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
  • Trump draws no line between his body natural and his body politic.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The claims are a slow-acting poison that can cripple the body politic.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Williamson harnessed something from the body politic that evening, whether love is the best term for it.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 30 July 2019
  • Here Lee drove one last punch into the rib cage of the radical body politic.
    — Randal Doane, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
  • Putting an end to the American body politic’s clammy night sweats?
    — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The body remembers, and the body politic will remember as well.
    — Sarah Jeong, The New Republic, 3 Sep. 2020
  • This year, perhaps, think of the ball as a large sedative being swallowed by the body politic.
    — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Pamuk will use it to expose the infirmities of this body politic.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The framers wanted the body politic to decide on whether or not to remove one branch of government.
    — Fox News, 11 May 2018
  • Only thoughtful concern could truly cut through the noise and rebuild our body politic.
    — David French, National Review, 17 Jan. 2018
  • His role in the American body politic should not be forgotten.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2019
  • 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
  • This is when Underwood, 60, stood up and threw a sucker punch to the body politic.
    — Dan Barry, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022
  • 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
  • Other problems have deeper roots in the American body politic.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • But there’s also a long-term toll, one that’s more imperceptible, yet no less corrosive, to the body politic.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
  • 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 same forces that created that response are still present in the DNA of our body politic today.
    — Will Jeakle, Forbes, 24 June 2021
  • The issue roiled the country and exposed an ugly vein of bigotry in the American body politic.
    — Harold Holzer, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
  • As the infection of our body politic began trumping the risk of infection to our bodies, a man on a park bench offered me a mask.
    — Gabriella Fuller, ELLE Decor, 14 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • There has never been, and shouldn't be, any acceptance within our body politic of a foreign policy shorn of moral concerns.
    — Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Saturate the body politic with the chemotherapy of antiracist policies that shrink the tumors of racial inequities.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 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
  • As the American body politic splintered over the past decade, some dedicated men and women worked to keep left and right together.
    — Matt Sandgren, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2022
  • In the body politic, companies are the strong arms which turn the dynamo of growing productivity, not the mouth which lectures the world on politics.
    — Jerry Bowyer, National Review, 6 July 2021

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