How to Use civil servant in a Sentence

civil servant

noun

• Drivers typically wait three hours for gasoline, and civil servants line up all morning to receive part of their salaries in cash.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2019
• His mother was a teacher; his father, a civil servant reduced by the Depression to doing odd jobs.
  — Paul Goldberger, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2019
• Protesters from all walks of life participated: young, old, bankers, lawyers, teachers, priests and pastors, civil servants, and more.
  — Helen Raleigh, National Review, 15 Aug. 2019
• On Friday, a group of civil servants will hold a rally demanding an independent inquiry and for Lam to respond to protesters.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2019
• His mother was a geography and French teacher, and his father a civil servant who ended up selling inks and glue to get by during the Great Depression.
  — NBC News, 21 July 2019
• 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
• 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 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
• The results were disastrous, suggesting what might happen if Trump manages to replace thousands of civil servants with political appointees.
  — TIME, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024