How to Use republic in a Sentence

republic

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  • This time was, roughly, from the dawn of the republic to the middle of the 1980s.
    — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
  • That kind of tit-for-tat is the wrong way to run a republic.
    — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The ways of the wolf predate the founding of this republic.
    — Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, Twin Cities, 28 July 2019
  • In 2011, the new republic was formed, but peace didn’t hold.
    — Sira Thierij, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Our republic is of the people, by the people and for the people.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Many of these stretch back to the very beginning of the republic.
    — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
  • The republic got through the Trump ordeal, but only by the skin of our teeth.
    — Mark Medish, The New Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
  • And that's been done since the earliest days of the republic.
    — CBS News, 7 June 2020
  • Do republics have to be as small as those of ancient Greece?
    — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 11 Dec. 2017
  • The stakes for Trump and the republic can’t be overstated.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2020
  • Since when could a few kids get rid of the president of the republic?
    — Alaa Al Aswany, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • That, not the prospect that Trump will face a few years behind bars, is a far greater threat to the republic.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 13 June 2023
  • Who better to speak for the republic than the eastern black rail?
    — Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2022
  • For the American republic, the last, best hope of man on Earth.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Our republic has stood up to this test — thus far, at least.
    — Star Tribune, 27 Jan. 2021
  • Even under the republic, many Afghans didn’t get enough to eat.
    — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Biden and others are not wrong that the republic is in peril.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The push to become a republic began more than two decades ago.
    — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The former Soviet republic is one of the most wired nations in the world.
    — NBC News, 25 June 2019
  • Bonaparte was both the first and last president of the republic.
    — National Geographic, 7 Nov. 2016
  • The republic that has seen the most war is also one of poorest republics in the Russia.
    — Time, 23 Nov. 2022
  • But it's been that way almost since the beginning of the republic.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2017
  • This is not the way our republic is supposed to function.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2021
  • But the profound threat that Vladimir Putin poses to our republic is one.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The leadership doesn't act like the republic is on the line, or can't bring themselves to believe it.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 19 Nov. 2021
  • That was the year the first television arrived to the island republic.
    — Lee Daniel Kravetz, The Cut, 31 July 2017
  • The seals washed up on the coast of Russia’s republic of Dagestan, along the Caspian Sea, the largest landlocked body of water in the world.
    — Josh Pennington, CNN, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Here, voters had a historic choice to make: Vote to save the republic, or squander it.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Such a republic is not one in which citizens can take pride.
    — John Hatzis, National Review, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Old and young, liberal and moderate turn out for Harris and the republic is saved.
    — Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 31 July 2024

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