Local

//ˈləʊ.kl̩//

"Local" in a Sentence (36 examples)

Many local traditions have fallen into decay in recent years.

I'll give you a local anaesthetic.

The director wanted the local Asahi reporter to go to the scene of the crime.

The local school board would go to any length to ban that book.

The express train is an hour faster than the local.

Local shops do good business with tourists.

The way tourists dress offends the local standard of propriety.

We have to respect local customs.

Soon after graduating from trade school, Ray Murphy was taken on as a machinist at the local automobile plant.

There is a short program of local news on the radio.

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We prefer local produce.

Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.

A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.

local disk drive

The panel shows both local and remote sites.

A Hausdorff space satisfying local compactness need not be (globally) compact!

Flatness is a local property.

local lesion

The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.

Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.

It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.

Taunton station is busy - even more so when the inbound working of my Bristol train arrives, laden with the usual mix of 'staycationers' and locals.

I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.

Citing the risk involved with being out as a gay person and a union activist while simultaneously dealing with racism, Susan notes that there are no out gays or lesbians of color in her local, though its membership is about 80 percent people of color.

The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.

I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.

As they take me to my local down the street.

Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.

Globals are visible anywhere in your application, whereas locals are visible only in the function in which they're declared.

Well, Mr. Dalton, you may add nine staples to your dossier of thirty‐one broken bones, two bullet wounds, nine puncture wounds and four steel screws. That’s an estimate, of course. I’ll give you a local.

On most futures exchanges, there are two major types of futures traders/members: commission brokers and locals.

Her camera roll is filled with pictures and videos of her idol, she doesn't let any of her friends see her account because "no locals allowed", […]

Locals are characterised by their seeming lack of involvement or ~expertise~ on the platform.

Heck, even locals sometimes use GIFs of her when they feel like tweeting with taste.

It's never been more important to buy local.

Coca-Cola, for example, shifted its stance, unsuccessfully, between “think global, act global” and “think local, act local” during the tenures of three different CEOs in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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