How to Use citizen in a Sentence

citizen

noun

• She was a United States citizen but lived most of her life abroad.
• Israel has warned its citizens against attending sporting events abroad.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
• The measure was placed on the ballot in 1958 by citizen initiative.
  — Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 26 Nov. 2024
• In effect, for a mess of pottage, a public school sold an inflated but permanent artistic legacy to a private citizen.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2022
• The White House did not immediately confirm that any Chinese citizens had been returned home.
  — Eric Tucker and Aamer Madhani, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
• California’s choice to resist potential policies that are threatening to its citizens is very necessary.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
• More than a year after voters created it, is Cleveland close to seating a citizen police commission to oversee police discipline?
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 2 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
• 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
• 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
• When the guns were identified from crimes or seizures, it was determined that they had been used in the killings of more than 150 Mexican citizens.
  — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024