The phrase "an example of citizens" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when illustrating or providing a specific instance or case involving citizens in a discussion or argument.
Example: "The community garden initiative is an example of citizens coming together to improve their neighborhood."
Alternatives: "a case of citizens" or "a representation of citizens".
They provide an example of citizen involvement and collaboration between citizens and local governments.
Someone observed that informal adoption is an example of how citizens of Guatemala, distrustful of government, live outside "officialdom".
Altogether, the locks, the aqueducts, and the canal itself were considered an American engineering marvel, and it was a great source of pride as an example of how citizens in a republic could improve upon nature and promote progress.
But speaking on the courtroom steps, Hamilton Peterson, whose father and stepmother were on board, said the recording showed that "brave Americans overcame a horrific challenge... What was going through my heart was that this was an example of ordinary citizens stepping up to the plate on a moment's notice, and protecting the United States capital from a terrorist attack".
While some have celebrated the protests claiming them to be an example of American citizens merely enacting their first amendment right in a powerful manner, countless conservative sources have condemned the mass protests, claiming them collectively to be violent, criminal acts.
McDaniel sees LEAR's niche as a classic example of citizens pooling their resources together when an issue grows beyond the capacity of local and state resources to solve it.
In an example of "crowdsourcing", ordinary citizens would upload information about what they were witnessing to a map, and the reports would become visualisations.
So an early example of "citizen media" played an important role in the King story.
In an interview with a Reuters reporter around that time, a confident Chen said he wanted to set an example of villagers and disabled citizens fighting for their own rights.
In a 2006 post on his personal blog, Rall invoked the jaywalking ticket as an example of how police abuse citizens and get away with it: "An African-American cop cuffed me, threw me up against the wall and roughed me up before writing me a ticket and letting me go".
