How to Use the public in a Sentence

the public

noun
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  • This once-a-year event is kid-friendly and open to all members of the public.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Video has not been widely released online for the public.
    — Jessica Wang and Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The Oakland City Hall only last month reopened itself to the public.
    — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Hillsboro police released no additional details but said there was no ongoing threat to the public.
    — Bslovic, oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2023
  • To that end, the Trump campaign is clearly intent on yoking her with Biden in the public imagination.
    — Jay Cost, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Katie Prout’s essay implores readers in Chicago to see unhoused people living on the city’s trains as vulnerable members of the public, not as threats.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Stricker’s Grove, which is usually rented out for company picnics, church festivals and school groups, will open to the public Sunday, noon-8 p.m.
    — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Howard worried that the truth might soon be out of the public reach.
    — Michael S. Williamson, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
  • Although the tents are set to the side of the street, they’re still exposed to the public at all hours.
    — Diego Nicolás Argüello, Pitchfork, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Drag isn't what alarmists are trying to tell the public.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The event is free and open to the public, according to a news release.
    — Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the air district said, the public had full access to the park.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The app, which raised $1.65 million in pre-seed funding, will launch to the public this fall.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The event was open to the public, but on the guest list was a list of cool girls in Paris for all the festivities.
    — Sam Sussman, Vogue, 22 June 2024
  • Members of the public were given one minute each to speak.
    — Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The state seized control of the park and sealed off access to the public and federal agents.
    — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Those charged with protecting wildlife and the public know this.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2024
  • And those are just the examples that are easiest for the public to make some sense of.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The facility is open to the public throughout the year.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The shoreline was preserved, and the lighthouse fully restored and opened to the public.
    — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • My job would be what the public assume a director does on a show.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2023
  • The concert is set to begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are available to the public now at Ticketmaster.com.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Despite our kayak launch site being a public park, this area has been closed to the public for months.
    — Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Kate Middleton and Prince William are starting 2024 out of the public eye.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The oldest Black School in America will reopen to the public this year.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The Bryant statue will be open to the public on Friday, beginning at 10 a.m.
    — Chris Barilla, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Deputies also asked for the help of the public in finding family members who could claim the box.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
  • And the public as a whole has been deprived of the benefits of open and fair and free competition.
    — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Airbnb constructed its very own Dream House in Malibu and posted it for rent to the public.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 9 July 2023
  • No staff or other inmates were injured and at no time was the public in danger.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2023

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