How to Use public in a Sentence
- The ads are intended to increase public awareness of the risks of smoking.
- She was elected to a public office.
- This will be her first public performance in five years.
- The city council is holding a public meeting.
- Her trial will be public.
- The government has allowed public access to the documents.
- They decided on a nearby restaurant as a convenient public place to meet.
- Public outrage over the scandal eventually forced him to resign.
- He was in Congress for many years but he recently retired from public life.
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But, for years, it was barely used for public events.
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Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
29 May 2026
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If they aren’t claimed they are sold at public auction.
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Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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These tests take place on public streets rather than private test tracks.
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Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Most were red herrings in case scripts got leaked, or call sheets were made public.
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Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
15 May 2026
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Please find our public statement here.
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Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
24 Feb. 2026
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His name came up in public discussion about the case from the start.
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CBS News,
19 June 2026
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The change is not tied to a standalone public press release.
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Dante Motley,
Austin American Statesman,
17 Mar. 2026
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Details of that appeal have not yet been made public.
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Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Oct. 2025
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Stokes seems to enjoy trolling the media and public a bit, too.
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Shreyas Laddha,
Kansas City Star,
24 Apr. 2026
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The project has a long list of public and private funders.
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Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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His name and charges will be made public after the hearing.
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Fousia Abdullahi,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Sep. 2025
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The restaurant name and its cuisine has not yet been made public.
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Heidi Finley,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Jan. 2026
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But many of those have also vanished from public view.
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New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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The group is planning a public protest later this month.
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Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
7 Jan. 2026
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It’s been a week since those images became public.
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Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2026
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Kiser later filed a lawsuit to keep records about her son’s death out of public view.
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Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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The new courthouse has public restrooms on each floor.
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Douglas Hanks
november 10,
Miami Herald,
10 Nov. 2025
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Those values and practices are not public goods.
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Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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There were 40,000 public votes on the strand last year.
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Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
22 Sep. 2025
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Many public places remained closed amid heightened fear.
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Arkansas Online,
18 Mar. 2026
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Let public transport do the heavy lifting.
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Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Mar. 2026
- The beach is open to the public.
- The general public is in favor of the law.
- Members of the public called for the mayor's resignation.
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And that public is hard to please.
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Lucy Maguire,
Vogue,
20 Jan. 2026
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To make sense of the world in public.
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Jasmine Browley,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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But the new public was stranger than that.
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Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2026
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So too would much of the British public.
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Ian King,
CNBC,
21 Jan. 2026
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The experts agreed that the risk to the wider public is low.
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Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
6 May 2026
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Make the leader change their mind in public.
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Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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The game goes on until one is left, and is played in public.
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Dennis Valera,
CBS News,
13 May 2026
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Singing in public is like dancing.
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John Hodgman,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
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Going public at an anime awards show is a flex all on its own.
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Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2026
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All of those things point to very, very unhappy public.
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James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Vallone loved dancing in her kitchen, but rarely did in public.
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Jason Mastrodonato,
Mercury News,
1 Feb. 2026
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Price clearly had a sense of the moviegoing public.
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John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Everything was sort of out there in public.
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Julia Terruso,
Time,
11 June 2026
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Its public has become a big asset.
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Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
4 June 2026
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Remember to look good to your public.
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Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
10 Sep. 2025
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Khamenei’s son is now supreme leader, though he has not been seen in public since the war began.
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Julia Frankel,
Los Angeles Times,
14 June 2026
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Now she gets recognized in public by fans of her birria plates.
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Jenna Thompson
april 22,
Kansas City Star,
22 Apr. 2026
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This is about protecting our public's health.
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Iris Salem,
CBS News,
20 June 2026
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Over the years, Macron has sometimes taken off his watch in public.
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David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
17 June 2026
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The supreme leader has not been seen in public since he was wounded in a strike at the start of the war.
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Seung Min Kim,
Chicago Tribune,
18 June 2026
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But it’s lost a lot of goodwill with the soccer-loving public.
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Boston Herald Editorial Staff,
Boston Herald,
8 Apr. 2026
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And the American public doesn’t want this war, right?
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NBC news,
22 Mar. 2026
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By this point, the concerned football public would largely agree.
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Chris Bumbaca,
USA Today,
27 Oct. 2025
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To be ill in public was disgraceful, an affront.
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Tom Levenson,
Time,
20 May 2026
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But among the broader public, the habit is collapsing.
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Preston Fore,
Fortune,
4 Jan. 2026
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But the Israeli public follows the news.
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Ruth Margalit,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Hunter, meanwhile, is excited to meet her new public.
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Los Angeles Times,
14 Jan. 2026
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