How to Use civil servant in a Sentence

civil servant

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  • In 1950, at the age of twenty-four, the civil servant arrived from Guyana (then called British Guiana).
    — Colin Grant, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
  • The first wave of civil servants is scheduled to arrive next month.
    — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
  • None of them appeals to Mostafa, a 40-year-old civil servant who declined to give his last name.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2021
  • Lam wavered on masks, and even ordered civil servants not to wear them.
    — Zeynep Tufekci, The Atlantic, 12 May 2020
  • No one signs up to be a civil servant in hopes of trending on Twitter, after all.
    — Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Beyond making sure that the director of the CDC is a civil servant again?
    — Karl Vick, Time, 3 May 2021
  • Walmart Brazil was barred at the time from hiring civil servants.
    — CBS News, 20 June 2019
  • With all the churn, one civil servant remained on duty.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
  • Grace, the fair sister, is engaged to the astronomer’s son, a seething civil servant named Christian Thrale.
    — Alice Gregory, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
  • As a savvy civil servant, though, Abbe knew how to use this position to get results.
    — Chad Orzel, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Byron Calver, 38, a civil servant in Toronto who sat next to Ms. Dai, was not thrilled with his showing.
    — Siobhan Roberts Chloë Ellingson, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • For years, the longtime civil servant has insisted that Gore had more votes than then-Gov.
    — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 12 Nov. 2020
  • In June, the city’s highest court ruled that the government must give spousal benefits to a gay civil servant and his spouse.
    — Isabella Steger, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Blume is the civil servant in charge of fighting antisemitsm in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The assent had come from a civil servant who apparently didn’t see the harm.
    — New York Times, 29 July 2022
  • The Qatari aid covers the salaries of civil servants, buys fuel for the power grid and provides cash to needy families.
    — Lisa Cavazuti, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The man, a civil servant, declined to give his name because he was not allowed to speak to journalists.
    — Gamze Yilmazel, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • The number of civil servant positions in the central government will be cut by 5% over the next five years.
    — Laura He, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
  • All public services will be closed for the rest of January, and civil servants are advised to stay home.
    — Eric Cheung, CNN, 29 Jan. 2020
  • His father worked in nearby Fort Dix as a civil servant, and also played and taught trombone.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 May 2022
  • Fauci, a career civil servant, cannot be fired by Trump, except for cause.
    — Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Volodymyr Boyko, a civil servant and historian, showed me around the town center.
    — Tim Judah, The New York Review of Books, 28 Apr. 2022
  • So in 1976 when George Spitz, a civil servant and runner, proposed a marathon through all five boroughs, the time seemed almost right — if daunting.
    — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
  • He was expelled from school at 14 for failing to follow the rules and tried to land apprentice-level civil servant jobs, but couldn’t pass the tests.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2022
  • This month, civil servants on work-from-home orders were allowed to return to their office.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2020
  • This has long been a dream of ultra-conservatives and goes hand-in-hand with Trump/Project 2025 threats to fire civil servants if elected.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
  • This month, the authority managed to pay only 50 percent of the salaries of tens of thousands of civil servants.
    — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • Also on the way is a new show, Destined With You, which chronicles a romance between a lawyer and civil servant.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Tangent Vance has also been a major proponent of a key proposal in Project 2025 that Trump should overhaul the federal workforce to replace many career civil servants with political appointees.
    — Alison Durkee, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The results were disastrous, suggesting what might happen if Trump manages to replace thousands of civil servants with political appointees.
    — TIME, 23 Sep. 2024

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