How to Use in public in a Sentence

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  • This risk may not even be confined to those caught acting poorly in public.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2024
  • There was a time he would not be affectionate in public.
    Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Allow your kid to quietly watch a show on an iPad in public?
    Zara Hanawalt, Parents, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Well, Martha, the president has to be really careful as this plays out in public.
    ABC News, 30 Apr. 2023
  • For example, face mask use appears to have gone the way of skinny jeans, with far fewer people wearing them in public.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Since then, Fonda has rarely appeared in public, save for a movie premiere in 2009.
    Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Xylazine can cause gruesome skin wounds and leave people in a vulnerable state if they are sedated in public.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Messages left with people identified as relatives in public records were not returned Wednesday night.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • This is all while our public servants remain underpaid and overburdened due to staffing shortages and an overall decline in public support.
    Paige Eichkorn, Arkansas Online, 1 May 2023
  • Consequently, hedge funders and private equity titans all seem to have her on speed dial whereas her own constituents have to stalk her in public to earn a moment of her time.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 1 May 2023
  • When a series of women are mysteriously found dead in public bathrooms, Bhaati is tasked with the investigation.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The company denies that and has expressed irritation that the UAW is pressing its issues in public.
    Adrienne Roberts, Detroit Free Press, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Johnson said the sales tax funding would be enough to address the city's unfunded pension liabilities and invest additional dollars in public safety.
    Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Outside of the impact recent legislative measures will have on drag performers, many fear that trans people could also be wrongly criminalized for expressing their gender in public.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The events were not taught in school and rarely discussed in public.
    Joe Heim, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The stuff people choose to wear in public boggles the mind.
    Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 6 Sep. 2024
  • This is the last time Catherine is seen in public for some time.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 27 Feb. 2024
  • They were spotted kissing in public for the first time the next day.
    Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 26 May 2024
  • He was last seen in public trying to board a train from Laos to Thailand.
    Tiffany May, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Strangers showed up at some of their homes and confronted some of them in public.
    CBS News, 16 Dec. 2023
  • People simply won’t wear masks all the time in public for months on end.
    David Leonhardt, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Ever been on the precipice of something great, only to fail — and fail hard, in public?
    Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 6 June 2023
  • Those hiccups have often played out in public view for the Pac-12.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
  • In the end, the two sides agreed to limit the use of the technology in public spaces with more guardrails.
    Jillian Deutsch, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Their confidence stays up along with the bra (no more having to hoist it up in public).
    Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The most frequent kind of mass killings this year, however, hasn’t been in public.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The two generals who were removed have not been seen in public for months.
    Dan De Luce, NBC News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • This wasn’t even rumored in the buildup to the show, and the Led Zeppelin guitarist has only played in public a handful of times over the past decade.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2023
  • It's been nearly 10 years since Simmons was last seen in public.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
  • There have been a couple times in my life when my fly was down in public and was informed by someone who cared.
    oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2023

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