LOCALITY in a Sentence

Learn LOCALITY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

302 example sentences for LOCALITY, such as:

1. I saw the fascination of the locality.
2. The area has a few local peculiarities.
3. The aspect of the locality has changed.
4. Tom teaches sculpture at the local art school.
5. Money will also go into local development projects in Vietnam.

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 Meanings and Examples of LOCALITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
locality
 n.  place; district; surrounding or nearby region; particular neighborhood
Classic Sentence: (92 in 7 pages)
1  The locality was spoken of as though it had been the dwelling of a hangman.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2  There are lodging houses in this locality, but he did not even enter one, finding nothing which suited him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
3  The aspect of the locality has changed.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN
4  In a bee-line, through the underbrush, which is peculiarly dense, very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was necessary.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS...
5  He guessed that the lady of the black hood was the procurator's wife of the Rue aux Ours, which was the more probable from the church of St. Leu being not far from that locality.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS
6  To this the lady replied that she had never so much as heard the name, since no gentleman of the name resided in the locality.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
7  Dohkturov, a little man, sat opposite Weyrother, with an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII
8  The locality and the position of our troops were known to him as far as they could be known to anyone in our army.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XV
9  On the twenty-fifth of August, so his historians tell us, Napoleon spent the whole day on horseback inspecting the locality, considering plans submitted to him by his marshals, and personally giving commands to his generals.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXVII
10  I saw the fascination of the locality.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
11  I began to dream, almost before I ceased to be sensible of my locality.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  He noticed this, and thrust at an inner door with the end of his spade, intimating by an inarticulate sound that there was the place where I must go, if I changed my locality.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  Your agent will easily recognise the locality, as it is the ancient chapel of the mansion.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  The Professor had evidently noted the road we were to go, for he went on unhesitatingly; but, as for me, I was in quite a mixup as to locality.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  That locality was always vaguely disquieting, even in the broad glare of afternoon, and now I turned my head as though I had been warned of something behind.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  We've received permission to go ahead with the music festival in spite of opposition from local residents.
17  Money will also go into local development projects in Vietnam.
18  The road-works caused much complaint among local residents.
19  I feel that not enough is being done to protect the local animal life.
20  The local authority can apply for a supervision order for the child.
21  The local authority's approach to health care seems totally haphazard.
22  The club has made an approach to a local company for sponsorship.
23  Annie's the film critic for the local radio station, so she's got a free pass for all the cinemas in the area.
24  The area has a few local peculiarities.
25  Tom teaches sculpture at the local art school.
26  Two teenagers carried out a frenzied attack on a local shopkeeper.
27  In November, the millwrights' local voted to hire me as their attorney.
28  Attorney General Brewster made an attempt to punish the violators by ordering the local district attorney to make arrests.
29  David Holton and Hughes already have entered into an agreement with the local state attorney to settle criminal charges.
30  But local attorney Bill Risner raises a potential problem for Scott on the governance side of the conflict equation.