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Example sentences for "locals"

Lexicographically close words:
localizations; localize; localized; localizing; locally; locanda; locate; located; locates; locating
  1. As the shocky-haired locals dashed out into the open space they were given a lusty cheer by the majority of the assembled spectators.

  2. Stone; and, ere the line of the locals seemed fully formed, Sage began barking the signal.

  3. He saw the exultant, confident Barville team, with the ball in its possession, tearing to pieces the defence of the locals in a manner that promised disaster for Oakdale.

  4. An end run that netted thirty yards was followed by a trick play that yielded ten more, and then came a forward pass which placed the locals within striking distance of the enemy’s goal.

  5. The home crowd went wild over this apparently demoralizing attack of the Oakdale boys, and there were many who, forming a hasty judgment, declared their conviction that the locals outclassed the visitors.

  6. Stanley Gibbons catalogues and presumably sells a number of the Chinese locals which are not collected by wise philatelists.

  7. When the Federation itself fails as a peacemaker, it cannot be expected that locals will escape these controversies.

  8. The local union is the oldest labor organization, and a few existing locals can trace their origin as far back as the decade preceding the Civil War.

  9. He wrote locals and editorials and helped with the advertising, drawing for this the munificent salary of fifteen dollars a week, which should have kept him like a prince; but it did not--though what he did with his money no one knew.

  10. But writing locals someway didn't appeal to her.

  11. Valets and subaltern officers soon found the way to promotion.

  12. Le Feuillade ran about like a madman, tearing his hair, and incapable of giving any order.

  13. Madame Cantin was their agent; and I know people who have seen letters of hers in which she assured Maulevrier, in the strongest terms, that he might ever reckon on the Duchess.

  14. Orleans prohibited his servants to mention their suspicions, and this anecdote would never have been known, had it not been told by the gentleman himself, penetrated with confusion and gratitude.

  15. During the battle this latter was missed, and could nowhere be found.

  16. One day the Marechale de Coeuvres came to see him, apparently on some message of reconciliation.

  17. Rochefoucauld know what had happened to his books: it may well be believed that he also was astonished.

  18. Both were very poor--and always dangled about the Court, where they had many powerful friends.

  19. Prince was too good a courtier to fail in obeying this order, and never afterwards troubled Rose in the least thing; but, on the contrary, made all the advances towards a reconciliation.

  20. He shut the door upon her; barricaded her within, and through the door quarrelled with her, even to abuse, for an hour, during which she had the patience to remain there without being able to see him.

  21. At the Cardinal's death my father had returned to the Court and was in greater favour than ever.

  22. The locals live in the water, Joe thought, they don't fight it.

  23. The prices were good; the locals were cheerful; it was a good deal for everyone.

  24. He would leap to his feet mightily pleased, as the crowd screamed and the locals bent over laughing.

  25. If the locals are in doubt, they will ask anything in order to hear you speak--in a few words they know how long you've been around.

  26. When that inning was over the locals had reduced the lead of Mechanicsburg to one run; and they fully anticipated wiping that slight advantage out in the next round.

  27. That inning the locals did a little batting on their own account, with the result that the score looked a shade better, for it was three to six when once more Scranton went into the field.

  28. An error, together with two fair hits, put a couple of the locals on the bases.

  29. She ardently advocates mixed locals for all.

  30. Those trade-union women who advocate mixed locals for every trade which embraces both men and women are of two types.

  31. Many locals formed with so much thought and after so much pains, drop to pieces after a few months or a year or two.

  32. The various locals coöperate with and support one another.

  33. From experience gained during these gigantic industrial wars, the National League has laid down definite conditions under which its locals may coöperate with unions in time of strike.

  34. Some of the women's locals existed for a good many years, but a large proportion are recorded as having lapsed or suspended after one or two years.

  35. The girl hat-trimmers, under the leadership of Melinda Scott, of Newark and New York, have during the last ten years improved both wages and conditions and have besides increased their numbers and aided in forming new locals in other centers.

  36. One group of unions, older than any of these, dating back to 1885, are the locals of the hat trimmers.

  37. Outside of New York there are locals in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut.

  38. All the locals of the United Metal Workers were so empowered.

  39. The writer is unable to find any complete list of the "individual" locals belonging to the I.

  40. The Shermanites also claimed to have chartered ten locals (outside the W.

  41. The number of locals in the organization was but slightly, if any, greater.

  42. The "decentralist agitation" first assumed definite form at a conference of the Pacific Coast locals of the I.

  43. The Company started off with the organization of forty-six Locals instead of the twenty which the Act called for and the construction of forty-two elevators was rushed.

  44. In Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta the Provincial Associations with their many Locals were in a flourishing condition.

  45. The surplus earnings of the Central are distributed to the Locals which have invested capital in their Central, such distribution being made in proportion to the amount of business done with the Central by the respective Locals.

  46. At the annual convention of the Manitoba locals he was made Secretary of the Provincial Association, a position which he filled until 1916, when he became Secretary of the Canadian Council of Agriculture.

  47. The Central sells to organized Locals only, they in turn selling to their members.

  48. Skeptics who had been holding out now enrolled with their local association and, as fast as they could be handled, new locals were being formed.

  49. The moment the ball came again into the possession of the locals they retained it and resumed their rushing tactics.

  50. Right on top of this the locals were penalized for holding, but the rising courage of the visitors was dampened when the home team pulled off a handsome forward pass that yielded double the distance needed.

  51. In the darkest moment, however, with the locals beating Oakdale back against the goal-line, Fred Merwin fumbled.

  52. Twenty-five yards from the line, however, the locals stood firm.

  53. One day Hammy came stalkin' in to where me an' Locals was playin' guess.

  54. I had been corralin' a heap o' city langwidge since I had been cooped up with Locals an' Hammy, but my heart failed me.

  55. I promised Locals an' Hammy a generous rake-off, an' we fixed to have a tol'able fair time as soon as I cashed in.

  56. Suddenly Locals gave a yell of joy and shouted, "My fortune's made!

  57. Hammy owed me ten million francs an' Locals was into me for fifteen.

  58. Artie wasn't around, but Locals an' Hammy was, so I opened the letter an' read it.

  59. I had fallen too far to have any breath left for talkin'; but Hammy an' Locals unbosomed their hearts something terrible.

  60. His original idea was to set up a hulling plant and hull the nuts and then buy the walnuts from the locals after they were dried.

  61. There were a lot of them going to waste all over the county due to the fact that most of our locals up there are kind of lazy.

  62. It seems that one of the suburban locals that took Cassatt to his country home up the main line was halted one night by an unfriendly signal.

  63. Again did Hendrix start in to dazzle the locals with an exhibition of his wonderfully puzzling curves and drops.

  64. Then came the turn of the locals in the field.

  65. It has three locals in Pittsburgh and it has been allied with other labor organizations and represented in central labor bodies, but it is yet rather weak.

  66. Pittsburgh has some thirty locals of the latter alone, each with a list of from forty to 300 members.

  67. Suddenly he realized that it was the poor devils of locals whom Valkanhayn and Spasso had enslaved.

  68. There was no warning; Khepera had lost electricity and radio and telegraph, and the spread of news was at the speed of one of the beasts the locals insisted on calling horses.

  69. The story the locals told our brethren of the Fairdealer was that the Honest Horris was landed beside Burrik's ship for ten days, when two other ships came in.

  70. And the locals won't give you any trouble.

  71. On decivilized planets that were visited by Space Vikings, the locals picked up bits and scraps of technology very quickly.

  72. After a while, it dawned on the locals that the tokens could also be used for trading among themselves; money seemed to have been one of the adjuncts of civilization that had been lost along Tanith's downward path.

  73. He could still see where the landing legs of the ships had pressed into the ground, but the locals said they had not been back.

  74. The locals wouldn't have learned enough for that in the five years since I was here.

  75. We got a big gang of locals working for us--" The city was familiar, from Otto Harkaman's descriptions and from the pictures Vann Larch had painted during the long jump from Gram.

  76. He said so, ordered a couple of the locals to collect Rathmore's luggage, and got him into a hall-car, taking him down to his living quarters.

  77. He claimed to be from Skathi; the locals there have a few ships, the Space Vikings had a base on Skathi about a hundred or so years ago.

  78. It was, however, a place where a ship could be set down, and there were women, and the locals had not lost the art of distillation, and made potent liquors.

  79. The locals were just digging themselves out of it when I landed.

  80. They'll let down on a village, run the locals out, gather up what's around and bring it here.

  81. The locals spoke Lingua Terra of a sort, like every descendant of the race that had gone out from the Sol system in the Third Century, but it was a barely comprehensible sort.

  82. Tis Private Cantle of the Locals and his wife Keziar, down at Bloom's-End--who else should it be!

  83. The private of the Locals and his wife hastily retreat by the light of the flaming beacon, under which the purple rotundities of the heath show like bronze, and the pits like the eye-sockets of a skull.

  84. Illustration] Still farther than the unaccredited locals from a strictly legitimate postal collection are the numerous labels issued by the several railroads.

  85. That he was right in his judgment concerning the locals was proven by the fact that the infielders resumed their regular positions, while the outfielders fell back a little.

  86. Meanwhile, Rodney Grant was doing some steady, clever pitching for Oakdale, which, with perfect support, would have prevented the locals from gathering a single tally.

  87. Yes, I've gone through a good deal; but nothing ever came amiss to me after I joined the Locals in four.

  88. The storm, however, perversely held off, and the locals found Grant too much for them in the last of the fourth.

  89. The attempted sacrifice had been turned into a miserable failure solely because the locals had known precisely what their opponents would try to do.

  90. In the last of the eighth, with one man gone, the locals finally took Hooker's measure and began batting him to all quarters of the field.

  91. While the locals were practicing Eliot called Grant and Springer aside, giving each a ball.

  92. This is our last chance, boys," said Eliot, as the locals gathered at the bench.

  93. He says he has the main telecast station, in the big building the locals call the Citadel.


  94. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "locals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.