How to Use vicinity in a Sentence

vicinity

noun

• The tiles date to the 1930s, and many houses in the vicinity used them.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• The Chester Creek greenbelt trail had been closed off in the vicinity of the fire.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2022
• There’s a pair of them that always nest in the vicinity.
  — Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• What are the best outdoor hikes or day trips in the vicinity?
  — Adam Weinberg For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 15 May 2022
• Get the ball in his vicinity and Robinson could go to work.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 31 Aug. 2022
• Today, the tidal flat is in the vicinity of King Street Station.
  — Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2022
• The Bestar beds can detach from the wall and injure people in the vicinity.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 21 Apr. 2022
• Police closed 8 Mile in the vicinity of the crash until 9 p.m., the spokeswoman said.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 18 Feb. 2022
• The fear is that a shell fired by Ukrainian forces in response to heavy rebel shelling from the vicinity of the plant might go astray.
  — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2022
• Hundreds were in the vicinity when the SUV struck at least 67 people along the parade route.
  — Jim Riccioli, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2022
• The case will be handled by a court in the vicinity of Barcelona, where Shakira resides.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 29 July 2022
• At its peak, in the tenth and eleventh centuries, about forty thousand people lived in the vicinity.
  — David Treuer, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
• The bar isn't in the immediate vicinity of the Deer District, but is a part of the downtown bar scene.
  — Steven Martinez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2022
• Not quite revenge of the nerds, but somewhere in that vicinity.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2024
• The man was seen in the vicinity of where the bodies were found the day the Reids went missing, officials said.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 2 June 2022
• The number of trees of various heights in the vicinity indicates how long he’s been in the game.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023
• His approval ratings are in the same vicinity now as when Trump lost the 2020 election.
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2023
• Plus, a number of art galleries, restaurants and high-end shops are in the vicinity.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 6 May 2024
• The following day, West spotted the president at the front of a group of racers in the same vicinity.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
• The same applies to cars: The average vehicle in the US is now somewhere in the vicinity of 12 years.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2023
• The budget is reported to have been in the vicinity of $200 million.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022
• The shooting happened in the vicinity of the 1000 block of K Street in downtown Sacramento.
  — Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2022
• Shannon said there was no sign of lightning in the vicinity when the fire started at 1 p.m. Monday.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 3 Jan. 2023
• Madison is closed in both directions in the vicinity at this time.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 12 June 2023
• Towns are in the vicinity of State Highway 49, which runs north-south about an hour east of Sacramento.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
• Roads will be closed in the vicinity and will reopen at 3 p.m. For a list of road closures and times, and for details on the parade, visit irishamericanparade.com.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2023
• The body of a dead man was found Sunday in an underground drainage tunnel in Live Oak — the second to be found in the vicinity in about three weeks.
  — Michelle Del Rey, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Oct. 2022
• The deaths occurred in the vicinity of Highway 99, a major north-south route for the Central Valley, which was flooded by the storm.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
• Mind-controlling parasites are not new to the animal world, but what makes E. muscae stand out is how effectively the fungus spreads in its vicinity.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
• Cold dark matter wouldn’t interact with anything except via gravity, so the gravitational influence of the black holes should kick it out of the vicinity well before the black holes reach the final parsec.
  — Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024