How to Use czar in a Sentence

czar

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  • It was built in France for the Russian czar’s Moscow palace ...
    — Rick Steves, Sun Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Biden, at a Texas rally, said that O’Rourke will be his gun czar.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Who got the short end of the stick, and who will be thanking the scheduling czar’s come March and April?
    — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • It was first referred to as a pogrom, the name used for attacks on Russian Jews during the time of the czars.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
  • Past goes the parade, with the unclad czar atop the float, and, though the vast majority can see the ruse, few say a word.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 27 June 2023
  • In his portrait, the corporate czar sits in a chair with one hand splayed and the other clenched.
    — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2020
  • Winter Palace, the gaudy home where the czar lived, Trump had his apartment redone.
    — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2020
  • And then the czar stuff, is that at every point Putin has tried to legitimize himself.
    — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Two years before, Jacob’s brother Misha had escaped the wrath of the czar.
    — Steve West, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Even streetwear czars like Off-White have branched out from sneakers into easy boots and boat shoes.
    — Faran Krentcil, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Everyone from the czar’s wife to the lowliest serf might turn to magic at some juncture in their lives.
    — Valerie Kivelson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2022
  • And there's been enough drugs on her watch as border czar, fentanyl, to come in through the border to kill everybody in the world.
    — CBS News, 28 July 2024
  • One of his colleagues, Lou Semione, had just been made the district’s energy czar.
    — Brian Klaas, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Nov. 2021
  • New York City has appointed a rat czar to tackle the city's rat problem.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
  • There needs to be someone (a czar) who is saying, this is good idea, or this is a really bad idea.
    — Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 11 Sep. 2020
  • His title only hints at his status as the chip czar at Apple.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 22 Oct. 2021
  • On its way to the czar in 1916, so the story goes, the shipment was sunk by a German U-boat and recovered by Finnish divers decades later.
    — Alexandra Peers, CNN, 13 July 2022
  • Not everyone thinks a football czar position at Halas Hall is the best route for the team.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 27 Dec. 2021
  • The Saturday Evening Post did run a story by Massie in 1963, but declined a separate sketch on the czar's son.
    — Hillel Italie, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Joe Biden established himself as a sort of drug czar on Capitol Hill.
    — Augusta Saraiva, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The 64-square-foot painting portrays the Russian czar fleeing the Kremlin on horseback.
    — Julia Boccagno, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Last year, a ship that was sunk while transporting a cargo of liquor to the last Russian czar revealed its secrets.
    — Fox News, 16 Aug. 2020
  • Lewis likened Penrose to a Rasputin, the Russian mystic often blamed for the downfall of the czar in Russia a century ago.
    — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2020
  • John Kerry is Joe Biden’s czar on global climate change.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 17 Oct. 2022
  • There have been cries for a college commissioner, a czar, but good luck with that — bonne chance, getting back that chip on the table.
    — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2022
  • The White House drug czar said businesses, such as restaraunts and banks, and schools will be encouraged to purchase over-the-counter naloxone.
    — Nadia Kounang, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Monday’s rules were released about a month after the Department of Health hired Christopher Kimball to serve as the state’s new pot czar.
    — Dara Kam, Sun Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2022
  • He’s also called out Harris as Biden’s border czar for refusing to go to the border, even at the height of the border crisis.
    — Bethany Blankley | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The Catholic church was persecuted under the czar as well as Communism.
    — WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
  • After Harris was appointed border czar in March 2021, Abbott urged her to visit the border.
    — Bethany Blankley | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Aug. 2024

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