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Example sentences for "local"

Lexicographically close words:
lobular; lobulated; lobule; lobules; loca; locale; locales; localisation; localise; localised
  1. Particulars of the murder, execution and autopsy were in all the local papers.

  2. They were originally local, local to the place, local to the people, and as the people progressed so did their ideas of God.

  3. No other people in the same stage of civilisation can show so much local freedom.

  4. The gods were at first but local, local to the place, local to the tribe.

  5. And gradually their local god or gods grew into the God of the whole world.

  6. Improved upon it, rather," said L'Isle, for she had not closely followed the local costume where it did not please her.

  7. Such people are much akin to the self-styled citizen of the world, who professes to have rid himself of all local and national prejudice.

  8. The regimental business was soon dispatched, and the adjutant, who was a capital newsmonger, began to detail the local news of the day.

  9. It would be unsafe to predict the return of Mr. Girdlestone himself were he to hold on to the General Election, and he is a local man.

  10. But, as you can ring some thousands of changes upon a peal of eight bells so by the free use of a dozen dialect words you can impart a strong local colour to any commonplace story.

  11. Nor was this apostasy (if we may use the expression) merely of a partial or local kind; since the pious deserter who withdrew himself from the temples of Egypt or Syria, would equally disdain to seek an asylum in those of Athens or Carthage.

  12. It prescribed wages, rural and urban, and bade the local justice act as a sort of guardian over the laborers in his district.

  13. It zealously sends out its organizers to form local unions and has made provision that "any seven wage workers of good character following any trade or calling" can establish a local union with federal affiliations.

  14. To combine effectually these dual interests, the Federation espouses the principle of home rule in purely local matters and of federal supervision in all general matters.

  15. It had over a dozen members in Congress, active organizations in nearly every State, and ten thousand local clubs.

  16. It spread from the local to the St. Louis Central Trades and Labor Union and to the Metal Polishers' Union.

  17. The leaders ordered every striker to do something which would involve arrest in order to choke the local jail and the courts.

  18. When this board is not occupied with the relations of the men to their employers, it gives its judicial consideration to the more delicate and more difficult questions of inter-union comity and of local differences.

  19. A large price is paid for the autonomy that permits the local unions to declare strikes without the sanction of the general officers.

  20. They were the makers of the local proverbial philosophy, and many of their phrases are alive today.

  21. It is otherwise to-day, and their English, when it pretends at all to a literary flavor, is the English of the local weekly paper.

  22. He told us that some of the local people were in favor of an organ for the church, and had talked about getting up a subscription, but he wouldn't listen to the idea.

  23. The Palazzo Giovio is now the local museum.

  24. Italian Gothic of an unmistakable local cast is its style and the effect is heightened by the ringhiera between the windows of the south side.

  25. This is probably local jealousy only, and is not really contempt.

  26. Palladio himself is buried in the local Campo Santo.

  27. It is the accessible route however, and the one usually claimed by the local garage and hotel keepers to be one of the best of Italian roads.

  28. Concerning its origin the following local legend is here related: "Where the lake now lies there stood once a great city.

  29. It has a sea-view that would make the reputation of a resort, and the French and Italian Touring Clubs recommend the Hotel Royal, while the local druggist sells gasoline and oil to automobile tourists at fair rates--for Italy.

  30. Local guides miscall it a palace, but in reality it is a very humble edifice; not at all palatial.

  31. In the twelfth century, local laws, throughout Tuscany, reduced all towers to a height of fifty braccia.

  32. The youth informed the local authorities; and Campanello led away himself by the blind passion of love, fell precipitately into the trap which the injured youth had helped to set.

  33. Urbino, too, was the birthplace of him whom we know familiarly as Raphael, though curiously enough the local museum contains but a single example of his work, and that a drawing of "Moses in the Bulrushes.

  34. Everybody is "doing" everything, as though their very lives depended upon their absorbing as much as possible of local colour, and that as speedily as possible.

  35. Successively a dependency of Padua and of the Verona Scaligers, it passed to Venice in 1405, retaining its local government and municipal institutions.

  36. One was the discharge of his duties as a magistrate in the local government of his county.

  37. But he had found in the Council a field for local public work, and apart from his constitutional indolence and his declining health, he had concluded that his first duty lay in expounding his philosophical system.

  38. Statements of the local banks showed steady increases in the deposits of Fairman’s workers.

  39. On this particular day, while Ezekiel was discussing the momentous issue with the diligently idle crowd of local Chair Polishers, he got acquainted with a Travelling Salesman from Whopps Corners, Ind.

  40. Away off somewhere in Thibet or in Sumatra there may have been some petty local question that Ed was not wisdomed-up on, but everything that took on the character of a national or international issue, he could discuss from basement to belfry.

  41. Let not the thought here sneak into your mind, Gentile Reader, that our embryonic George Creel confined his observations solely to advertisements committed by local craftsmen.

  42. The announcement was followed by a shower of publicity in the local Press that would have cost Father John a hundred dollars.

  43. They lived, moved and had their boiled cabbage in one of those sedentary little dumps that get their air through the keyhole in winter and smell like a Subway Local on a wet day.

  44. Local Sheet advertising the Lines he carried and received many free cols.

  45. Also he had been twice to Chicago; once during his honeymoon, and once when he went there to get his teeth filled, and in so doing made the local horseshoer sore on him for life.

  46. Chesterton’s first clever move was to procure copies of The Banner and analyze all the local Advertisements, but after close scrutiny he concluded that they all leaned heavily to The Rotten.

  47. The desire for local bits of news must have been very much fostered in the islands by the difficulty there used to be in obtaining any from the outside world.

  48. A local wag once made a hit at this excessive love of "neatness" by parodying the lines I have quoted above.

  49. She advertises in the local paper for a situation as cook, from her parents' cottage, where the whole family pig in one room.

  50. When I was a boy I was wont to ride about my native county, putting up at little village inns for the night, and there I often came in for gatherings where the local song-man entertained the company.

  51. Abbé Drouin, the curé of Aubevoye, who knew all the local traditions.

  52. The building of the road, however satisfactory in the main, was not undertaken without arousing many sectional and personal hopes and prejudices and jealousies, of which the echoes still linger in local legends today.

  53. Local contractors were given preference by the commissioners, and three-fourths of the work was done by natives of the State.

  54. But as local governments became more efficient, monopolies were abolished and the collection of tolls was taken over by the authorities.

  55. A notable amount of local trade was carried on, but the expense of transportation was very high even after wagons began crossing the Alleghanies.

  56. In 1700, Pennsylvania turned her local roads over to the county justices, put the King's highway and the main public roads under the care of the governor and his council, and ordered each county to erect bridges over its streams.

  57. The speaker, a very old man, interposes a trembling hand to save Vereker from what he may not anticipate, perhaps has it in mind to beseech him to give place to the local doctor, just arriving.

  58. And even the authority would be gone, and the local by-laws.

  59. But at St. Sennans a mysterious silence reigns behind a local office that yields keys on application, and answers all inquiries, and asks ridiculous rents.

  60. There are three hundred and sixty communes in Sicily, and every one of them, says this writer, 'has its own Mafia, of which the character varies according to local tendencies and interests.

  61. And he suggests that the only method of rendering the use of steam-power universal, particularly for agriculture, would be to construct the boiler of the engine so as to utilise the local supplies of combustible material of every kind.

  62. The Minnesotian was probably the first daily paper in the West to illustrate a local feature.

  63. In 1861 Peter and Caroline Richings spent a part of the summer in St. Paul, and local amusement lovers were delightfully entertained by these celebrities during their sojourn.

  64. About the time of the great Heenan and Sayers prize fight in England a number of local sports arranged to have a mock engagement at the Athenaeum.

  65. Mr. Shelley had at one time been quite prominent in local Republican circles, but when Andrew Johnson made his famous swing around the circle Shelley got an idea that the proper thing to do was to swing around with him.

  66. The old opera house fronting on Wabasha street, on the ground that is now occupied by the Grand block, was finished that winter and opened with a grand entertainment given by local talent.

  67. Not only were the fortifications of Quebec strengthened, but steps were also taken to form a local militia guard under the command of the town-major, Prevost.

  68. To the left was the fort built by Maisonneuve, no longer relied on for defence, but used chiefly as a residence for the local governor.

  69. These include stream alluvium, rock and landslide debris, river terraces, and gravels, all derived from local formations.

  70. This member has only local development in Fossil Basin.

  71. But when local disturbance exists, the direction of the needle and the intensity of the controlling field are both altered by the local disturbance, so it would appear natural for the declination changes to be influenced also.

  72. This is a point requiring attention, because most observatories employ Greenwich time, or time based on Greenwich or some other national observatory, and any departure from local time enters into the values of the constants.

  73. But when stations are wide apart there are two obvious difficulties: first, the difference of local time; secondly, the fact that a day may be typically quiet at one station but appreciably disturbed at the other.

  74. Over the greater part of the area of Madras artificial irrigation is impossible, and cultivation is dependent upon the local rainfall, which rarely exceeds 40 in.

  75. When, however, local disturbances exist, even a few feet difference in the site may be important, and in the absence of positive knowledge to the contrary it is only prudent to act as if the site were disturbed.

  76. Efforts have also been made by the local authorities to cover the large stretches of waste ground and commons with pines and other trees.

  77. In the case of the diurnal inequality, the presumption is that at least the declination and inclination changes will be influenced by local disturbance.

  78. One also can tell what places if any on the coast suffer from local disturbances, and thus decide on the necessity of special observations.

  79. Neglecting as before diurnal variation and similar temporary changes, and assuming no abnormal local disturbance, the compass needle at and very close to this pole will occupy a fixed direction relative to the ground underneath.

  80. As far as possible in local affairs, each of the native races is granted autonomy, the dominion of the Hova over the other tribes being abolished.

  81. At Kew the consequence is a notable increase in the range of the regular diurnal inequality on disturbed days; but whether this is the general rule or merely a local peculiarity is a subject for further research.

  82. The principle of local devolution is carried somewhat further in Madras than in other provinces.

  83. In the table, so far as is known, the local mean time of the observatory has been employed.

  84. The main office is in the city, Mammy, but they have, of course, a local agent here.

  85. So after the first two weeks the local expressman was pressed into service, and the old colored man, who for years had run the elevator in the Arcade, received the boxes upon their delivery.

  86. She was a steady reader of the local newspapers, especially of the police and county court news, and so had become aware that Palethorpe & Overthwaite were the men for her money.

  87. No less than Aragon have other regions their local dances and their choreographic creed, with stupendous pride in both.

  88. The movements of making a shoe are known to every villager; he has watched the cobbler many a time, and known him usually as the local philosopher.

  89. But their existence is significant, as indicating a parent trunk from which many local dance forms have branched.

  90. Mexico, Cuba, and various countries of South America have their local compositions; but of these many are mere degenerations of their original models, and many are compounded with steps of the Indians.

  91. Such lines, regardless of the literary tone of the play, are customarily delivered in the local dialect of the region represented.

  92. He was domiciled temporarily in the local prison, and on the following morning an escort took him to another part of the building and ushered him into a sort of office where various uniformed individuals were gathered.

  93. It was dark when they reached this town, and here they had to change into a local train for Glatz.


  94. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "local" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    local administration; local affairs; local authorities; local authority; local autonomy; local banks; local circle; local circles; local circumstances; local color; local colour; local conditions; local government; local habitation; local history; local inflammation; local names; local option; local origin; local preacher; local rates; local self; local short; local tradition; local treatment; locally known