How to Use czar in a Sentence
czar
noun-
It was built in France for the Russian czar’s Moscow palace ...
— Rick Steves, Sun Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2022 -
The three brothers became officers and went to the front to fight for the czar.
— Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2018 -
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 -
She's had a chance to be the border czar and failed miserably.
— ABC News, 27 Oct. 2024 -
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 -
Her mother had three brothers once, White officers in the last czar’s army.
— Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2018 -
Pacquiao’s workout czar Justin Fortune pointed at the scene and laughed.
— Greg Bishop, SI.com, 21 July 2019 -
Still, in the end the cossacks work for the czar — which is a way of saying that the policies of the Trump administration come from Trump himself.
— Evan Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2018 -
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 -
Walker, who has a son of his own, is Ghetto Gastro’s flavor czar.
— Jason Parham, WIRED, 29 May 2018 -
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 -
Trump’s decision to name Homan as border czar came within days of winning the election.
— Brett Samuels, The Hill, 14 Dec. 2024 -
But he was not invited to meet Homan during the border czar’s visit earlier this month.
— David Gilbert, WIRED, 17 Dec. 2024
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