Example sentences for: precincts

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

  • This pair of romantic provincials came from a hardscrabble rural gynocracy, and also from the precincts of mythic caricature.

  • Nanzenji is a former 13th-century palace whose precincts now house a dozen affiliated temples and monasteries.

  • I was on the up escalator, rising into the perfumed precincts of the second floor of the Nordstrom department store in Virginia's Pentagon City mall, when a tall, shapely black woman, about 39 years of age, sashayed past and settled in three steps above me.

  • In the precincts of the American left that still dream of Fidel and Che in the Sierra Maestra, Rieff's book was greeted with murmurings of disapproval--the kind of murmurings that had greeted Sontag's famous Town Hall declaration of the moral equivalence of communism and fascism some years before.

  • The NYPD precincts were divided into 35 different radio zones, with a central radio dispatcher assigned to each.


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