How to Use citizen in a Sentence

citizen

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  • She was a United States citizen but lived most of her life abroad.
  • Schieve, who filed the lawsuit as a private citizen, shared an image of the device with the paper.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Since former President Trump is now a private citizen, what is the point of releasing them to the public?
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Trump is hardly the first ex-president to struggle with life as a private citizen after the heady experience of holding the world’s most powerful job.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Terrance Moore was a returning citizen who first raised the notion of an organizing institute with Bread for the City.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Instead, board member Anita Hanna, acting as a private citizen, petitioned the city to give the wall landmark status.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Darmanin said the gunman, whom police did not name, was a French citizen who had never been flagged by French intelligence services and did not belong to any known far-right extremist groups.
    — Aurelien Breeden, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Crooked Joe has a 40-year record of trying to rip firearms out of the hands of law-abiding citizens.
    — Adriana Gomez, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2024
  • The press, which defends freedom of the press, does nothing to free this citizen.
    — David Biller and Tatiana Pollastri, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2023
  • My response is that the parties are what citizens make of them.
    — Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
  • The lack of investment in these areas has put a brake on the hopes and dreams of countless citizens.
    — Selika Josiah Talbott, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • No citizen of good conscience should stay on the sidelines.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 21 July 2024
  • Be a good citizen and a good mom and a good wife, and that’s more important than being a good actress.
    — Jeff Conway, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Rodriguez, who is not a U.S. citizen, cannot vote in next year’s election.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • There are thousands of U.S. citizens caught up in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
    — Ryan Lucas, NPR, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The corruption, the greed — those are the things that have hurt the citizens, especially here in Detroit.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Fredi, as colleagues call her, was born in Germany and is now a U.K. citizen.
    — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
  • This week marks 58 years since the signing of the VRA, and for all the progress our country has made, every American citizen still does not have their right to vote.
    — Rotimi Adeoye, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • This form of welfarism, Ms. Aiyar says, shifts the balance of power between citizens and the state.
    — Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2024
  • That, to me, should be offensive to every citizen of the state of Indiana.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
  • His wife, Vida, also a U.S. citizen, was in Iran at the time of his detention and was barred from leaving the country.
    — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Close to two-thirds of them were American citizens held without due process.
    — Tamiko Nimura, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Some of these immigrants have lived in the U.S. for decades and now have American citizen children.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 12 June 2023
  • Israel was able to tell its citizens to prepare to take shelter.
    — Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, TIME, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Although there are some exemptions, every Israeli citizen over the age of 18 is required to serve in the IDF.
    — Jeremy Diamond, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Detailed plans to keep our citizens safe and alive in the worst-case scenario now falls to local law enforcement.
    — Christina Avery, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2024
  • How the citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina try to help For the families of the deceased, there is often no closure.
    — Ingrid Gercama, NPR, 27 Apr. 2024
  • He was buried as a private citizen at Tatoi cemetery, a royal estate north of Athens.
    — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2023
  • No matter how divided U.S. politics may feel, tens of millions of citizens will all do the same thing today — exercise their right to vote.
    — Aïda Amer, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
  • But in the end, constitutions are only as strong as the willingness of people—politicians, judges, civil servants, business leaders, and ordinary citizens—to defend them.
    — Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024

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