How to Use citizen in a Sentence

citizen

noun

• She was a United States citizen but lived most of her life abroad.
• This is the second French citizen killed in the war in Ukraine in less than one week.
  — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 3 June 2022
• At the center of the tragedy was a 17-year-old Israeli citizen, Tiran Fero.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022
• Crooked Joe has a 40-year record of trying to rip firearms out of the hands of law-abiding citizens.
  — Adriana Gomez, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2024
• The press, which defends freedom of the press, does nothing to free this citizen.
  — David Biller and Tatiana Pollastri, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2023
• My response is that the parties are what citizens make of them.
  — Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
• But months would go by without any sign of the U.S. citizen who was born in Shanghai.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 4 Sep. 2022
• The lack of investment in these areas has put a brake on the hopes and dreams of countless citizens.
  — Selika Josiah Talbott, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
• At the same time, her husband, who is a French citizen, needed to leave the U.S. when his visa expired.
  — Andrea Castillostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2022
• At the time, Trump was just a private citizen, so the clause clearly didn’t apply.
  — Zach Everson, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• The charges were brought by his ex-wife, Svetlana, a Russian citizen.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 16 Sep. 2022
• No citizen of good conscience should stay on the sidelines.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 21 July 2024
• Be a good citizen and a good mom and a good wife, and that’s more important than being a good actress.
  — Jeff Conway, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• 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
• And, in fact, they are obligated to respond to the needs of the nation, as determined by the citizens at the polls.
  — Ryan Shaw / Made By History, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
• Schieve, who filed the lawsuit as a private citizen, shared an image of the device with the paper.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 17 Dec. 2022
• 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
• She was born and grew up in Tijuana but is a U.S. citizen through her father.
  — Sandra Dibble, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2022
• The burden of proof, says Professor Bonnie, is usually on the court to keep them, not the citizen to get them back.
  — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 May 2022
• Fredi, as colleagues call her, was born in Germany and is now a U.K. citizen.
  — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• The citizen gave these items to one of Eliza Fletcher's family members, who then turned them over to the police.
  — Fox News, 5 Sep. 2022
• Who wants to be treated like a second-class citizen in their own country?
  — Marissa Charles, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2022
• 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
• One of Derossi's clients, Igor Makushinksy, is a Ukrainian citizen.
  — Riley Farrell, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2022
• That, to me, should be offensive to every citizen of the state of Indiana.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
• That calculus could change if the provider is a tribal citizen.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 26 June 2022
• One of the three people who died was a 14-year-old boy and Indian citizen, while his 10-year-old sister is the individual still missing, prosecutors said.
  — Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 7 May 2025
• Opposition parties, civil-society groups, ex-generals, and other citizens filed suit, asking the supreme court to block Bar’s dismissal.
  — Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2025