How to Use precinct in a Sentence

precinct

noun

• They were taken to the precinct for questioning.
• Voting results from several precincts are delayed.
• She was taken to a precinct for questioning and deprived of food and water for over 12 hours, the suit states.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN, 23 Mar. 2022
• Yudin had been loaded onto a police bus, and, with many other people, he was taken to a precinct on the outskirts of the city.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2022
• O’Malley has since been promoted and now heads a precinct in midtown Manhattan.
  — Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 4 Feb. 2022
• The parliamentary precinct is paralyzed and so is the political class.
  — Andrew Cohen, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
• Results of the previous election from every precinct would be gathered months ahead, then meticulously compared with the votes rolling in on election night.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2022
• They had been sent by the city to install new signs above Chinatown’s police call boxes (a quick way to reach a local police precinct in an era before cellphones).
  — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2022
• The owner of a local gas station was killed in middle of the day in the parking lot of a bank, even though the bank is surrounded on two sides by a Columbus police department precinct.
  — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2022
• Time is dedicated to understanding the culture of the local precinct, filled with officers who openly mock Leon’s law-and-order machismo.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Back at the precinct, Vargas walked in and wasted no time on the niceties.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
• Shultz spent the night at the 9th precinct in Lower Manhattan.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 6 Jan. 2023
• Have lived in your precinct for at least 30 days before the next election.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 22 July 2024
• The state’s three Trumpiest politicians all lost the precinct.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
• 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 store that applied for a license, 3901 W. Market St., is in a dry precinct.
  — Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 4 Jan. 2024
• Bigley will play Rick, the former head of the Animal Control precinct.
  — Charna Flam, Variety, 6 Feb. 2023
• Each precinct becomes a node; if precincts share a border in real life, they are joined by an edge in the graph.
  — Mike Orcutt, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2023
• There are a total of about 400 scanners in the county, with at least two in every precinct.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 18 May 2022
• The next day, someone from the precinct called the children’s relatives and told them the arrest had been voided.
  — Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
• Between the hours of 3 a.m. and 7 a.m., a desk officer will no longer be stationed in the city’s police precincts.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2024
• Sheriff's deputies will be at early voting locations and Election Day precincts, along with local police and school resource officers.
  — Sophia Cai, Axios, 20 Sep. 2024
• The rule approved Friday mandates the poll manager and two poll officers in each precinct each count the number of paper ballots in each ballot box to compare with the total generated by the ballot scanner.
  — Sam Gringlas, NPR, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024