How to Use citizen in a Sentence

citizen

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  • She was a United States citizen but lived most of her life abroad.
  • No citizen of good conscience should stay on the sidelines.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 21 July 2024
  • Stun guns should be legalized in NYC because citizens need to defend themselves.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 20 July 2024
  • My response is that the parties are what citizens make of them.
    — Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
  • Rodriguez, who is not a U.S. citizen, cannot vote in next year’s election.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • There are thousands of U.S. citizens caught up in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
    — Ryan Lucas, NPR, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The corruption, the greed — those are the things that have hurt the citizens, especially here in Detroit.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2023
  • This week marks 58 years since the signing of the VRA, and for all the progress our country has made, every American citizen still does not have their right to vote.
    — Rotimi Adeoye, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • This form of welfarism, Ms. Aiyar says, shifts the balance of power between citizens and the state.
    — Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2024
  • That, to me, should be offensive to every citizen of the state of Indiana.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
  • His wife, Vida, also a U.S. citizen, was in Iran at the time of his detention and was barred from leaving the country.
    — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Close to two-thirds of them were American citizens held without due process.
    — Tamiko Nimura, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Some of these immigrants have lived in the U.S. for decades and now have American citizen children.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 12 June 2023
  • Israel was able to tell its citizens to prepare to take shelter.
    — Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, TIME, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Although there are some exemptions, every Israeli citizen over the age of 18 is required to serve in the IDF.
    — Jeremy Diamond, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Detailed plans to keep our citizens safe and alive in the worst-case scenario now falls to local law enforcement.
    — Christina Avery, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2024
  • When the guns were identified from crimes or seizures, it was determined that they had been used in the killings of more than 150 Mexican citizens.
    — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 19 July 2024
  • WikiLeaks said Assange was expected to fly to Australia, where he was born and is a citizen.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 26 June 2024
  • Mild weather, gorgeous scenery, and welcoming citizens are a few of the reasons.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2023
  • Meanwhile, citizens are still fighting for the arts and historic preservation in the downtown.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Ten Israelis, including one who is also a U.S. citizen, were released as part of the soon-to expire deal.
    — WSJ, 30 Nov. 2023
  • By the time Air Force recruits finish their seven weeks of training, the process is complete and they are sworn in as American citizens.
    — Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
  • Her husband, a Mexican citizen, lives on the other side.
    — Miriam Jordan Rebecca Noble, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Gun sales were sizzling in the days leading up to Y2K, as industrious citizens planned in advance to meet the threat of violence with… the threat of violence.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2023
  • That said, with lower levels of recorded turnout compared to U.S.-born voters, challenges remain in getting new citizens to show up to the polls.
    — Elena Moore, NPR, 31 May 2024
  • Why Biden would need to be bribed into rigging an election in his own favor—and how Biden could achieve that as a private citizen—went unexplained.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Those protests spread across the continent to countries like Germany, Poland, and Spain, disrupting the day-to-day lives of millions of European citizens.
    — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 26 June 2024
  • He was joined in court by the former girlfriend, Muna Habib, a British citizen who met him in Pakistan while reporting there as a journalist.
    — Craig Whitlock, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Even El Salvador, which adopted bitcoin as legal tender in 2021, has had a hard time getting its citizens on board.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
  • While Israel has retrieved hostages and the remains of its citizens in the past, the scope and complexity of this hostage crisis is beyond anything the country has faced before.
    — Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023

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