How to Use citywide in a Sentence

citywide

adjective
  • The ban on smoking in public places is citywide.
  • Over 2,400 people are still on the citywide wait list for a bed.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The citywide cap will be set at 2.5 percent of the city’s total housing units, while the coastal cap will be 4 percent.
    — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The city imposed a two-part citywide lockdown on March 28 that was supposed to lift on April 5.
    — Tripti Lahiri, Quartz, 9 May 2022
  • The group is planning to adopt the new citywide spending plan by late September.
    — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • An eight-minute fireworks display along the Strip will cap the citywide party.
    — Reis Thebault, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Where to expect the Jubilee crowds Jubilee is a citywide event.
    — Erica Firpo, AFAR Media, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The brush fire comes less than a week after the city issued a rare citywide drought watch in response to a historic dry spell.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 9 Nov. 2024
  • The policy was citywide, so there wasn’t much to argue about.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2021
  • That's almost three times higher than the citywide total of about 15%.
    — Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The Myart-Cruz slate won five of seven citywide officer races.
    — Howard Blumestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Such traffic-calming measures are planned in places all over the city; Plans to set a citywide speed limit of 25 mph.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Of course, the end of citywide mask mandates doesn’t mean the end of masking rules altogether.
    — Alex Putterman, courant.com, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The censored ending in China cut the film to black before the citywide destruction.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023
  • And the city would not have to spend $2.5 million on citywide speed limit sign replacement.
    — Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Here are the candidates: City Council has two citywide, at-large seats.
    — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 2 Nov. 2021
  • When four men were arrested in the fall of 1999 for the yogurt shop murders, relief was felt citywide.
    — CBS News, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Lam said that plans to carry out citywide testing are also on hold.
    — Britt Clennett, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2022
  • That law, known as 41.18, targets key locations, such as schools and day-care centers, and is not a citywide ban.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2024
  • To be sure, citywide homicide and shooting numbers are up.
    — Jessica Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 21 May 2022
  • Another round of citywide testing is planned for April 27 to 30.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 28 Apr. 2022
  • As part of a citywide remembrance, the Met will participate in the 9/11 Tribute in Lights, bathing its façade in sky-blue light.
    — Jane Levere, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The shooting came after days of protests over Taylor's killing, and a citywide curfew had been issued.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 25 Aug. 2022
  • High school students can apply to schools citywide, ranking up to a dozen programs.
    — Troy Closson, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Its crowning event is a citywide water fight where all are welcome.
    — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2024
  • The board also has the power to institute a citywide ban of the bottles on its own, according to Arroyo.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2023
  • In 2016, Tulsa voters approved a sales-tax hike to pay for a citywide culture makeover that gives the Gilcrease a new building with much more gallery space.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 12 June 2021
  • The new rule will increase the maximum number of citywide dispensaries from 36 to 37.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Bowser said the plaza will be repainted as part of a citywide mural project for the country’s 250th birthday next year.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2025
  • But those stories have garnered citywide attention of late thanks to new murals placed at a more prominent, heavily trafficked area.
    — Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025

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