How to Use citizenry in a Sentence

citizenry

noun

• That is not to say the citizenry could not prevail in such an event.
  — Steve Meyer, Alaska Dispatch News, 18 Oct. 2017
• Much of the citizenry is aware, at least in broad strokes, of how the man became a billionaire.
  — SI.com, 17 Dec. 2017
• The soul of its citizenry is open to building bridges to one another.
  — The Rev. David Anderson, Columbia Flier, 14 Sep. 2017
• What’s new is the shift to online systems, making things easier for the citizenry but also for saboteurs.
  — Jonathan Lai, Philly.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• As Rome senses a devastating tempest on the way, the citizenry grows restive.
  — Misha Berson, The Seattle Times, 19 Sep. 2017
• Both ran deeply corrupt regimes that trampled opponents and terrorized their own citizenry.
  — Mark Bowden, Philly.com, 24 Sep. 2017
• An informed and engaged citizenry is the fundamental requirement for a free and resilient nation.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 21 Dec. 2017
• Such people made money but did not spend it, creating a thrifty, hard-working, literate, self-denying citizenry who drove forward the economies of their countries.
  — The Economist, 4 Nov. 2017
• One measure of the depth of the dish’s reach is, paradoxically, the citizenry’s offhand near-obliviousness to its origin.
  — Jim Shahin, charlotteobserver, 6 Oct. 2017
• With all of this, there are two reasons why Rossomanno has become the symbol of a police force that has no intention of protecting and serving its citizenry.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 19 Oct. 2017
• And there are many accounts of her visits to a restaurant known to the citizenry as the Bear.
  — Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• The citizenry is jacked up with contempt, and over the idea of true romance.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 29 Sep. 2019
• Fox’s dissemination of propaganda has dire consequences for the health of our democracy, the foundation of which is an informed citizenry.
  — Lauren Duca, Teen Vogue, 3 Nov. 2017
• The cry of the citizenry is a prophetic message: Where there is no justice, there will be no peace!
  — Kweku Ramel Akyirefi Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2020
• The question is what bad feelings will linger among the citizenry.
  — Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2020
• The result is a citizenry that does not agree on basic facts, and many of whom distrust the system.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 20 Feb. 2018
• The first step in controlling the citizenry for your own gain is attacking the press.
  — Time, 3 Oct. 2022
• The job of members of the government is to minimize the citizenry’s grief.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Aug. 2019
• As a result, the ill-informed citizenry has been left unmoored, leading to the rise in the U.S. and elsewhere of right-wing populists.
  — oregonlive, 9 Sep. 2019
• The United States has a moral imperative to help Ukraine win the war that Russia brought to its citizenry.
  — Michael A. Newton, CNN, 15 Mar. 2022
• None of this passive culling of the citizenry was done on principle, and it certainly wasn’t done for you.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2021
• The denizens of this bus stop in particular seem as good a litmus test as any for the health and sanity of our citizenry.
  — Elisa Albert, Longreads, 7 May 2018
• Oliver said the clear direction from the citizenry when he was elected to the fire board was to partner with Clackamas.
  — oregonlive, 5 Nov. 2020
• Somehow, she was beloved by a fair portion of the local citizenry.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 9 June 2020
• Alas, the last few years have brought with them a surfeit of self-flagellation that the more grounded among the citizenry would do well to resist.
  — The Editors, National Review, 4 July 2022
• Northern lights There is little pressure from the citizenry to do more.
  — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
• The question of whether the monarchy survives beyond Elizabeth II is open to debate and up to the British citizenry.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2019
• This should be a grave concern to anyone who cares about an informed citizenry.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2018
• In response, Erdogan will shift posture and seek to once again instill fear in the citizenry, trying to appear strong and in command.
  — Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2023
• Perhaps now Sri Lankans (the first citizenry to elect a female national leader) will stop snickering.
  — Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 26 July 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024