How to Use civil servant in a Sentence

civil servant

noun
  • To me, this is a clear case of when a civil servant should say no.
    — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
  • Thank you to the civil servants who made this happen.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The first wave of civil servants is scheduled to arrive next month.
    — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Lam wavered on masks, and even ordered civil servants not to wear them.
    — Zeynep Tufekci, The Atlantic, 12 May 2020
  • And taxpayers have reaped the fruit of that progress and of the work of civil servants.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2025
  • But civil servants are not waiting around for that to happen.
    — Simon Shuster, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Many other civil servants have thought through this process themselves.
    — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
  • He is known for being a smart, loyal civil servant with a wry sense of humor.
    — Sabra Ayres, latimes.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Trump is trying to break the civil servants at the Army Corps.
    — Colin Smalley, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 July 2025
  • But last year, the number of civil servants who earned over $1 million climbed to nine.
    — William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 17 Dec. 2025
  • But in March, the same senior civil servant called again to ask him to re-apply.
    — Matt Slater, New York Times, 11 May 2025
  • Walmart Brazil was barred at the time from hiring civil servants.
    — CBS News, 20 June 2019
  • Chichi, meanwhile, has moved to Tokyo and become a civil servant.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Meanwhile, civil servants still face the looming prospect of more rounds of firings in the months and years ahead.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 21 Mar. 2025
  • No one signs up to be a civil servant in hopes of trending on Twitter, after all.
    — Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The assent had come from a civil servant who apparently didn’t see the harm.
    — New York Times, 29 July 2022
  • Is there anything that Congress can do to protect some of these civil servants?
    — CBS News, 13 July 2025
  • Meanwhile, there are plans to move 4,100 more civil servants to the city this year.
    — Niken Sitoningrum, NPR, 16 Apr. 2026
  • As a savvy civil servant, though, Abbe knew how to use this position to get results.
    — Chad Orzel, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Vetting of the civil servants began in the last week, the official said.
    — Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
  • There are cash shortages, and the salaries for civil servants haven’t been paid out, even for many Houthi fighters.
    — Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
  • This month, civil servants on work-from-home orders were allowed to return to their office.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2020
  • Since then Hamas has run the coastal strip as a separate fief, with its own civil servants and police.
    — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The man, a civil servant, declined to give his name because he was not allowed to speak to journalists.
    — Gamze Yilmazel, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • For a moment, the only sounds were the hurried prayers of the civil servants mumbling under their breath.
    — Rukmini Callimachi, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • None of them appeals to Mostafa, a 40-year-old civil servant who declined to give his last name.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2021
  • Thousands of journalists, politicians and civil servants have been thrown in jail or fired from their jobs in the years since the coup took place.
    — Cristina Maza, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Many mullahs have become, in effect, civil servants in turbans.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
  • But Reifel isn’t just a civil servant dedicated to the public good.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 June 2026
  • For years, the longtime civil servant has insisted that Gore had more votes than then-Gov.
    — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 12 Nov. 2020

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