How to Use denizen in a Sentence

denizen

noun
  • Firearms are more common but denizens still fight with knives.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The action sports denizens would then snail mail the tapes to the agency.
    Daniel Kaplan, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Most are denizens of the bright and hot sun in just about any middle-of-the-road soil.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The denizens of Fort Bridger are all covered in dirt and grime.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • But the memo hasn’t been received by denizens of the digital world.
    Craig Timberg, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Some bought beer to lug home; other loyal denizens bellied up to the bar.
    Greg Trotter, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2017
  • With little else to do, a favourite pastime of its denizens was to share stories.
    A.a.k. | Mumbai, The Economist, 12 June 2019
  • At least half the camp’s several dozen denizens are children.
    Paul Schemm, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2017
  • But that doesn’t mean the show doesn’t include your favorite denizens of Ooo!
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • They are also meant to fight off denizens of the deep, like sharks and other predators.
    Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 27 Jan. 2020
  • The city's denizens have spent the last few years getting reacquainted with their home.
    Audrey Phoon, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Style caught up with a couple of the Napa denizens featured in the book.
    Catherine Bigelow, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Vampyr is the rare game that encouraged me not to kill its virtual denizens.
    Andrew Webster, The Verge, 8 June 2018
  • For the third row denizens there is the unexpected legroom and easy access.
    Al Haas, Philly.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Even the most curmudgeonly denizen will be drawn toward the child.
    Robert Barron, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The movie involves a revolt by denizens of the train's rear compartments.
    Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • This is Pan, minor Greek deity, denizen of fields, flocks and forests.
    William A. Wallace, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
  • This denizen of Beantown hadn’t passed out from the drink, however.
    Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Today, the Kalshi denizens have raised that number just two points, to 54%.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 June 2026
  • Summer is far from over, at least as far as the denizens of Cousins Beach are concerned.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The denizens of the deep are an exotic bunch even beyond their appetite for solid rock.
    NBC News, 7 Sep. 2019
  • The two are not the only Tinseltown denizens caught up in the scandal.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Jordan is believably in the mix with the other denizens of the restaurant.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Environmental groups say the mining rush is a threat to the dunes denizen.
    Christopher M. Matthews, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The hip denizens of LA's east side would surely perish without it.
    Alanna Bennett, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 June 2026
  • For the first time in years, denizens of the Golden State may be able do both deep into summer.
    Hugo Martin, latimes.com, 19 May 2017
  • Each denizen Robin stops to ask for help claims no knowledge of the major—and responds with disdain or worse.
    John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
  • Just one year ago, Pokémon Go was let loose upon the hapless denizens of Earth.
    Sebastian Anthony, Ars Technica, 5 July 2017
  • Wahbeh is not the first or even the hundredth denizen of the fine art world who has used the internet in ways that pissed off other artists.
    Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2020
  • As one of the show’s Minnesotan denizens might put it, Fargo season 4 looks like a heck of a doozy.
    Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2020

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