the commonwealth to opt into the practice.
    Teo Armus, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
  • States and localities would lose more than $29 billion in tax revenue.
    Jamelle Bouie, The Mercury News, 9 Oct. 2024
  • This technique has revealed fossils from fish, sharks, frogs and more in this locality.
    Shaena Montanari, The Arizona Republic, 4 Nov. 2020
  • The locality where the stadium is built would have the option to give the team a break on local taxes, which would not apply toward the $300 million cap.
    Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
  • Some localities have different wage tiers depending on the size of the company.
    Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The fossil fuel industry faces dozens of lawsuits filed by states and localities accusing companies of misleading the public about the risks of climate change.
    Michael Copley, NPR, 24 Jan. 2025

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