How to Use citizenry in a Sentence

citizenry

noun
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  • That is not to say the citizenry could not prevail in such an event.
    — Steve Meyer, Alaska Dispatch News, 18 Oct. 2017
  • And there are many accounts of her visits to a restaurant known to the citizenry as the Bear.
    — Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The citizenry is jacked up with contempt, and over the idea of true romance.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Much of the citizenry is aware, at least in broad strokes, of how the man became a billionaire.
    — SI.com, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Batman always knows when the citizenry needs him – when the Bat-Signal shines bright in the night sky.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity.com, 15 June 2017
  • The cry of the citizenry is a prophetic message: Where there is no justice, there will be no peace!
    — Kweku Ramel Akyirefi Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2020
  • The question is what bad feelings will linger among the citizenry.
    — Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The result is a citizenry that does not agree on basic facts, and many of whom distrust the system.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 20 Feb. 2018
  • The first step in controlling the citizenry for your own gain is attacking the press.
    — Time, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The soul of its citizenry is open to building bridges to one another.
    — The Rev. David Anderson, Columbia Flier, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The job of members of the government is to minimize the citizenry’s grief.
    — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Aug. 2019
  • As a result, the ill-informed citizenry has been left unmoored, leading to the rise in the U.S. and elsewhere of right-wing populists.
    — oregonlive, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The United States has a moral imperative to help Ukraine win the war that Russia brought to its citizenry.
    — Michael A. Newton, CNN, 15 Mar. 2022
  • None of this passive culling of the citizenry was done on principle, and it certainly wasn’t done for you.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The denizens of this bus stop in particular seem as good a litmus test as any for the health and sanity of our citizenry.
    — Elisa Albert, Longreads, 7 May 2018
  • Oliver said the clear direction from the citizenry when he was elected to the fire board was to partner with Clackamas.
    — oregonlive, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Somehow, she was beloved by a fair portion of the local citizenry.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 9 June 2020
  • Alas, the last few years have brought with them a surfeit of self-flagellation that the more grounded among the citizenry would do well to resist.
    — The Editors, National Review, 4 July 2022
  • Needless to say four does not begin to cover our great local citizenry over the years.
    — Cincinnati.com, 26 July 2017
  • Northern lights There is little pressure from the citizenry to do more.
    — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The question of whether the monarchy survives beyond Elizabeth II is open to debate and up to the British citizenry.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2019
  • This should be a grave concern to anyone who cares about an informed citizenry.
    — New York Times, 8 June 2018
  • This marked a new phase of the war and of Zelenska’s role as first lady—a beacon to her citizenry and a player in Ukraine’s battle for hearts and minds.
    — Rachel Donadio, Vogue, 26 July 2022
  • So the party’s campaign to recruit the citizenry to combat these four pests was begun.
    — Longreads, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The executive branch has only ballooned since then and not to keep pace with the burgeoning needs of the citizenry.
    — Blair McClendon, The New Republic, 19 Jan. 2021
  • The need and interest were there, and the citizenry responded.
    — Popular Science, 15 Mar. 2021
  • With the end of the cattle trade at Dodge in 1886, its middle class citizenry hoped that its bad reputation would at last subside.
    — Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2018
  • As a result, many of these programs face a steep challenge in recruiting this half of our citizenry.
    — Time, 20 Oct. 2022
  • In response, Erdogan will shift posture and seek to once again instill fear in the citizenry, trying to appear strong and in command.
    — Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Perhaps now Sri Lankans (the first citizenry to elect a female national leader) will stop snickering.
    — Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 26 July 2024

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