How to Use the people in a Sentence
the people
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This one’s for the people in the back with the chrome hearts.
—Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 11 July 2024
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The captain of the boat, [the people] in the coffee shop.
—Patricia Alfonso Tortolani, Allure, 23 July 2024
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They should be made by the people who love these kids the most.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 24 Jan. 2024
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From the people who brought you the iPod, here come … some TV shows?
—Peter C. Baker, New York Times, 6 June 2024
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Jerome Powell, Janet Yellen—to the people, to the modern chairmen and -women of the Fed.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Oct. 2020
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Thank you to all the people who love me no matter what.
—Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 17 Apr. 2023
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The car was a wedding present from the people of Monaco to the couple.
—Erin Hill, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
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Here’s a look at the people with a lot of it who are shaping the region.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
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This is done the right way for the people paying money to come and see her.
—Ariana Garcia, Chron, 22 Mar. 2023
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Her group spoke with some of the people who went on strike in Kansas City.
—Marley Jay, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2023
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Many of the people involved didn’t know what the heat index was.
—Micki Olson, The Conversation, 5 June 2024
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The guy was oozing charisma, and had charmed the people around him out of their wits.
—Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 29 Apr. 2024
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Sellers are still seeking the sky-high prices of 2021, the people said.
—Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024
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Buckle up, and welcome to the rest of the story—told by the people at the center of it all.
—Corey Seymour, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2023
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To these unlucky souls, add the people locked up in our prisons and jails.
—Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
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Errors in how the trades were recorded took days to resolve, the people said.
—Joe Rennison, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
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Most of the people in our government argue in the truth, argue in the law, argue in the courts, and respect the work of the press.
—Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
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Rescuers said the people had tried to drive across a flooded road when they got stuck in the water.
—Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
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The fact that the people who make The Bear like to play our songs on The Bear, that’s very exciting and very rewarding.
—Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 9 Nov. 2023
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Positive thinking brings out the best in the people around you.
—Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2023
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The sheriff is the last stance against the federal government to protect the rights of the people.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
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For 72 hours, the people on TV kept saying, Trump’s coming.
—Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
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Arlan reminds me that the people who are supposed to be on the journey with you will find their way to you.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2024
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Shupe is part of a larger movement to make copyright law friendlier to AI and the people who use it.
—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 17 Apr. 2024
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At the time of the call, officers were unable to find the people involved, police said.
—Emily Davies, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
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Only about one-quarter of the people who live nearest me are white.
—Shaun Harper, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
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At the center of the procedural fight is the U.S.-Mexico border and the people who have crossed it in record numbers.
—Deirdre Walsh, NPR, 17 Apr. 2024
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But the people on either side of that distance have to be willing to meet halfway.
—Roxane Gay, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
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In Deuteronomy, Moses frames the law for the people in exactly those terms.
—Dominic Pino, National Review, 25 Dec. 2023
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Even as the people around her struggled to pull her from the water, other swimmers just down the coast waded into the water, unaware of what was coming.
—Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2024
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