Example sentences for: public-

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

  • Commercial broadcasters backed the Federal Communications Commission set-aside of 80 coveted VHF licenses and 162 UHF licenses nationwide for public-TV broadcasters, but they did so out of self-interest.

  • The Ford Foundation seeded the public-TV idea with $300 million worth of grants between 1951 and 1976 in the hope that the feds would completely underwrite it thereafter (just as cities routinely assume responsibility for museums and libraries once philanthropists found them).

  • According to the 1998 National Summit on Retirement Savings, the nation must do a better job of educating the public- employers and individuals alike-about the importance of saving more today to secure the nation's retirement security.

  • Instead, in the early years of the public-TV experiment, PBS (which launched in 1969) and NET (which received no federal funds) aired the provocative programming they thought was their mission.

  • But better measures of importance are that a study should address a substantial clinical or public- health question, in as rigorous a way as possible, and the findings should be likely to have an effect on how other researchers think about the question.


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