How to Use public in a Sentence

public

1 of 2 adjective
Definition of publicnext
Synonyms for publicnext
  • The ads are intended to increase public awareness of the risks of smoking.
  • She was elected to a public office.
  • This will be her first public performance in five years.
  • The city council is holding a public meeting.
  • Her trial will be public.
  • The government has allowed public access to the documents.
  • They decided on a nearby restaurant as a convenient public place to meet.
  • Public outrage over the scandal eventually forced him to resign.
  • He was in Congress for many years but he recently retired from public life.
  • And schools and public buildings were closed in Portland, the state’s largest city.
    — David Sharp, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2023
  • But what’s going on in the court of public opinion is disgusting.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
  • There was a lot of anxiety and a lot of feelings of being overwhelmed once our suit was made public.
    — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Her last public apparitions in the field at Caritas were in 2013.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 11 June 2023
  • Johnson believes whether or not he is banned will be driven by public perception and the outcome of the charges.
    — WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The lobby — which once had all the charm of a bank branch — has been remade into a welcoming public lounge with a garage-style door that opens to the plaza when the weather is mild.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • And the project hasn’t gone through any public review process, as is sometimes required for construction projects on this scale.
    — Guthrie Scrimgeour, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
  • But when does restricting speech in a case with such high public interest go too far?
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 10 June 2023
  • The loans are expected to close, along with public borrowing in support of the project, sometime in the fall, the developer said.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
  • There's still many aspects of the global aid system that are more public than public-private.
    — TIME, 15 Oct. 2023
  • In a recording of the March 25 town meeting when the changes started, some residents got up to speak during public comments.
    — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The year was difficult for Richards for other reasons, including the death of her best friend and public feud with sister Kathy Hilton.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The city, which has an area of 139 square miles, has used public money to widen walkways, install bike lanes and help businesses get started.
    — Mitch Smith, New York Times, 16 July 2023
  • George Dunham’s first public impersonation was in the books.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 21 June 2023
  • The duo first went public with their relationship in 2019 at the American Music Awards.
    — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The change will allow for more efficient egress for Tiger Transit Buses, as well as those that park in the business school and public safety lots.
    — Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 1 Sep. 2023
  • It was announced in 2021 that Hanna was retiring from public life.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 22 June 2023
  • By contrast, a new Illinois law would block state funding for public libraries that ban or restrict books.
    — CBS News, 30 Dec. 2023
  • And in October, Rodgers made public his choice for president.
    — Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024
  • In Grants Pass, that has meant tents, tarps and other belongings dot parks while public benches and picnic tables are often used for sleeping.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The projects have been blocked without holding public meetings to inform applicants why funding was denied.
    — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2024
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public

2 of 2 noun
  • The beach is open to the public.
  • The general public is in favor of the law.
  • Members of the public called for the mayor's resignation.
  • The British public is footing the bill for the coronation.
    — Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 6 May 2023
  • Kevin Spacey’s fate now lies with 12 members of the British public.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 24 July 2023
  • My books and research have explored how these two states were sold to the U.S. public as twin Edens.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
  • And the American public are going to get the chance to watch that play out in real time.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The British public was utterly ignorant of birdlife at the start of the campaign.
    — Mary Jo Dilonardo, Treehugger, 25 May 2023
  • The British public awoke to the news that the 36-year-old royal was dead, killed in a crash that also claimed the lives of Dodi and the couple’s driver.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The war was bringing in a public eager to learn about weapons, planes, and the nature of the country that was once again the enemy.
    — Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • As of Monday, the phone is finally available for the wider public.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 8 May 2023
  • Now, Baroness Mone is the face of an escalating scandal that has gripped the British public.
    — Leo Sands, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Yet all this winning seems to have infused the American public with a sense of doom.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Plenty of the songs took shape over the course of months, with NPG band members learning what songs made the album – and in what shape — along with the wider public.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Since nobody can keep the great public busy, there have to be these rumor clinics and campaigns.
    — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
  • And critics say this helped ring the register at the expense of the American public.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Or maybe the American public’s love affair with Jigsaw isn’t over yet and Saw X makes a splash.
    — Vulture, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The brand approach focuses on the decades that raised the owners – and most of the drinking public right now, Michael Perozzo said.
    — oregonlive, 12 July 2023
  • The American public holds a place for the suffering Gazans, as recent polls show.
    — Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
  • These releases are our family’s gift to you, her public, for being there for all of us for the past 40 years.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The country and the British public deserve to know the depths of what was actually happening then, and indeed now.
    — Town & Country, 6 June 2023
  • One was to see what has happened and to give a picture to the Israeli public and to the international public.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Mental health services will be provided to the wider public at a hotel.
    — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Graham was among the executives who spearheaded the move to take ACS public, in 1994 under the new name Guidant.
    — Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2023
  • An informed public means a strong republic and Meet the Press is dedicated to that cause.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • His American wife Meghan is disliked by even more of the British public, with 65% having a negative view of her.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
  • But to the culture-consuming public, that didn’t matter.
    — WIRED, 23 June 2023
  • Class and race collide and titillate the tabloid-reading public: a poor man laying claim to a great fortune, supported by the son of a slave.
    — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The community has fundraised to keep this public well a part of the neighborhood, but it isn't recommended to drink the well's water.
    — Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The Bourbon Renewal is his first cocktail to get wider purchase among the drinking public.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2023

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