Example sentences for: citizens

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

  • Citizens of Porto are very proud of their association with Henry, especially since their city was where the fleet for the 1415 assault on Ceuta was fitted out.

  • An editorial chides the members of the House of Representatives for banning citizens from bringing ethics complaints against them.

  • [T]he magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one who (inheriting inferior endowments from nature and unpracticed in the duties of civil administration) ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies.

  • FBI field offices around the country were swamped by calls from concerned citizens.

  • An editorial points out that Saddam Hussein's current naughty actions (lying, subjugating his citizens, developing weapons of mass destruction) earned him U.S. support in the '80s.


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