How to Use citizen in a Sentence

citizen

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  • She was a United States citizen but lived most of her life abroad.
  • At the center of the tragedy was a 17-year-old Israeli citizen, Tiran Fero.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Crooked Joe has a 40-year record of trying to rip firearms out of the hands of law-abiding citizens.
    — Adriana Gomez, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2024
  • The press, which defends freedom of the press, does nothing to free this citizen.
    — David Biller and Tatiana Pollastri, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2023
  • My response is that the parties are what citizens make of them.
    — Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
  • But months would go by without any sign of the U.S. citizen who was born in Shanghai.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 4 Sep. 2022
  • The lack of investment in these areas has put a brake on the hopes and dreams of countless citizens.
    — Selika Josiah Talbott, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • At the same time, her husband, who is a French citizen, needed to leave the U.S. when his visa expired.
    — Andrea Castillostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2022
  • The charges were brought by his ex-wife, Svetlana, a Russian citizen.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 16 Sep. 2022
  • No citizen of good conscience should stay on the sidelines.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 21 July 2024
  • Be a good citizen and a good mom and a good wife, and that’s more important than being a good actress.
    — Jeff Conway, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Rodriguez, who is not a U.S. citizen, cannot vote in next year’s election.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • There are thousands of U.S. citizens caught up in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
    — Ryan Lucas, NPR, 4 Apr. 2024
  • And, in fact, they are obligated to respond to the needs of the nation, as determined by the citizens at the polls.
    — Ryan Shaw / Made By History, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Schieve, who filed the lawsuit as a private citizen, shared an image of the device with the paper.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The corruption, the greed — those are the things that have hurt the citizens, especially here in Detroit.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Fredi, as colleagues call her, was born in Germany and is now a U.K. citizen.
    — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
  • The citizen gave these items to one of Eliza Fletcher's family members, who then turned them over to the police.
    — Fox News, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Who wants to be treated like a second-class citizen in their own country?
    — Marissa Charles, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2022
  • This week marks 58 years since the signing of the VRA, and for all the progress our country has made, every American citizen still does not have their right to vote.
    — Rotimi Adeoye, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • This form of welfarism, Ms. Aiyar says, shifts the balance of power between citizens and the state.
    — Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2024
  • One of Derossi's clients, Igor Makushinksy, is a Ukrainian citizen.
    — Riley Farrell, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2022
  • That, to me, should be offensive to every citizen of the state of Indiana.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
  • His wife, Vida, also a U.S. citizen, was in Iran at the time of his detention and was barred from leaving the country.
    — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Close to two-thirds of them were American citizens held without due process.
    — Tamiko Nimura, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Some of these immigrants have lived in the U.S. for decades and now have American citizen children.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 12 June 2023
  • The measure was placed on the ballot in 1958 by citizen initiative.
    — Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Israel was able to tell its citizens to prepare to take shelter.
    — Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, TIME, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The good citizen who had confronted Preston nursed a scorched sleeve.
    — Stacy Schiff, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Where are the unequivocal condemnations of the terrorists and the citizens of Gaza who lust for nothing more than blood and the death of Jews?
    — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2025

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