How to Use pol in a Sentence

pol

noun

• Many of the city's residents have criticized local pols for their decision to close the public library.
• That was during the premiership of David Cameron, the P.R. man–turned–pol.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 26 July 2019
• So what’s the appeal among the pols of a 40-year-old album by U.K. punk rockers?
  — Washington Post, 10 June 2019
• Such a fragile, thin-skinned pol doesn’t deserve to be in City Hall.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• Better for pols to bury the hatchet — but not in each other.
  — Maureen Groppe, Indianapolis Star, 8 May 2018
• Who really knows what these pols escape to in their hours off the stump?
  — Armond White, National Review, 8 Sep. 2023
• But even in that event, pols will still have an important impact on where the lines are drawn.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 24 May 2018
• Many other pols are poised to speak at the party confab, the state party said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• The bribery charges seem as ludicrous on their face as the extortion charges against that pol seemed in 1980.
  — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 30 Sep. 2017
• That is even worse — even worse than the pols’ duplicity.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 Apr. 2023
• But then if a pol says something over and over, somebody will believe it.
  — John Baer, Philly.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• And now past pols who’d been caught with their hand in the cookie jar were scurrying to hire appeals lawyers.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 19 July 2017
• But both practices do show that pols are figuring out how to game the top-two system.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 25 Apr. 2018
• Dual pol has proven its worth in winter weather as well.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 18 Jan. 2021
• That’s the easy default position of most North County pols.
  — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Sep. 2017
• A half-hour spent in the infield turned up no sighting of recognizable pols.
  — Michael Dresser, baltimoresun.com, 20 May 2017
• The fast-talking, wisecracking lawyer-pol has been replaced by an old man who can’t stop talking about the past.
  — Time, 30 Jan. 2020
• Nothing helps a local pol like siding against the Bengals.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• But Fetterman was never the kind of pol who put much stock in seeming perfect.
  — Molly Ball, Time, 20 July 2023
• Sadly, too many of those Latino pols talked a big game about people power.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2023
• Some retired pol who was old of age but still mentally agile and tired of running.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2020
• More on the investigation and the pols' response in my story.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 26 July 2017
• The money and access will get cut off, there will be a primary, and the offending pol will end up an outcast.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 21 June 2019
• Or, as the pols like to put it—legalize the recreational use of marijuana.
  — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 17 Apr. 2018
• The crooked pols and wags unleash the arsonists to churn dollars to development.
  — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• And the pol most People of the Bern seem to prefer, Nina Turner, is a former state legislator.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 5 July 2017
• Plenty is at stake: no corner of the city will be spared from climate challenges, including the stomping grounds of those vying to be the city’s top pol.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
• There was no ingratiation, no name-check for the local pols.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• The largest crowd by far hadn’t gathered around one of the prominent national pols who’d addressed the audience.
  — Sam Walker, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
• Every state also has sleazy politicians, but Florida’s pols take the cake.
  — National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2016

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024