precinct

Example Sentences

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In June 2020 Mayor Jenny Durkan of Seattle described the occupied protest around her city’s east police precinct as “a summer of love.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

At a small shopping precinct in Rochdale, Greater Manchester is a pet shop called Amber Pets.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

This process created a rare island of higher ground in what is now the east/south-east section of the temple precinct.

From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2026

Sunday in front of 156 West 38 St. in the Midtown South precinct.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2025

A herd of reporters stampeded toward Hayes and Caputo, and then followed the cop cars and crime-scene vans on foot, shouting for attention as the police vehicles took off toward the precinct on West Eighty-second.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson