citizen

Example Sentences

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While the extradition of a Venezuelan citizen is technically prohibited under the constitution, the country's immigration authority determined that Saab was a Colombian national and ordered him "deported" to the United States.

From Barron's • May 17, 2026

Jesenská, a gentile, was a Czechoslovak citizen living in Vienna, and when she received Kafka’s permission to translate him into Czech the two began a passionate correspondence.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Aurélien Martini of the USM magistrates' union said that citizen vigilantes "risked disrupting genuine police investigations that might already be under way into a suspect".

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Because she acknowledged under questioning by customs officers that she’d once voted in a local election, despite not being a U.S. citizen.

From Salon • May 14, 2026

On August 14, 1945, the very same day that World War II ended, an American citizen and Soviet spy named Elizabeth Bentley cautiously approached the front door of the FBI offices in New Haven, Connecticut.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau