Example sentences for: citizen

How can you use “citizen” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the summer of 1992, Holbrooke went to Bosnia as a private citizen, with a refugee aid organization, and saw horrors such as Muslims being driven out of the town of Banja Luka, where their families had lived for four centuries.

  • We didn't include the Hariri gift because it came from a non-American citizen.

  • The Washington Post goes with Israel's decision to permit the extradition of a 17-year-old back to Maryland to stand trial for a gruesome murder, despite his claim that he's an Israeli citizen.

  • I have been troubled by the use of African-American and AfroAmerican to describe the people in question, especially since a dear friend of mine, who is solid Caucasian, emigrated from South Africa and is now a citizen and thus is aptly described as an African-American!

  • The city's first citizen, the Lord Mayor, a woman, was forthright in her condemnation of the ban as petty.


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