District

//ˈdɪstɹɪkt//

"District" in a Sentence (16 examples)

The fire and power outage resulted in a shortened workday at some exchanges in Manhattan's financial district.

The panic spread through the district in an instant.

The power plant supplies the remote district with electricity.

The legend has come down in this district from olden times.

The district is abundant in natural resources.

The old custom is still kept up in that district.

That district is no longer a safe place to live in.

The district is short of water.

Hundreds of people have starved to death in that district.

The plants are peculiar to the district.

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‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War.[…]’

the Soho district of London

the Lake District in Cumbria

South Oxfordshire District Council

punishing with the rod of district severity

The District seems complacently salubrious. It is green on the Tube map, an inoffensive colour. It has not one but two bridge crossings of the Thames, which seems greedy when you think that no other [underground] line has even one.

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