"citizen" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- As Rudé paints it, "those who took to the streets were ordinary, sober citizens, not half-crazed animals, not criminals".
- Twice within the past hour he had seen men he knew as sober citizens walking down the street, wearing guns and carrying rifles or shotguns.
- Once or twice a sober citizen hurried along looking neither right nor left in the dark neighborhood.
- Oktoberfest is indeed the world's largest drink-a-thon where normally prim and sober citizens from every country in the world lurch around like drunken rats.
- I'm a sober, law-abiding, taxpaying citizen and I'm entitled to protection, and even if you don't think so, to some courtesy as well.
- We wanted to show that we were as decent and sober citizens as anyone.
- Put a sober Saudi citizen behind the wheel, and he becomes so macho that a new word is needed to describe his behavior.
- And it was impossible, no matter how powerful the nobleman, to arrest hundreds of sober citizens of London.
- "Wouldn't you agree, sir, that the mob must be controlled for the good of sober citizens?"
- "They" are the realists, the practical men, the sober citizens in bowler hats who are always anxious to stop you doing anything worth doing.
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