Example sentences for: state-run

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

  • Quietly, he bolsters his most radical opponents, giving them air time to grandstand on state-run television.

  • For the poorest kids, the state-run insurance program Medicaid helps.

  • In the first flush of dictatorship as First Consul, he established the Banque de France, created state-run lycées (high schools), and gave the country its first national set of laws, the Code Napoléon.

  • After a hiatus of 30 years, Christmas Day was restored as a public holiday in Cuba, but Trabajadores attacked state-run shops for stocking Christmas decorations and denounced Santa Claus as "the leading symbol of the hagiography of US mercantilism."

  • On Sept. 1, school beatings were banned from Britain's private schools, bringing them in line with state-run schools where caning was outlawed 13 years ago.


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