Used in a Sentence

local

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for local.

Editorial note

There are also many plugin-hybrids now: 0 gaws for local driving, and a gas tank for long dries.

Examples14
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

A person who lives in or near a given place.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of local gathered in one view.

noun

A person who lives in or near a given place.

noun

A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.

adjective

From or in a nearby location.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for local.

Example sentences

1

There are also many plugin-hybrids now: 0 gaws for local driving, and a gas tank for long dries.

2

So, any messages local to Site A don't (need) any attestation: they were generated locally, and read locally.

3

If you're thinking of using the runoff from local rains, consider that California is in a drought.

4

People are arrested in New Zealand and Germany even though they didn’t break local laws by hosting pirated content.

5

Rackspace is local home improvement shop, with good service, which was doing fine until Home Depot build it's store nearby.

6

There was no concept that anyone could submit articles anywhere; rather, users submitted articles to their local site, which forwarded them on.

7

Societies are self-organising to some extent, especially in their local cluster.

8

If the US were to assert global jurisdiction for a decision made in a local (i.e., state or federal) court it would be equally unfounded.

9

You can think of us as Waze for local places.

10

The issue here is that France is trying to apply a local law that is not mutually agreed upon with any other country, to other countries.

11

Our revolutionary urban logistics and on-demand delivery platform connects customers with local couriers, who purchase and deliver goods from any restaurant or store in a city.

12

I go to the local bonsai meetup, but it's out in a suburb and not really oriented toward younger folks in the city.

Quote examples

1

And my guess is: the local newspapers are a worse political target than evil large western company they can blame all their ills on:) "Targeting the companies indexing the information is probably a more tractable problem then tracking down and eliminating all the sources." I don't buy this.

2

I had to use some to pay the workers because I'm not enslaving people " If a country takes the same amount of money and comes back to you 2 years later: " Your money was used to build this new road to improve the local economy, also we were able to save 3 persons from a fire thanks to this new fire truck, and treat 2 people at the hospital.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use local in a sentence?

There are also many plugin-hybrids now: 0 gaws for local driving, and a gas tank for long dries.

What does local mean?

A person who lives in or near a given place.

What part of speech is local?

local is commonly used as noun, adjective.