How to Use czar in a Sentence
czar
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The long reign of a czar ends, and is followed by turmoil, a war of all against all.
—Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2018
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It was built in France for the Russian czar’s Moscow palace ...
—Rick Steves, Sun Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2022
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The three brothers became officers and went to the front to fight for the czar.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2018
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Biden, at a Texas rally, said that O’Rourke will be his gun czar.
—Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 3 Mar. 2020
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Who got the short end of the stick, and who will be thanking the scheduling czar’s come March and April?
—Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 13 Aug. 2019
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She's had a chance to be the border czar and failed miserably.
—ABC News, 27 Oct. 2024
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It was first referred to as a pogrom, the name used for attacks on Russian Jews during the time of the czars.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
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Past goes the parade, with the unclad czar atop the float, and, though the vast majority can see the ruse, few say a word.
—Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 27 June 2023
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In his portrait, the corporate czar sits in a chair with one hand splayed and the other clenched.
—Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2020
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Winter Palace, the gaudy home where the czar lived, Trump had his apartment redone.
—Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2020
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And then the czar stuff, is that at every point Putin has tried to legitimize himself.
—CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
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Two years before, Jacob’s brother Misha had escaped the wrath of the czar.
—Steve West, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Dec. 2019
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Even streetwear czars like Off-White have branched out from sneakers into easy boots and boat shoes.
—Faran Krentcil, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
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He was tapped by Gov. Greg Abbott as the state's recovery czar.
—Lindsay Ellis, Houston Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
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Everyone from the czar’s wife to the lowliest serf might turn to magic at some juncture in their lives.
—Valerie Kivelson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2022
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Mulvaney was elected to the House in 2011 before he was tapped to serve as Trump's budget czar last year.
—Dartunorro Clark, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2018
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And there's been enough drugs on her watch as border czar, fentanyl, to come in through the border to kill everybody in the world.
—CBS News, 28 July 2024
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One of his colleagues, Lou Semione, had just been made the district’s energy czar.
—Brian Klaas, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Nov. 2021
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New York City has appointed a rat czar to tackle the city's rat problem.
—Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
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There needs to be someone (a czar) who is saying, this is good idea, or this is a really bad idea.
—Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 11 Sep. 2020
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His title only hints at his status as the chip czar at Apple.
—Steven Levy, Wired, 22 Oct. 2021
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Her mother had three brothers once, White officers in the last czar’s army.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2018
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Pacquiao’s workout czar Justin Fortune pointed at the scene and laughed.
—Greg Bishop, SI.com, 21 July 2019
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Still, in the end the cossacks work for the czar — which is a way of saying that the policies of the Trump administration come from Trump himself.
—Evan Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2018
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Lu was abruptly dismissed from his job as cyber czar last June.
—Clay Chandler, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2018
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On its way to the czar in 1916, so the story goes, the shipment was sunk by a German U-boat and recovered by Finnish divers decades later.
—Alexandra Peers, CNN, 13 July 2022
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Not everyone thinks a football czar position at Halas Hall is the best route for the team.
—Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 27 Dec. 2021
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Walker, who has a son of his own, is Ghetto Gastro’s flavor czar.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 29 May 2018
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The promises of retribution were at the fore, too, including for former health czar Anthony Fauci, who received a preemptive pardon from Biden in his final hours.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 20 Jan. 2025
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By creating the position of border czar, which is not an official Cabinet role, Trump was able to get Homan into a position of power without needing the Senate's approval.
—Kyler Alvord, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025
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