How to use "local" in a sentence

It can be helped by insistence that the Federal, the State, and the local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced

Large angry crowds gathered in Hanbury Street and at the local police stations

During dinner, Mile Baptistine looked at Valjean kindly while the bishop talked about the local cheese-making industry

"We understand that hundreds of local businesses are in serious trouble because of you and this bank," I say

William Grey: a local cyclist and a good man.

She stopped twice: once at the house of one of Mrs Dawson's friends and once at a local pub

We can also check one or two of the local pubs on the way back to the city."

I started playing when I was seven or eight, with friends at school, online, in local competitions

She can get it as she passes the restaurant, buy a bottle of wine from the local shop and be in bed by ten o'clock.

He is the local magistrate

That was the term by which casino employees still referred to local, elderly women whose social lives revolved around an obsessive interest in one-armed bandits, even though the nickel machines were pretty much ancient history

"Remember maybe ten years ago when that Texas elections official revealed how Lyndon Johnson's first local election was fixed? The guy said he was just trying to clear his conscience after all those years

And in a small local election like the one Kennebeck won, stacking the deck would be easy if you had enough money and government muscle behind you."

"I know a couple of local guys," Elliot said

"But maybe it's not wise to go to the local press

It was a local tragedy

But if we go to the press in Los Angeles or New York or some other city, the reporters there aren't going to have a whole lot of interest in it unless they see an aspect of the story that lifts it out of the local-interest category

"Let's get the address of the local dealership," Tina said

During our dinner, we talked about politics, books, films, and the local football club

I began to walk back to the village and our local chemist, Mr Cherabim, joined me

He met some local people who were up early, but the story he told and his appearance were so wild that they would not listen to him

The bells of the local church rang loudly, a carelessly-driven cart smashed, and people screamed and swore

You can see the quiet expectation, the officers watching, the gunners waiting with their horses, the groups of local people standing as near as they were allowed, the ambulances and hospital tents with the burnt and wounded from Weybridge

The local fisherman's guide book doesn't say anything about catching fish

So for the meantime it is going to be the local bus with its dirty seats, unpleasant passengers, and rude conductors..