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Example sentences for "precinct"

Lexicographically close words:
preche; preched; prechen; preching; precibus; precincts; precio; preciosity; precious; preciously
  1. This ancient precinct formerly contained the old church of the White Friars, a community known in full as Fratres Beatæ Mariæ de Mont Carmeli.

  2. He walked between the two green lamps of the precinct station and dumped his bag on the sergeant's desk.

  3. On his way to the 101st Precinct station house, the ears of Charles Orsino burned as he thought of the withering lecture that had followed the blast on Gilby's whistle.

  4. She said she had called the precinct station right after her stepfather hung up--which checked, as to time.

  5. You say that in her call to the precinct station Miss Blake had said she was too ill to go there.

  6. Covent Street, this city, in response to a telephone call that Miss Blake had made to the local precinct station.

  7. The readiness of the architect to encroach upon the precinct of the temple warrants the answer that the whole bastion was to be removed.

  8. Even the poros blocks where they encroached on the precinct appear to have been hacked away.

  9. A precinct wall ran west from the south-west corner of both the earlier and later Erechtheum.

  10. These county electoral boards would appoint judges for each precinct or voting place in the county.

  11. Whenever it would do no harm, a precinct was granted to the republicans for the sake of appearances.

  12. It goes without saying that the democrats always carried any and every precinct that they decided, and elections were mere farces.

  13. The number of white and the number of colored voters in each voting precinct was secured.

  14. Then the men of the lord's precinct may well wish for a court at their doors; they will be spared the long journey to the hundred court; they will settle their own affairs and be a law unto themselves.

  15. It is natural that the lord with soke should become a tax-gatherer, and he will gladly guarantee the taxes if thereby he can prevent the king's officers from entering his precinct and meddling with his justiciables.

  16. Before quitting the precinct of the primeval tradition discoverable in Homer, we have yet one very remarkable group of impersonations to consider, that in which the goddess Ἄτη is the leading figure.

  17. Herodotus says that every woman born in that country was obliged once in her {445} life to go and sit down in the precinct of Aphrodite, and there consort with a stranger.

  18. Among the North American Indians, Schoolcraft observes, "the lodge itself, with all its arrangements, is the precinct of the rule and government of the wife.

  19. This report is made to the local precinct or station, whence it is telephoned to police headquarters.

  20. The alarm was sent to the precinct station, and while the four policemen were following the burglars into the apartment houses, the reserves were hurrying to their assistance.

  21. Once reach that precinct and there fight your best, As looking back you wonder what has come Of daisy-dappled turf you danced across!

  22. Yes, I knew--but not with knowledge such as thrills me while I view Yonder precinct which henceforward holds and hides the Dear and True.

  23. And Joiada the high priest going out to the captains, and the chiefs of the army, said to them: Take her forth without the precinct of the temple, and when she is without let her be killed with the sword.

  24. And you shall compass him round about, having weapons in your hands: and if any man shall enter the precinct of the temple, let him be slain: and you shall be with the king, coming in and going out.

  25. But Joiada commanded the centurions that were over the army, and said to them: Have her forth without the precinct of the temple, and whosoever shall follow her, let him be slain with the sword.

  26. It formed a Precinct with its own Liberty.

  27. Sir Thomas Audley, who obtained the precinct by gift of the King, built a house upon it.

  28. It now stood within its precinct of eleven acres, possessed of its own courts, spiritual and temporal, its own law officers, and even its own prison.

  29. The police took the square from a mob by storm twice in my recollection, and the commander of the precinct then was hit on the head with a hammer by "his people" and laid out for dead.

  30. The two rival claimants were Thomas Cary, of the precinct of Pamlico, and William Glover, of Pasquotank.

  31. In secular as well as religious affairs, Perquimans precinct in those early days took an active part.

  32. She went to Cyprus, to Paphos, where her precinct is and fragrant altar, and passed into her sweet-smelling temple.

  33. The leases paid good interest, and eight years ago a new French hospital arose--away from the dingy old precinct of the Golden Acre.

  34. The desk was a rude, unpainted pine affair, and it reared itself on its four stilt-like legs in a corner of his kitchen, in his house in the South Precinct of Braintree.

  35. She had reached the North Precinct of Braintree by daylight.

  36. When she reached Captain Isaac Lovejoy's house, next to the Meeting House in the North Precinct of Braintree, stumbling blindly into the warm, lighted kitchen, the captain and the doctor could hardly believe their senses.

  37. He had started for the North Precinct early in the evening, his good wife said; he was called down to Captain Isaac Lovejoy's, the house next the North Precinct Meeting House.

  38. She never dreamed of such a thing as Ann's going to the North Precinct after the doctor, but that was what the daring girl had determined to do.

  39. She almost forgot her own sick little girl, for a few minutes, in trying to restore this brave child who had come from the South Precinct in this dreadful storm to save little Thirsey Wales' life.

  40. Straight along the road to the North Precinct she kept.

  41. For a long time that particular neighborhood has been troubled with bad Negroes, and the neighbors were complaining to the Sixth Precinct police about them.

  42. He was left where he fell, but later staggered to his feet and made his way to the third precinct station.

  43. Pierce was made a prisoner and hurried to the Sixth Precinct police station, where he was charged with shooting and wounding.

  44. At St. Charles Street Trenchard desisted, and, calling an empty ice wagon, threw the Negro into the body of the vehicle and ordered Officer Exnicios to take him to the Sixth Precinct station.

  45. The old man found his way to the Third Precinct police station, where it was found that he had received a ghastly wound in the abdomen.

  46. He was escorted to the Sixth Precinct station, where he was properly cared for.

  47. The volunteer police stationed at the Sixth Precinct had about five blocks to run before they arrived.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "precinct" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ambit; amphitheater; approach; approximation; archbishopric; area; arena; auditorium; background; bailiwick; beat; bishopric; border; borderland; borough; bowl; campus; canton; canvas; circle; circuit; circus; city; closeness; cockpit; commune; confines; county; course; demesne; department; diocese; district; domain; dominion; duchy; electorate; environs; field; floor; foreground; forum; gerrymander; government; ground; gymnasium; hall; hamlet; hemisphere; hundred; immediacy; jurisdiction; locale; magistracy; march; marketplace; mat; metropolis; milieu; neighborhood; orb; orbit; palaestra; pale; parish; pit; place; platform; precinct; principality; propinquity; province; proximity; purlieu; purlieus; quarter; range; realm; region; riding; ring; round; scene; scenery; section; sector; setting; shire; site; sphere; stadium; stage; stake; state; terrain; territory; theater; town; township; vicinity; village; walk; ward; riding; ring; round; scene; scenery; section; sector; setting; shire; site; sphere; stadium; stage; stake; state; terrain; territory; theater; town; township; vicinity; village; walk; ward