How to Use public figure in a Sentence

public figure

noun

• There was a push to be a public figure because her voice helped sell books.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 30 June 2025
• Douglass is the first public figure to be profiled in the enlarged gallery.
  — Janelle Harris Dixon, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
• Joker is a public figure, and so his fans assume that Arthur belongs to them too.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2024
• But this is still a very important, very public figure.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 20 May 2024
• Yet the sense of Frost as a public figure, celebrity and especially as a human being has been lost over the years.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2024
• Hicks is not the most public figure in the Defense Department, instead opting to work behind the scenes.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2024
• The judge also observed that Sabatini is likely to be found to be a public figure.
  — Bymeredith Wadman, science.org, 6 Apr. 2023
• Lower courts had said the producer wasn’t a public figure.
  — Jennifer Peltz, Fortune, 23 June 2023
• My former husband is not a celebrity or public figure, nor are any of the letter writers.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• The woman's name has not been revealed, but she has been described as a real-life public figure from India.
  — Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 25 July 2024
• As a public figure, prevailing on a defamation claim is a herculean task.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Dec. 2024
• If and when a public figure decides to open up about their body (which they are not obligated to!) is completely up to them.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 25 July 2023
• One public figure to have faced backlash from the world No. 2 is Elon Musk, who has repeatedly dismissed the game as too simple.
  — Jamie Barton, CNN, 20 Oct. 2024
• In spite of his brief time in office, Scaramucci has remained a public figure and been very critical of Trump at times.
  — Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
• Biles was careless with her words while having a back-and-forth with another public figure who is also an adult.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 12 June 2025
• But the best was Yang as Rep. George Santos, a public figure whose real-life deceptions are tough to top as comedy.
  — Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• Being the spouse of the Patriots starting QB – especially one such as Maye who has been given the keys to the franchise – makes one a public figure.
  — Bill Speros, Boston Herald, 25 June 2025
• Billy was in high school when his dad started becoming a bonafide public figure.
  — Angela Andaloro, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
• Hoover has come to realize that being a public figure comes with tremendous pressure.
  — Lucy Feldman, Time, 10 July 2023
• His remarks—barely five hundred words—turned him into a revered public figure.
  — Lincoln Caplan, The New Yorker, 4 July 2024
• The singer-songwriter isn't the only public figure who has been candid about her struggles with the autoimmune disease.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2024
• Since the 2019 interview, Prince Andrew has remained a public figure.
  — Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2024
• Ohtani, 29, has always been shrouded in secrecy as a public figure.
  — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• Gabbard came to Trump’s administration as a public figure who was well-versed in the media ecosystem.
  — Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 14 Mar. 2025
• As a public figure, so many people follow and listen to my every word.
  — Anna Peele, Vanity Fair, 27 Jan. 2026
• That scrutiny should not extend to my children or any other child of a public figure.
  — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
• But as a public figure, once one person knew chances are everyone was going to find out.
  — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Jan. 2026
• Zeidler was not a public figure like Clooney.
  — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 21 Dec. 2025
• Bessent is not a natural public figure.
  — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 8 Dec. 2025
• But as McRae’s star began to rise, so did the interest in her as a public figure.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 4 Dec. 2025