How to Use czar in a Sentence

czar

noun

• It was built in France for the Russian czar’s Moscow palace ...
  — Rick Steves, Sun Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2022
• It was first referred to as a pogrom, the name used for attacks on Russian Jews during the time of the czars.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
• Past goes the parade, with the unclad czar atop the float, and, though the vast majority can see the ruse, few say a word.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 27 June 2023
• And then the czar stuff, is that at every point Putin has tried to legitimize himself.
  — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
• Even streetwear czars like Off-White have branched out from sneakers into easy boots and boat shoes.
  — Faran Krentcil, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
• Everyone from the czar’s wife to the lowliest serf might turn to magic at some juncture in their lives.
  — Valerie Kivelson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2022
• One of his colleagues, Lou Semione, had just been made the district’s energy czar.
  — Brian Klaas, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Nov. 2021
• New York City has appointed a rat czar to tackle the city's rat problem.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
• His title only hints at his status as the chip czar at Apple.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 22 Oct. 2021
• On its way to the czar in 1916, so the story goes, the shipment was sunk by a German U-boat and recovered by Finnish divers decades later.
  — Alexandra Peers, CNN, 13 July 2022
• Not everyone thinks a football czar position at Halas Hall is the best route for the team.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 27 Dec. 2021
• John Kerry is Joe Biden’s czar on global climate change.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 17 Oct. 2022
• There have been cries for a college commissioner, a czar, but good luck with that — bonne chance, getting back that chip on the table.
  — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2022
• The White House drug czar said businesses, such as restaraunts and banks, and schools will be encouraged to purchase over-the-counter naloxone.
  — Nadia Kounang, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
• Monday’s rules were released about a month after the Department of Health hired Christopher Kimball to serve as the state’s new pot czar.
  — Dara Kam, Sun Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2022
• The Catholic church was persecuted under the czar as well as Communism.
  — WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
• Another role to coordinate, drive, lead, perhaps in a czar-like fashion, call the shots of who does what.
  — CBS News, 24 Nov. 2021
• For advocates like Hockley and the Olivers, that means appointing a gun czar, which the president has yet to do.
  — Mac Schwerin, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2022
• Mitch Landrieu made his national bow as infrastructure czar this week, and the money is headed out to the states.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2022
• Wyatt CultureWorks’s czar can get you that rez at Veronika.
  — Jason Farago, Town & Country, 28 Sep. 2022
• Gupta, a former West Virginia public health official, would be the first physician to fill the drug czar role if he's confirmed.
  — Maegan Vazquez, CNN, 30 Sep. 2021
• Russia has been the main threat to the independence of Central Asian republics since Peter the Great, the czar in the early eighteenth century.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
• Russia’s last czar, Nicholas II, had been killed along with his family four years earlier.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• For more than two decades before his election as pope in 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was the Vatican’s anti-abuse czar.
  — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2022
• In the early 20th century, The Times regularly tut-tutted over antisemitism abroad, and deplored the pogroms that the Russian czar waged.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• When Democrats urged the president to appoint a czar to tackle gun violence, his team responded that Rice was already in place to take on the issue.
  — Emma Hinchliffe and paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 14 June 2022
• This time, Doctoroff is selling a long menu of policy changes that includes a mighty push for more and better public space, to be led by a new city czar of the public realm.
  — Curbed, 15 Dec. 2022
• Maybe the next governor can appoint a youth sports czar whose goal is to raise participation numbers.
  — Dan McGowan, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2022
• The job went from pledge to reality when Herring was tapped as the state's first diversity czar in November.
  — Justin L. MacK, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Oct. 2021
• Her great-grandson, Alexei Nikolaevich, the only son of the last czar of Russia and heir to the throne, was afflicted with hemophilia B.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024