How to Use municipal in a Sentence

municipal

1 of 2 adjective
  • Most of those were financed with the help of municipal bonds.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 15 June 2026
  • Most of those were financed with the help of municipal bonds.
    — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 16 June 2026
  • The toll of that erosion has been felt by many cities and towns, municipal leaders say.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2026
  • To make matters worse, the municipal plows have come through and cleared the streets of eight inches of snow.
    — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • The municipal elections are starting in two and a half weeks.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The municipal water had been cut off from our area for some time because of a lack of fuel.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The club is a municipal, but comes off like a hybrid of muni and private.
    — Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The recreation area also is home to a municipal skating rink and ski hill.
    — Stacy Conde, Midwest Living, 30 Dec. 2025
  • As is often the case for municipal judge elections, no one filed as a challenger.
    — Jim Riccioli, jsonline.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The tax cut does not include the local and municipal taxes on food.
    — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
  • Along with the state funding, the new build is be paid for out of municipal bonds over a four to five year period.
    — Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The bill would also require a statewide report on municipal camps.
    — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Maybe our new mayor will lace up and score a goal for the borough, a permanent, municipal rink.
    — Cary Goodman, New York Daily News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Yet, like a municipal judge, a mayor can impose fines or sentence people to jail.
    — Samantha Sunne, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Gim said tents set up on municipal sports fields to house migrants were already being removed.
    — Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That means municipal bond interest can count, too.
    — James Brewer, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Low turnout is common in municipal elections across the country.
    — Sean Richey, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Around the country, schools, municipal buildings and streets bear Chavez's name.
    — Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 20 Mar. 2026
  • But his slate was utterly destroyed in the municipal elections two months ago.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 14 Jan. 2026
  • But Wimmer's story is about much more than nearly eight years as municipal judge.
    — Jim Riccioli, jsonline.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Check your city’s website for even more options such as municipal aquatic centers.
    — Norma Cavazos, Dallas News, 13 July 2023
  • The city, like most, doesn’t usually see many people turn out for municipal elections.
    — Rachel Royster may 5, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 May 2026
  • Concern about municipal tax increases has been widespread across the state this year.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026
  • That's one of the reasons why those state budgets or why those county and city budgets municipal budgets have gone up.
    — March 8, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Your municipal recycling system gets the final say as to what belongs in your bin.
    — Chris Baskind, Treehugger, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Davis is a member of a municipal risk pool, so the city will only pay a small amount of the judgment before the costs shift to the risk pool.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • This still makes for the largest municipal sanitation force in the country.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • People can read the full ordinance online in the municipal code.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The pair helped the sick find medicine and guided others through the labyrinth of municipal bureaucracy.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
  • Mayors and municipal councilors are elected for six years.
    — Arkansas Online, 23 Mar. 2026

municipal

2 of 2 noun
  • In fact, Dan Close, head of municipals at Nuveen, believes the muni bond rally could be in early stages.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Here’s an in-depth look at voter turnout data for the election, including turnout compared to past municipals, turnout levels across the city and what age groups showed up at the highest rates.
    — Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
  • That means upgrading airports by expanding terminals, as well as adding more runways, towers and gates, said Daniel Close, the firm’s head of municipals.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Though city commissioners opted not to take action against the Chamber’s headquarters, its unclear how the city’s municipal and business leaders will patch up their rift.
    — Lisa Maria Garza, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Medical transport should be a public municipal service free at the point of use—like fire protection or street cleaning—and yet has instead become another industry on the take.
    — Adam Gaffney, New Republic, 6 June 2017
  • Daniel Close, who currently leads Nuveen's taxable municipal bond arm, will become head of municipals.
    — Heather Gillers, WSJ, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Sifting through riskier issues Default rates for municipals, including those that aren’t investment grade, tend to be lower than what investors see in corporates.
    — Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 18 July 2024
  • Dan Close, head of municipals at Nuveen, said the sector is currently in a seasonally weak period due to its retail-heavy investor base filing tax returns.
    — Jesse Pound, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025
  • That is partly due to the fact that municipal and county achievements are often collective efforts and that Ciattarelli was in the minority in the Legislature.
    — Dustin Racioppi, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The result of the postponements of the May municipal and school elections would require the incumbents remain in office until the election in November and carry on as if nothing had changed.
    — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Sales-tax revenue bonds are secured, as the name suggests, by levies generated by sales and they are used to fund essential infrastructure, said Daniel Close, head of municipals at Nuveen.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Redistricting is the process of redrawing the boundaries of districts from the local municipal to congressional levels, which happens every 10 years using the latest census data.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2021
  • In addition to considering Treasury bonds as an alternative to municipals, investors in the highest income tax brackets should also consider corporate bonds.
    — Chris Gunster, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Federal funding helped the cities prepare for the big event, but much of the capital investment required will be funded by cities and states — and that is where municipal bonds come in, Dan Close, head of municipals at Nuveen, said in a recent report .
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 15 June 2026
  • Federal funding helped the cities prepare for the big event, but much of the capital investment required will be funded by cities and states — and that is where municipal bonds come in, Dan Close, head of municipals at Nuveen, said in a recent report.
    — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 16 June 2026
  • Municipal bonds have become a significant part of building new stadium projects because these undertakings are seen as an important part of the local economy, explained Dan Close, head of municipals at Nuveen.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Several rounds of federal stimulus and infrastructure legislation have helped state and local governments, even those with more strained budgets, improve to the best financial shape in years, Dan Close, head of municipals at Nuveen, said last week.
    — Shruti Singh, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2023

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