What is "citizenry"

Usage examples of "citizenry".

He wanted to be able to blend in with the citizenry, for whatever purpose he had in mind.

To many of those assembled and across the planet Nador itself, it might have seemed like something of an anticlimax, with those behind the movement who assaulted the princes still at large, but Kirk knew how truly rare such moments actually were in life, and was just glad that this decision, at least, had been made known to the citizenry, who would be making the actual choice.

He instructed the aliens in the use of American slang and briefed them on local customs so that they might blend into the citizenry and observe the natives at work and play without being noticed.

She wondered at news that could send an entire citizenry cowering in the gloom of their private dwellings.

He defends fascistic government abuses, but the citizenry is no safer as a consequence.

But still, about half the citizenry deeply, passionately believe that they have a right to bear arms.

Politicians had, cautiously, found ways to operate in the new glass-walled world, with their every move open to scrutiny by a concerned and online citizenry, now and in the future.

Now, I think I can state it as a fact, the general citizenry of Lethary had never before seen a two-headed person.

The Square was already full of people waiting for the courtroom doors to open, about half being our local citizenry and half out-of-towners who had come for the Fair.

The wool from Terran sheep raised on Ferguson grew up to eighteen inches long and was remarkably fine, but the Headman was shearing his citizenry closer than ever they did their sheep.

Since he was certain the murderer was a formal member of the citizenry, a private investigator would serve no purpose but to alert the man to be more careful.

As the government moved to give itself more tools to root out the terrorists, they would be depriving the citizenry of more personal freedoms, which would breed more dissatisfaction.

In some places a drenched and irate citizenry raised the alarm immediately, while others were left to awaken to peculiar smells and woefully soggy carpeting.

Officials had been standing up to say that they would protect the citizenry, but all of a sudden attacks were happening all over the place.

While it might have seemed unusual for a government to be setting up procedures that allowed their agents to spy on the citizenry, in essence they were just planning ahead for the eventuality that an undercover operation might have to be run some day.