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Example sentences for: citizen
How can you use “citizen” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Joseph, a 54-year-old naturalized citizen, turned to Legal Services when the landlord of his federally subsidized apartment complex in Elizabeth turned a deaf ear to his request for a ground-floor apartment.
Williams repeated, "As an American citizen, do you have a visceral reaction to seeing the Confederate flag?"
Setting maximum terms of between six and 12 years in office would function as an antidote to Potomac fever and restore the place of the "citizen legislator," whose loyalty would remain with the voters who elected him, not the institution in which he served.
In like manner, a French teacher is one who teaches French; a French teacher is a citizen of France who teaches something; a grave -digger is a cemetery employee; a grave digger is a solemn archaelogist or perhaps a single-minded dog with a bone; and a head shrinker is not a head -shrinker but a chief launderer of woolens.
The notion of the informed citizen puts too much pressure on individuals, where the cruder but more inspiring politics of the Gilded Age mobilized voters on Election Day.