civil servant

Example Sentences

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And yet a friend of Sir Olly Robbins, the defenestrated lead civil servant in the Foreign Office, said the soon to be former mandarin was being unfairly traduced.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

The university has previously announced plans to expand its Magee campus in Derry to 10,000 students but a senior civil servant recently questioned whether funding for that expansion was in place.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

“You don’t need to use them — you just need to wear them,” a civil servant says, capturing the government’s one-size-fits-all indifference.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Williams, a retired civil servant who is undergoing cancer treatment, considers her pension to be "fairly decent," but as the US cost of living has risen, she has had to dip into her savings.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

One book, The Gay Genius, by Lin Yutang, told the story of Su Tung Po, the Chinese poet, artist, philosopher, and civil servant.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers