How to Use civic center in a Sentence

civic center

noun
  • The group descended from the roof to find the civic center filled with mud.
    — Walter Berry and Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Meetings have been held in the last two months on what residents want included in the civic center.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The city is prepared to open up shelters next week if needed at two vacant school buildings and a civic center.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 8 May 2023
  • On weekdays, the lunch and happy hour crowds tend to be city and county workers from the nearby civic center.
    — Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025
  • On Monday, just one guard patrolled the entire civic center complex.
    — Kate Talerico, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The small ceremony was held underneath a tree outside of the city's civic center.
    — Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The city purchased the property years ago as the possible location for a new civic center that is yet to be built.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The civic center project has been debated in the community for several years.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The site may have also later been used as a civic center based on inscriptions from the 3rd century, researchers said.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 26 June 2024
  • The cornerstone of the civic center, an imposing set of buildings laid out in the shape of a horseshoe, was a twenty-four-inch slab of gold-bearing reef.
    — Kimon De Greef, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • It was moved to Heritage Park on Sycamore Drive in 1992 to make way for a new civic center.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Altadena has never organized itself around a traditional civic center, like a city hall plaza or downtown square.
    — Sam Lubell, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The other shopping centers around town, the civic center and the post office were all made possible through RDA funds.
    — Terri Daxon, Oc Register, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Civic Center project Construction of the civic center has sparked controversy for the last several years.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The fountain on Broadway and Colfax and the reflection pools at the civic center were an asset to our once beautiful downtown.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 21 May 2024
  • At the civic center, a birthday party was derailed Saturday when floodwaters began pouring onto the dance floor.
    — Walter Berry and Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Meantime, a candlelight vigil for Noel will be held Monday evening outside the civic center in Everman.
    — Tristan Balagtas, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2023
  • New civic center debated At the same time, the university recently opened a civics center as required by a 2023 state law.
    — Chris Quintana, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Still, archaeologists suspect these structures had an administrative function due to their location in the civic center.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Segura's legacy remains imprinted on the city of Madrid, commemorated by a civic center named in her honor and a bust placed outside the building in her likeness.
    — Jordana Comiter, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Segura's legacy remains imprinted on the city of Madrid, commemorated by a civic center named in her honor and a bust placed outside the building in her likeness.
    — Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Students with bullet wounds, grazes and other injuries were not given medical attention, but rather put onto buses that went to the civic center, which was set up as a reunification center.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Nearby, Market Square became the city's civic center, home to Houston's first city hall and numerous markets and other businesses.
    — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 20 Mar. 2023
  • This is further supported by the dig’s location near the city’s historic Stadshalle civic center and belfry, but this is not a definitive confirmation.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 29 Apr. 2026
  • One unit is stationed atop the downtown civic center where it can be launched immediately upon receiving a 911 call, and the rest are deployed by teams of officers in patrol cars.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Commission meetings in May and July saw hour-long discussions and rallies by community members who begged the city to keep ownership of the civic center.
    — Natalia Jaramillo, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
  • That includes municipalities, coalitions, cohorts, collectives and maybe, also, public civic center boards with enormous amounts of cash reserves.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 29 June 2023
  • More than 15 voters within the span of a half hour were redirected from the Orland Township Hall to the civic center because their voting address had changed.
    — Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson said that a hotel is planned for the footprint of the civic center, in addition to renovating the civic center itself.
    — Margaret Kates | [email protected], al, 29 June 2023
  • Artworks by Dara Birnbaum and Elaine Sturtevant flank the building’s entrance, honoring the theater’s origins as a women’s civic center.
    — Will Fenstermaker, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026

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