How to Use citizenship in a Sentence

citizenship

noun

• The students are learning the value of good citizenship.
• She applied for Polish citizenship.
• He was granted U.S. citizenship.
• First, move out of the U.S. and renounce your citizenship.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2023
• The cost of applying for U.S. citizenship is about to rise.
  — Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2024
• Cubans may apply for a green card after one year, putting them on a path to citizenship.
  — Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
• Democrats, meanwhile, want to give many migrants a faster path to citizenship.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
• One of the men has Dutch nationality, two were born in Lebanon and the fourth has Egyptian citizenship.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 14 Dec. 2023
• There, she was also set to receive honorary citizenship from the port city.
  — Carita Rizzo, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2023
• Two of the construction workers on the bridge had Guatemalan citizenship, according to the consulate of Guatemala, which did not release the workers’ names.
  — Brian Bushard, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• While the birthright citizenship provisions in Section 1 earned a lot of time in debate, Section 3 was also the subject of an intense back-and-forth on the floor.
  — Steven Portnoy, ABC News, 29 Dec. 2023
• He was ordered to wear an electronic bracelet for four months, take a citizenship class for €300 and remain employed.
  — Juliette Guéron-Gabrielle, New York Times, 4 July 2023
• Trump has revived his pledge to end birthright citizenship and his push to use the U.S. military to attack foreign drug cartels.
  — Jonathan J. Cooper, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2023
• Of course, there are places in the U.S. where citizenship and gun ownership are already closely entwined.
  — Jack McCordick, The New Republic, 13 June 2023
• The steady hum of scandals and quarrels was widely seen as undercutting Mr. Fayed’s quest to gain British citizenship.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• At times, Obama — who has said that false claims by Donald Trump about her husband’s citizenship led to threats to her family — seemed to be leaning away from her.
  — Mary Jordan, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
• He was ordered to wear an electronic bracelet for four months, take a citizenship class for 300 euros and remain employed.
  — Catherine Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
• Black people whose ancestors were enslaved by the Cherokee Nation can now apply for citizenship, the tribe’s top court ruled in 2021.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
• Instead, the ultra-wealthy are looking to renounce their U.S. citizenship to save on taxes.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
• At the time of his release, he would likely be deported to his country of citizenship, legal experts said.
  — Emma Tucker, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
• For many of us, staying informed is an obligation, a matter of conscience, of good citizenship.
  — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2023
• The bill contained no pathway to citizenship for those brought illegally to the United States as children, for instance.
  — Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2024
• The company mainly works with people between the ages of 35 and 65 who are looking for extra citizenship options.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 20 Mar. 2024
• The state’s continued prosecution of Freedmen amounts to a new chapter in their long struggle to receive all the rights of tribal citizenship.
  — Chris Cameron, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
• Ninety percent of the American people believe that the dreamers should have a pathway to citizenship.
  — CBS News, 26 Nov. 2023
• Foreigners would need to live in Taiwan for at least five consecutive years to gain citizenship.
  — Kanis Leung and Johnson Lai, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2024
• The new policy says that any asylum seekers who lack U.S. or Canadian citizenship and are caught within 14 days of crossing will be sent back across the border.
  — Wilson Ring, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2023
• Asylees have to wait a year after being granted asylum to apply for green cards, and at least five more years after that before applying for citizenship.
  — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 25 Mar. 2024
• Cherkasov was also suspected of planning to use his faked Brazilian heritage to seek Portuguese citizenship, granting him a foothold in the European Union.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
• Salah and his family immigrated to Sweden in 2017 and now hold Swedish citizenship.
  — Dalya Al Masri, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024