DISTRICT in a Sentence

Learn DISTRICT 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.
158 example sentences for DISTRICT, such as:
1. The defense wants the district Judge to throw out the case.
2. district, and the two others to show the number of days in.
3. The city is notorious for its red light district and strip clubs.
4. The new district attorney has promised to fight police corruption.
5. You have only to look around to see the prosperity of the district.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DISTRICT
district
 v.  regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns
 n.  a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
Classic Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
1  Respectable citizens were scandalized to find that Atlanta had a large and thriving red-light district, larger and more thriving than during the war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  And on Sunday afternoons, the handsome closed carriages of the madams of the district rolled down the main streets, filled with girls in their best finery, taking the air from behind lowered silk shades.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  She had opened a new house of her own, a large two-story building that made neighboring houses in the district look like shabby rabbit warrens.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  She had an appointment early the next morning with a district visitor on the East side.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
5  They drove from the natural prairie to a cleared district which twenty years ago had been forest.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  They were the only officers, besides Raymie, from the Gopher Prairie district.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
7  So omnipotent is art; which in many a district of New Bedford has superinduced bright terraces of flowers upon the barren refuse rocks thrown aside at creation's final day.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
8  district, and the two others to show the number of days in.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. The Chart.
9  Later that afternoon he and Ona went out to take a walk and look about them, to see more of this district which was to be their home.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
10  Jurgis was at a loss to understand why, with wages as they were, so many of the people of this district should live the way they did.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
11  Just so it was in Packingtown; the whole district braced itself for the struggle that was an agony, and those whose time was come died off in hordes.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
12  The ruler of the district was therefore the Democratic boss, a little Irishman named Mike Scully.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
13  The policemen in the district all belonged to the league, and instead of suppressing the fights, they sold tickets for them.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
14  If Scully was the thumb, Pat Callahan was the first finger of the unseen hand whereby the packers held down the people of the district.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
15  Meantime, Teta Elzbieta would go and beg, over in the Hyde Park district, and the children would bring home enough to pacify Aniele, and keep them all alive.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  The district board will vote today on whether to go ahead with the plan.
2  You have only to look around to see the prosperity of the district.
3  The district attorney said if McVeigh is given the death penalty and his conviction is upheld on appeal, the state prosecution would become moot.
4  The new district attorney has promised to fight police corruption.
5  The plea was part of a deal struck with the Dallas County district attorney.
6  Attorney General Brewster made an attempt to punish the violators by ordering the local district attorney to make arrests.
7  The Texas Supreme Court will consider a case next month that could seal another entire realm of information: district attorney files.
8  He was a district attorney in Pennsylvania, I was a writer on Cape Cod.
9  BReid, who is a former deputy district attorney, did not return a phone call seeking comment.
10  BThe district attorney notifies them by letter to attend a meeting at the school auditorium.
11  The showdown between a district attorney and a Houston Chronicle reporter who refuses to reveal her sources moves into federal court Monday.
12  They expressed worry about the district's current budget crisis and its vanishing middle-class work force.
13  The defense wants the district Judge to throw out the case.
14  The city is notorious for its red light district and strip clubs.
15  The new trolleybus line was routed through the commercial district.