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Example sentences for "public office"

  • Tompkins was elected, with a Clintonian legislature; and the result secured Van Buren's first appointment to public office.

  • It was in vain that the Church repeatedly prohibited the employment of Jews in public office.

  • It was the law in Aragon that, when the Diputados appointed any one as lieutenant to the Justicia, if he refused to serve they were to remove his name from the lists of those eligible to public office.

  • Public office is a place of honour, because it is the field for patriotic devotion.

  • But after having elected our Judges, we chose several men in every county meeting, of no public office, but conspicuous for their integrity and knowledge of the law, to assist the Judges in their administration.

  • It was aimed at one of the strongest champions the wage-worker has ever had; at one of the most faithful representatives of the system of public rights and representative government who has ever risen to public office.

  • Ohio people are especially apt to be found in the vicinity of a public office.

  • I am to do whatever I can in public office to serve our people.

  • By-the-by, they have put you into a public office, haven't they?

  • Such hobbledehoys receive but little petting, unless it be from a mother; and such a hobbledehoy was John Eames when he was sent away from Guestwick to begin his life in the big room of a public office in London.

  • It isn't much in a man to be in a public office, and yet Mr Crosbie gives himself airs.

  • A man in a public office, as you and I are, can't quarrel like anybody else.

  • A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.

  • A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.

  • That he must have been the most miserable of men, during the greater part of his long life, clearly appears from the following: "There is no person happy who is in public office, or a candidate for office.

  • At the time of the challenge Hamilton held no public office, but was engaged in a lucrative practice of the law.

  • Following the example of greater men than himself when aspiring to public office, Mr. Rodes called a meeting of his party friends in his precinct, to the end that his modest "boom" might be successfully launched.

  • Thus unexpectedly reduced to the necessity of providing for himself, he procured a situation in a public office.

  • The method of doing business in a public office is of necessity more elaborate than in a private concern.

  • In a public office, therefore, more writing is done, more things are preserved and recorded, than in a private business, and there are more steps in a single transaction.

  • France, also a public office, a private town-house, a palace.

  • Those whom the penal law declares incapable of holding a public office, etc.

  • The reader will remember that Franklin reserved the right to make full reprisals when anyone undertook to dislodge him from a public office.

  • The large gifts made to their native towns by rich men elected to public office set an example which private citizens of means followed in an extraordinary way.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "public office" 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:
    could imagine; first impressions; not with; public acts; public administration; public and private life; public assembly; public conveyances; public credit; public economy; public education; public expense; public funds; public libraries; public officer; public ownership; public person; public prayer; public profession; public reception; public resort; public utilities; public view; quite understand; said resolution; sincere friend