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Example sentences for "private citizens"

  • Its force deserts it when society is to be disturbed or accelerated in its course; and if once the co-operation of private citizens is necessary to the furtherance of its measures, the secret of its impotence is disclosed.

  • It affords real pleasure to recollect the honorable testimony they gave of the patriotic motives which brought them into the service of their country, by the readiness and regularity with which they returned to the station of private citizens.

  • He might be told the constitution is lame in that respect; but it was more so with respect to private citizens, because any private citizen might receive either presents or titles from a foreign power.

  • However proper the limitation may be in relation to private citizens, it would seem that it ought not to commence running in favor of public officers until they go out of office.

  • This measure resorted to by the bank is disorganizing and revolutionary, and if generally resorted to by private citizens in like cases would fill the land with anarchy and violence.

  • Grimy sailors came down out of the foretop placidly announcing themselves as "a handful of private citizens of America, traveling simply for recreation and unostentatiously," etc.

  • We are a handful of private citizens of America, traveling simply for recreation, and unostentatiously, as becomes our unofficial state!

  • In more recent times additional interesting evidence and authority have been given, both as to the name of this flag and its use by private citizens.

  • The vessels owned by the governments of the colonies had thus been given their special British Union flags, but provision had not been made for those owned by private citizens.

  • The name and the propriety of the use of the Jack by private citizens in the United Kingdom was graciously confirmed.

  • Was there any request made by private citizens or corporations for troops?

  • I had taken the police pretty much away from the city of Allegheny and put them at the bridges, and sent squads of private citizens to patrol the streets.

  • You said that the intention of your posse was to protect the property of private citizens.

  • At Victoria we were entertained by gentlemen of public position and were also shown many attentions by private citizens.

  • Proposes restitution of the money contributed by private citizens, 16.

  • The next question is, What is the duty of private citizens in the case supposed, i.

  • But the Florentines refused to readmit the Medici even as private citizens, and Clement insisted that they should be restored to power.

  • The confederates demanded that Soderini should retire from office, and that the Medici should be allowed to return as private citizens.

  • By charter or by franchise the railroad is granted the power of eminent domain, whereby the property of private citizens may be taken from them at an appraised valuation.

  • Railroads in our country are owned by private corporations and are managed by private citizens, not, as in some countries, by public officials.

  • Nearly all the total of the things mentioned in the table in Chapter 2, section 4, are owned by private citizens.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "private citizens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    named from; private apartments; private audience; private citizen; private collections; private companies; private contract; private corporations; private detective; private dining; private hands; private house; private land; private libraries; private life; private office; private person; private rights; private sector; private ship; private society; private soldier; private wealth; sank down; suffrage movement; thinly sliced