How to Use polity in a Sentence

polity

noun
  • The polity scale score dropped to +7.
    — John M. Crisp, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The polity scale score dropped to +7.
    — John M. Crisp, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
  • For such a fractured polity, this could be the last time there is such a choice.
    — Fintan O’Toole, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2024
  • The result has been an almighty mess that our flighty polity has largely chosen to ignore.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The fault lines of our new online polities run under and through the borders of the old, legacy ones.
    — Antonio García Martínez, WIRED, 11 May 2018
  • For Runciman this process is most advanced in polities like Greece and Japan.
    — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • The first is to move somewhere else — someplace where this sort of thing does not happen anywhere within the polity.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 20 June 2019
  • The result is a metastisizing corruption at the heart of the polity.
    — Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
  • In a democracy, each person — each constituent member of the polity — has a share in running the state.
    — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Goethe believed that a small polity would be better than a large one for testing his political acumen.
    — Merve Emre, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • One indicator of a polity’s health is whether a citizen can be punished merely for telling the truth about the law.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Critics of the war argued that the US could not create a polity in its own image on the far side of the world.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Today a housing crisis places homes beyond the reach of many, and the homeless have been exiled to a place beyond the polity.
    — Richard White, Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The polity will divide into two and more pieces, each of them forming a new whole, each viewing the other as an Other.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 4 Jan. 2022
  • And once both sides believe that if the other side wins, the election was stolen, then how are we supposed to ever share a polity together?
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The results would be disastrous for the reputation of the courts and for the legal framework that is at the core of our polity.
    — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
  • They were aided by a silence within families and within the polity that persisted for decades.
    — Daniel Lee, Time, 16 June 2020
  • That confidence starts with a strong economy at home, a more unified polity, and standing by our allies overseas.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Much depends on what Washington does next and how Venezuela’s fractured polity responds.
    — Robert Muggah, The Conversation, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Much depends on what Washington does next and how Venezuela’s fractured polity responds.
    — Robert Muggah, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The modern world has accepted that slavery is savage, and not tolerable in any polity.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2011
  • In the end, the American polity arrived at the right answer—from the liberal point of view, anyway.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Smith said that if there are other avenues to assist Icebreaker that don’t involve state polity that they should be pursued.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2021
  • That polity, the Austrian Empire, was atypical for its era, and can seem stranger still to us today.
    — Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2022
  • There is a sense that just below the surface of the European polity there is magma waiting to burst through a fragile mantle.
    — Henry Porter, vanityfair.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • No matter that millions of Muslims in the polity want no part of the ideology any more than Ukrainians do.
    — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The four phases identified by researchers as being key periods in the Bokoni polity are as follows.
    — Alex Schoeman, Quartz, 29 May 2021
  • Right now, though, the fault line running through the Democrats’ polity remains in place, with both sides trying to exert maximum leverage.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • This is not a unitary polity, where the president decides for everyone, but 50 sovereign states that joined in union.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2025
  • What kind of polity the Jews would establish in Palestine was another subject of debate.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025

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