body politic

Example Sentences

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It was the most extreme expression of a wound to the body politic that has been allowed to fester.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

That’s unhealthy for the body politic — and for voters themselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2024

And if the fish happens to be so contaminated it will poison the body politic, you’ll take the chicken.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2023

"In the body politic as in the body personal, nonresistance to the milder indulgences paves the way for nonresistance to the deadlier."

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2023

The body politic was so disordered that all government seemed suspended.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson