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Example sentences for "public charge"

  • Disarming their enemies of the weapon that they would continue a public charge, they secured the cooperation of a larger number of white people who at first had treated them with contempt.

  • Speaking of this settlement the editor of the Alton Telegraph said in 1862 that although they amounted to many hundreds not one, that he could learn of, had been a public charge.

  • From then on the maintenance was assumed practically entirely as a public charge, the legislatures of the several states undertaking themselves to provide for the schools.

  • In several states, as New York and Massachusetts, there have been enactments in regard to deaf-mute immigrants together with other classes who might be likely to become a public charge, with the exaction of bond as security.

  • Any alien who may become a public charge within a year from his arrival shall be sent back to the country from whence he came.

  • Sidenote: The Ticket System] As you have the good fortune to be honest, and have sufficient money to escape being halted as likely to become a public charge, you are ticketed "O.

  • The decision of the court is confirmed; deported, because likely to become a public charge.

  • The father and the boy have been marked by the inspector as likely to become a public charge, because they had neither money in their pockets nor friends waiting for them.

  • Public Charge), which sends the immigrant to the extreme left where an official sits, in front of a barred gate behind which is the dreaded detention-room.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "public charge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    loose stones; many kings; proper noun; public amusement; public business; public charge; public exhibition; public health; public improvements; public justice; public ministry; public morals; public nature; public officers; public penance; public places; public policy; public proclamation; public property; public questions; public revenue; public trust; public view; publick affairs; secret place; steam engines