How to Use body politic in a Sentence

body politic

noun
  • Just as the body politic put that person there in the first place.
    Fox News, 11 May 2018
  • In fact, it’s still not widely absorbed in the body politic.
    David French, Time, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Williamson harnessed something from the body politic that evening, whether love is the best term for it.
    Avi Selk, Washington Post, 30 July 2019
  • The claims are a slow-acting poison that can cripple the body politic.
    Brian Stelter, CNN, 23 Nov. 2020
  • This is when Underwood, 60, stood up and threw a sucker punch to the body politic.
    Dan Barry, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022
  • Here Lee drove one last punch into the rib cage of the radical body politic.
    Randal Doane, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
  • And the same forces that created that response are still present in the DNA of our body politic today.
    Will Jeakle, Forbes, 24 June 2021
  • This year, perhaps, think of the ball as a large sedative being swallowed by the body politic.
    New York Times, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The president-elect should know that the right kind of Covid-19 messaging could heal the body politic in more ways than one.
    Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 24 Dec. 2020
  • And the other pieces are the kind of numbing 3 a.m. questions that our body politic is not at all equipped to handle.
    Will Bunch, Philly.com, 14 June 2018
  • The body remembers, and the body politic will remember as well.
    Sarah Jeong, The New Republic, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Putting an end to the American body politic’s clammy night sweats?
    Arielle Pardes, Wired, 15 Jan. 2020
  • And this week, the norm-busting impact of Donald Trump on our body politic may have reached its peak.
    ABC News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • In addition to the heavy toll of dead and injured, the Vietnam War left deep wounds on the body politic of each country.
    Edward Miller, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Greene’s call, however, is not a cure for the disease in our body politic but a symptom of it.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Just as there are many ways for microbes to infect a body, there are many ways for epidemics to play out in the body politic.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
  • But that doesn’t mean Mr. Trump or the republic deserves the damage Mr. Mueller seems willing to do to the body politic.
    James Freeman, WSJ, 21 July 2017
  • The framers wanted the body politic to decide on whether or not to remove one branch of government.
    Fox News, 11 May 2018
  • The decisions of the body politic are borne by the bodies of the vulnerable: A living wage.
    David Treuer, The New York Review of Books, 5 Nov. 2020
  • It’s a poison running through … our body politic and it’s been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 17 May 2022
  • Month after month we were shown a grim X-ray of the perverse inequities that had been eating away at the city’s body politic for decades.
    New York Times, 8 June 2021
  • The body politic should not be charged with writing and interpreting the rules by which they are governed.
    Josh Baugh, San Antonio Express-News, 21 June 2018
  • But the populist specter, which is haunting so much of Europe, has been exorcised from the U.K. body politic.
    Fraser Nelson, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Trump draws no line between his body natural and his body politic.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2020
  • As much as the war waxed and waned in the public consciousness, Afghanistan was, by virtue of the troops serving there, part of the American body politic for 20 years.
    New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • His role in the American body politic should not be forgotten.
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2019
  • And despair by the body politic, whose common sense is at odds with the anxious conformity of those in power.
    Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2021
  • For the Democratic base, Trump is a cancer to be excised from the American body politic.
    Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Pamuk will use it to expose the infirmities of this body politic.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
  • When the constant lies of politicians, especially the lies of the President, have poisoned the body politic?
    Eddie S. Glaude, Time, 31 Jan. 2018

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