precinct
Example Sentences
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As these books show, good storytelling need never leave the precincts of realism.
But Ms. Machado led the opposition strategy to get out the vote and capture images of voter tally-sheets at each precinct at the end of the day.
Officers took him to a local precinct before transferring him to a police station more than 200 miles away in Nairobi.
As he sat down to face questions from the feds, his sentences traveled winding paths through vague precincts to fog-filled destinations.
From Los Angeles Times
In Sydney's historic Rocks precinct, a cobblestoned alleyway has been transformed into a winter wonderland for two weeks of Christmas in July markets, complete with fake snow machines churning specks of foam onto passersby.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
