citizenry

Example Sentences

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The District of Columbia teems with nonprofits dedicated to the proposition that one thing or another menaces the citizenry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

"Even with the small cheque size from everyday givers, this is a sizeable contribution from the citizenry towards social impact," says Uppal.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

Crosswords, for him, are arguments on behalf of things: of what qualifies as “common knowledge,” of what role puzzles should play in informing a citizenry, of how wordplay and slang snake into the mainstream.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025

In 1965, Space City boasted a metropolitan population of 1.4 million in comparison with the Big Apple, which dwarfed that figure with a citizenry of 7.8 million.

From Salon • Aug. 15, 2025

They had been trained, of course, to not make eye contact with the citizenry, and to instead gaze past them impassively.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill