How to Use municipal in a Sentence

municipal

1 of 2 adjective

• To make matters worse, the municipal plows have come through and cleared the streets of eight inches of snow.
  — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Or Van Cortlandt Park, which is home to the oldest building in the Bronx and the first municipal golf course in the country.
  — Kareema Bee, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2023
• The 8-0 vote Monday afternoon amended the city’s municipal code to keep the beach closed year-round.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Tax-shifting ahead To be sure, the bedrock of most municipal finance is the property tax.
  — Joseph Mysak Jr., Fortune, 10 Feb. 2024
• This type of municipal battle will become far too common across the American West in the years to come.
  — Jeremy Anderberg, Longreads, 6 Sep. 2023
• This still makes for the largest municipal sanitation force in the country.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• That is far less than the 11% who said the same about their state government, and 8% who agreed with that statement about their municipal government.
  — Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
• For the offense, to which Mays pleaded guilty, a municipal judge ordered 90 days in jail plus two years of probation.
  — Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2024
• Over the course of the year, that equates to 93 percent of total municipal and industrial water use.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 29 Feb. 2024
• The number of video gambling establishments currently in the village was one of the topics in the municipal election in the spring.
  — Linda Girardi, Chicago Tribune, 27 July 2023
• Yet, like a municipal judge, a mayor can impose fines or sentence people to jail.
  — Samantha Sunne, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
• The person handling the civil side would be called municipal counsel.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023
• As envisioned by Power San Diego’s backers, the price tag would be paid through a municipal revenue bond.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2023
• The committee voted to amend the municipal code to require people to move their vehicle at least a half-mile away within three days to restart the 72-hour clock, instead of the one-tenth of a mile now in the law.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2023
• The resolution asks the Assembly for support in amending municipal rules to allow for sanctioned camps at five sites, all of them owned by the city.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2023
• City council attorney Michael Linder was there, along with every judge on the city’s municipal bench.
  — Margaret Kates | [e-mail], al, 21 Apr. 2023
• The resident received a summons for a municipal charge of discharge of a firearm, and the landlord was issued a summons for a municipal charge of theft.
  — Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 28 Mar. 2024
• Then in January, the Texas National Guard took over a municipal park, blocking border agents from the riverfront.
  — Ann E. Marimow, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
• Until a recent change in the law, municipal light plants did not have any clean energy requirements.
  — Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
• For avid hikers, South Mountain Park and Preserve is one of the country’s largest municipal parks and offers 58 miles of loops and trails that veer from leisurely strolls to adrenaline-pumping routes.
  — By sunset, Sunset Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• Becker said the city is doing its part and has reduced watering of municipal plants, among other measures.
  — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2023
• At noon that day, 400 years of Spanish rule over the island ceased, as the U.S. flag was raised in every military, insular, municipal and civil office.
  — Taína Caragol, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
• Should library officials refuse to move an item, their decision could be appealed to the local city council in the case of a municipal library, or quorum court in the case of a county library.
  — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 26 July 2023
• Check your city’s website for even more options such as municipal aquatic centers.
  — Norma Cavazos, Dallas News, 13 July 2023
• The high court voted 5-1 in support of the city, noting state law gives charter cities autonomy over issues of municipal concern.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2024
• That money would be directed to municipal programs for the prevention, treatment and control of drug abuse.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• So basically, in the municipal waste stream, somewhere between 30% and 40% of that waste is organic in nature.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
• However, that material is not enough to spread to beaches south of the municipal pier, where the shoreline has eroded to narrow strips of boulders and cobblestones.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
• Gaining even 10 mpg doesn't make much difference in a municipal budget.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 10 June 2023
• Instead, residents should dispose of these items at a municipal drop-off center or e-recycling site.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2024

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municipal

2 of 2 noun

• The result of the postponements of the May municipal and school elections would require the incumbents remain in office until the election in November and carry on as if nothing had changed.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2020
• Medical transport should be a public municipal service free at the point of use—like fire protection or street cleaning—and yet has instead become another industry on the take.
  — Adam Gaffney, New Republic, 6 June 2017
• The Ministry of Finance has a roundabout way to stop this discrepancy from causing widespread problems: prevent troubled local municipals from flooding the market with new notes.
  — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2019
• Last year, local governments issued 1.9 trillion yuan of project municipals.
  — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2019
• Many bonds, especially municipals, carry bid/asked price spreads for retail buyers.
  — Russ Wiles, azcentral, 4 Aug. 2019
• The result of the postponements of the May municipal and school elections would require the incumbents remain in office until the election in November and carry on as if nothing had changed.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2020
• Medical transport should be a public municipal service free at the point of use—like fire protection or street cleaning—and yet has instead become another industry on the take.
  — Adam Gaffney, New Republic, 6 June 2017
• The Ministry of Finance has a roundabout way to stop this discrepancy from causing widespread problems: prevent troubled local municipals from flooding the market with new notes.
  — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2019
• Last year, local governments issued 1.9 trillion yuan of project municipals.
  — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2019
• Many bonds, especially municipals, carry bid/asked price spreads for retail buyers.
  — Russ Wiles, azcentral, 4 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024