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
• The issue roiled the country and exposed an ugly vein of bigotry in the American body politic.
  — Harold Holzer, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
• Other problems have deeper roots in the American body politic.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024