The building was adapted to public lectures, in a large theatre.

The funeral mass, on the other hand, had been public in the extreme.

The Legislature addressed the issue of whether our board should be public or private in 1983, and they decided to leave us alone.

He had been very public in his assertion that corruption existed.

Both are public, in the sense that they can be entertained and criticized by anyone who has the opportunity to do so.

It would all be public in a day or so, anyway.

After additional repairs it is planned to be permanently open to the public starting in 2014.

A figurehead whose duties would be entirely public and social in nature.

These inscriptions as a rule are public and official in character.

It was a lot less public than her spending the weekend in my place.