How to Use citizenry in a Sentence

citizenry

noun

• The goal of influence operations is to engineer a shift in enemy decision-making by shaping the views of the citizenry.
  — David Shedd, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2024
• 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 November 1860, President-elect Lincoln would make his last trip to his namesake city and addressed some of the citizenry.
  — Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024