Example sentences for: citizenship

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

  • In May 1997, an INS audit of the 1.1 million people who were granted citizenship between September 1995 and September 1996 revealed 4,946 cases "in which criminal arrest should have disqualified an applicant or in which an applicant lied about his or her criminal history."

  • 5 million green-card holders resident in the United States in 1996 were eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship.)

  • And the fictional Winnie-the-Pooh was named for the real bear, a bear born in Canada who never relinquished his Canadian citizenship.

  • The universalist language of the Declaration of Independence hardly dovetails with the parochial category of citizenship in a particular governmental polity.

  • And even before he became president, in a speech in 1916, Harding had said, "In the great fulfillment we must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation."


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