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Example sentences for: district

How can you use “district” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The only thing that will save the district is more residents and more businesses able not only to pay more taxes, but to take a lively interest in how they are governed.
For one thing, the Houston school district didn't identify which students qualified for the program until August, by which time it was too late to enroll elsewhere for this year.
It claims the most luxurious shopping areas, the presidential Elysée Palace, the grands boulevards and financial district, but also, farther north, seamy Clichy and Pigalle, as well as hilly Montmartre, where modern art could be said to have begun.
Way back in 1890 he explained that concentrations of industry (yes, they existed before Silicon Valley--his prime example was the Sheffield cutlery district) can create a virtuous circle in which the availability of skilled labor, the presence of specialized suppliers, and the diffusion of knowledge . Increasing returns to consumption are probably less common, but can result among other things from "network externalities"--a bit of useful jargon for what happens when the usefulness of a product depends on how many other people possess something similar.
And then wraps up wondering, "Will it take the shooting of innocents in every congressional district before national lawmakers" do something?--as if all those shootings hadn't already happened.