How to Use bailiwick in a Sentence

bailiwick

noun
  • Whether that’s within their bailiwick is a point of disagreement.
    — Debbie Kelley, The Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2017
  • Mansfield also has her bailiwicks.
    — Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
  • Fact-checkers did not always have such an expansive bailiwick.
    — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 8 Jan. 2020
  • The trouble there is that those skills are directly in the bailiwick of AI.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • And so that's within their bailiwick to deal with that issue and the people of New York.
    — CBS News, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Their bailiwick now includes how Muslims should act on social media.
    — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2018
  • This gets into the business of insurance products, and that is the bailiwick of agents and brokers.
    — Amy Goldstein, Washington Post, 10 July 2018
  • The agency has since extended its bailiwick to isolated ponds, drainage ditches and dry creek beds.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
  • That’s totally their bailiwick.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Her bailiwick as a child was the violin, but her stage act also included singing, dancing and even an escape-artistry act.
    — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Brodeur is chairman of the House's budget committee on health care, so any of these bills would likely have to go through his bailiwick.
    — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • These are usually the bailiwick of young players who’ve flown under the radar, not 13-year veterans.
    — Michael Beller, SI.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Being outside of his bailiwick Lewis seemed to be under some misimpressions.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2012
  • Great painting, everybody knew, was Europe’s bailiwick.
    — Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026
  • In theory, orchestrating an action plan after this report would be right in the cyber czar’s bailiwick.
    — Derek Hawkins, Washington Post, 30 May 2018
  • So the Hoosiers just have to find an inside receiver who can make up for some of the playmaking in space that has been Philyor’s bailiwick.
    — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The Scripture says to feed the widows and the orphans and take care of those who can't take care themselves, and that is Skip Rutherford's bailiwick.
    — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 27 June 2021
  • His bailiwick is seamy realism, walking the edge of soft-core as lowlife exploiter Larry Clark did with Kids, but never transcending it.
    — Armond White, National Review, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Reardon's usual focus is on using data from pulsar timing arrays to search for nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves, so magnets are a bit out of his bailiwick.
    — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 26 May 2020
  • As for this past holiday season, one category that did well was smart home products, not typically Home Depot's bailiwick.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The sincerity of this aim can sometimes run counter to the sharp, excruciatingly realistic satire that’s previously been the show’s bailiwick, and sometimes still is.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Never mind that these were issues that fell squarely within the bailiwick of the agency’s Wage and Hour Division, where Weil had served in the past and was nominated to head again.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
  • Fortunately for Henderson, a large portion of the account was directed to the corporate-and-financial team, which was outside Bell’s bailiwick.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 25 May 2018
  • While nanofabrication is Cabrini’s main bailiwick, much of his work of late has been focused on nanophotonics, especially in the emerging fields of metamaterials and plasmonics.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 May 2017
  • The Tide's previous defensive coordinators had expertise coaching the secondary, which just so happens to be Saban's bailiwick, too.
    — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The Senate bill reauthorizing the FAA keeps air traffic control operations within the agency’s bailiwick.
    — Washington Post, 27 June 2017
  • Marcos brings the votes of his father’s bailiwick in the Ilocano-speaking region of northern Luzon to the ticket, while Duterte will likely deliver votes from the Visayan-speaking southern part of the country.
    — Sheila S. Coronel, Foreign Affairs, 5 May 2022
  • In light of what Nintendo seems to be illustrating, that there is appetite for a consumer device that preserves the higher-end console experience on the go, would Sony ever revisit a once formidable bailiwick?
    — Matt Peckham, Time, 5 June 2017
  • And for all the deserved flack first-year defensive coordinator Steve Wilks has received this season, coordinating a secondary to handle long-developing plays in zone coverage is his bailiwick.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • January 6th would seem to fall within that bailiwick, but, as court dockets up and down the Eastern Seaboard demonstrate, the insurrection and its surrounding intrigues remain very much part of America’s present tense.
    — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023

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