How to Use public figure in a Sentence

public figure

noun

• Douglass is the first public figure to be profiled in the enlarged gallery.
  — Janelle Harris Dixon, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
• Joker is a public figure, and so his fans assume that Arthur belongs to them too.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2024
• But this is still a very important, very public figure.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 20 May 2024
• Yet the sense of Frost as a public figure, celebrity and especially as a human being has been lost over the years.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2024
• Hicks is not the most public figure in the Defense Department, instead opting to work behind the scenes.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2024
• The judge also observed that Sabatini is likely to be found to be a public figure.
  — Bymeredith Wadman, science.org, 6 Apr. 2023
• Lower courts had said the producer wasn’t a public figure.
  — Jennifer Peltz, Fortune, 23 June 2023
• My former husband is not a celebrity or public figure, nor are any of the letter writers.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• The woman's name has not been revealed, but she has been described as a real-life public figure from India.
  — Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 25 July 2024
• If and when a public figure decides to open up about their body (which they are not obligated to!) is completely up to them.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 25 July 2023
• But the best was Yang as Rep. George Santos, a public figure whose real-life deceptions are tough to top as comedy.
  — Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• Hoover has come to realize that being a public figure comes with tremendous pressure.
  — Lucy Feldman, Time, 10 July 2023
• His remarks—barely five hundred words—turned him into a revered public figure.
  — Lincoln Caplan, The New Yorker, 4 July 2024
• The singer-songwriter isn't the only public figure who has been candid about her struggles with the autoimmune disease.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2024
• Since the 2019 interview, Prince Andrew has remained a public figure.
  — Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2024
• Ohtani, 29, has always been shrouded in secrecy as a public figure.
  — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• And Crawford isn't the only stylish public figure wearing white blazers this spring — Kate Middleton wore a similar style just a few weeks ago.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2023
• Cobain is also a beloved public figure whose death by suicide was widely publicized.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 17 Aug. 2024
• Since it had already been determined that Gino was a public figure due to her high-profile academic career, this does not rise to the standard of defamation.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2024
• This is a healthy concern for any public figure to have, particularly one who, like Cohen, has built his career skipping up to the line of propriety.
  — Jessica Pressler, Vulture, 3 June 2024
• The former is discourse, which is very much within the scope of acceptable behavior toward a public figure; the latter is harassment, which is very much not.
  — Jake Novak, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
• Though Burns is a public figure, thanks to his fast-rising profile in the golf world, Campbell keeps her life out of the spotlight, including having a private Instagram account.
  — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
• Navalny, who was educated as a lawyer, became active in politics in the early two-thousands and emerged as a public figure around 2010.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
• This is an essential part of his political persona: the aggrieved public figure who is at perpetual war with the world around him.
  — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
• The Florida bill would narrow the definition of who qualifies as a public figure.
  — Lori Rozsa, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
• Pink may be known for her feats of derring-do, but there’s no fearlessness like withstanding the slings and arrows of being a reasonably outspoken public figure.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Feb. 2023
• William isn’t the only public figure LARPing as a service industry worker this summer.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 2 Aug. 2023
• To show actual malice, a public figure must prove the publisher knew the offending statements were false or acted with reckless disregard for the truth.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2023
• There is no conceptual space in the bill for a public figure’s rhetoric to be both discriminatory and religious.
  — Charles McCrary, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2023
• Every August 31—the tragic anniversary of Princess Diana’s death—photographs of the late royal emerge across the news, social media, and pop culture platforms, a visual ode to the royal and public figure who touched the lives of so many.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024