How to Use czar in a Sentence

czar

noun
  • She's had a chance to be the border czar and failed miserably.
    ABC News, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Pacquiao’s workout czar Justin Fortune pointed at the scene and laughed.
    Greg Bishop, SI.com, 21 July 2019
  • Instead, imagine a warm, velvety smooth egg salad fit for some duchess or czar—that’s chef Abigail Zielke’s creamed eggs.
    Adam Rapoport, Bon Appétit, 22 July 2019
  • Singapore’s anti-drug czar claims strict punishment serves as a deterrent to drug traffickers.
    Rebecca Wright, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Right after that is the wide open border that the border czar, Kamala Harris, enabled and put together.
    NBC News, 13 Oct. 2024
  • In his speech, Johnson unveiled a proposal to hire a czar dedicated to education and workforce policies.
    Hayat Norimine, Dallas News, 17 June 2019
  • Kennedy is more likely to have a role as a White House czar rather than one that would require Senate confirmation, the Post reported.
    Sara Dorn, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The possibility of an immigration czar had been under consideration for awhile.
    Grace Segers, CBS News, 15 June 2019
  • One of Coats’ final acts as DNI actually was to appoint the nation’s first election security czar.
    Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 30 July 2019
  • 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

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