politic

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

From The Wall Street Journal

“I wonder what this could have been with a real politic, with the people who make culture a part of it instead of using us to cosign this,” she mused.

From Los Angeles Times

Or if one wished to think biologically rather than architecturally, the body politic had yet to develop its immunities to the political diseases afflicting all new nations.

From Literature

America's democracy problem is now in the bones of the body politic.

From Salon

The only hope, the only cure to this infection of the body politic, is the preservation of the right to vote for all — and the concerted effort to dislodge the dissemblers from power.

From Washington Post