Sentence examples for local called from inspiring English sources

Last year, a Times blog, The Local, called the mall an "epicenter" of crime in its neighborhood, Fort Greene.

I found a shady spot beyond the fray to consult my guidebook, where a local called Carlos invited me to join him in conversation to practise his English.

The growth of the "scrapyard", as one local called it, is driven not by choice, but by a lack of it.

The owner of the guesthouse, a local called Lot Ram, known to police for his recent prison term for robbery, was one.

There's a legend that San Francisco was built in one night after a local called Cantuña made a pact with the devil: the devil built it down to the last stone, but Cantuña gave his soul in exchange.

One local called it the "Brighton of the north" and, while it lacks the tiny details of a beach, prom and pier (they're just down the road in its almost-twin town Morecambe), I know exactly what he means.

Locals called it the moors.

The locals called it Mystic Lake.

(Locals called the proposed construction the "garage mahal").

The locals called me "Nanga" which means "naked".

Locals called them, derisively, the Nazarenes, and the name stuck.