Example sentences for: people--

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

  • Anything you want to know about the sectarian ideological warfare of these quarrelsome people--Socialists, Stalinists, Trotskyites, Schactmanites, Lovestonites--you can find in masochistic detail.

  • Whenever I put in a good word for the global economy--pointing out that international trade is not the source of all misfortunes, or that low-wage exporting benefits many poor people--I can count on receiving a pile of hate mail.

  • (There is a whole industry of people--Eurologists?

  • Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, condemning the United States and saying he was "astonished" that nobody considered the sufferings of the Iraqi people--"[a]nd the UN, remember, was an institution created to protect the people."

  • In 1996, 596,000 people--65 percent of all green-card recipients--were "family-sponsored immigrants."


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