How to Use civil servant in a Sentence

civil servant

noun

• 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
• Vetting of the civil servants began in the last week, the official said.
  — Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Since then Hamas has run the coastal strip as a separate fief, with its own civil servants and police.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
• Beyond making sure that the director of the CDC is a civil servant again?
  — Karl Vick, Time, 3 May 2021
• For a moment, the only sounds were the hurried prayers of the civil servants mumbling under their breath.
  — Rukmini Callimachi, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Walmart Brazil was barred at the time from hiring civil servants.
  — CBS News, 20 June 2019
• Thousands of journalists, politicians and civil servants have been thrown in jail or fired from their jobs in the years since the coup took place.
  — Cristina Maza, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2018
• With all the churn, one civil servant remained on duty.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
• He is known for being a smart, loyal civil servant with a wry sense of humor.
  — Sabra Ayres, latimes.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• 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
• But civil servants are not waiting around for that to happen.
  — Simon Shuster, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025
• 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
• To that end, being as strict as possible — in the hope that career civil servants will quit — will serve Trump’s ends.
  — Matthew Yglesias, The Mercury News, 18 Dec. 2024
• His father, an Indian civil servant, once hung a poster of Karl Marx in his room.
  — Matt Day, The Seattle Times, 25 Sep. 2017
• 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
• That maneuver went at the heart of what was regarded as a sacrosanct tenet in American government: that civil servants remain outside partisan politics and can’t be fired without due process.
  — Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 9 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 8 Mar 2025