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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "local" in a sentence

    local example sentences

    local


    1. There is a local saying “If you can see Carn Brea it’s going to rain, if you can’t, it already is” a nd, if you stand still for long enough, you wil be guaranteed to turn mouldy


    2. I would probably be advised by the local “boys in blue” that I was providing information liable to promote discrimination


    3. "They are not one in a million in the Gengee, not one in a thousand in any local village," she said


    4. proof technique [as I once explained to the local Vicar]


    5. rubbish we are fed about local customs and dishes when we stumble


    6. Do you associate with the local bar? How about associating with the gym instead


    7. That was local terminology for yaag that had been boosted with other psychedelics


    8. She and Yorthops had grown remarkably close in these two local years


    9. After two of the short local years, she was now getting used to living with Kulai


    10. There was one of them she knew very well, Herndon Luicius Carlos da Silva, the one she shared a bed with for twenty Earth years, three decades by the local calendar

    11. What a lifetime it had been, especially the first few local years as they prowled around each other like two wary cats, amusing the local population


    12. It was a local year by air to reach Alan, three to six weeks by air to reach the area the Brazilians had settled


    13. She had not been friendly with Kulai until just the past couple local years, she'd lived here a little over three months as she had counted time on Narrulla's Tear


    14. Their leader had died of an imported pathogen just three local years ago


    15. "A lot of stupid local politics


    16. These are all available from the Mo Hotta Mo Betta Catalog, if not available at your local store


    17. Was it still 2424 on Earth? It was about that, an eventful year for her, 2424 the Earth year, not 1002124, the local year


    18. "I believe you did," she told him, "In some mail just a few local years ago


    19. While many are available at local stores many are not


    20. The only times she had been on this water before was when tying up in Sinbara for the first time on a local packet out of Zharvai and when she was with Jorma in a borrowed fishing skiff

    21. He had informed her, numerous times, that even though her body was local, her mind was of Earth and he would have registered their children as pureblood terrestrial


    22. "The disadvantage of traveling at this speed is you never have a chance to get local detail maps


    23. By local standards 'short' was if cut at all


    24. The ones he opposed would establish a boundary and cut off all but rudimentary contact with local society


    25. Four local years was less than a normal pregnancy


    26. She hadn't come with him even in that had she? When we are one in a billion, what chance do we have? She had just tried to gravitate towards the part of the local civilization that she liked the best


    27. The project also trains local health workers, sensitising them to the needs of older people and building links between the community and service-providers


    28. Local compost rich with trace minerals, composted animal manure and lots of humus are best


    29. He holds services in the local pubs and is chaplain to both the local college and the steam railway which runs nearby


    30. I daresay he’ll be able to find out who the guy in the bar was … as I said, I think he was a local

    31. There is a stone patio next to the building overlooking the pounding waves and a couple of local men sit drinking a beer at a plastic table and talking


    32. doostEr worried that the city fathers had convinced the local news outlets to only say that he had run into the wilds so people would stop worrying


    33. I'm just a local Garda Sergeant so I wouldn't be involved in that kind of investigation


    34. Probably the local church collecting for something


    35. Local office employees, pen-pushers, desk-monkeys


    36. "Why are you here Petrakis? Who said you could come down here without contacting the local Gardai?"


    37. step much farther than your local hospital, into the territory of God’s


    38. ‘… which has re-activated local discussion concerning Mrs Elizabeth Wynell, the woman who was helping police with their enquiries recently, but the police have refuted any suggestion that Mrs Wynell is connected with this


    39. ‘The news that Joanna Sadler was having an affair with a local civil servant has hit Dan Sadler hard


    40. Liz arrives good and early, as we arranged yesterday, and I soon pack her and Stephen off to the local DIY shop to buy paint for the walls

    41. I had lived there continuously for thirteen years but of course, I couldn't go back in time and go to school in the local Christian Brothers in order to be fully accepted by the natives of Darklow


    42. More importantly he was the only independently elected figure we had in town and I knew he had a strong reputation for local grass roots community work


    43. I also reasoned that if I could get local politics on board that this would give the Gardai and my worm of a boss Peter Dooley pause for thought before they tried to shut me down


    44. She was the only person his age in the local area, a pretty black-haired, ochre-skinned Elf girl just two and a half decades of age


    45. The local lads, so I understood, shagged her because they could


    46. I had a quick look at the phone and realized it wasn't Peter this time but a local number


    47. This wasn't a politician looking for votes or a local kid collecting for a sponsored run


    48. Derek Reilly, hard man local dad who had threatened to batter me


    49. For all his respect for the Gardai he also knew that local police were never really of any use in an international investigation


    50. Although his first impulse was to go to Darklow and shake the small town criminal community into information about a beautiful 19 year old girl with a foreign accent who had been forced into the local sex trade, Melinda's information somehow made him believe that he should stay on course, that all these things were related














































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    Synonyms for "local"

    local local anaesthetic local anesthetic topical anaesthetic topical anesthetic native provincial parochial indigenous regional insular confined restricted limited bounded isolated narrow

    "local" definitions

    public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops


    anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body


    relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area


    of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood


    affecting only a restricted part or area of the body