POLITICAL in a Sentence

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Then, last summer at a political speaking in a grove of oak trees at Jonesboro, they both suddenly became aware of Scarlett O'Hara.

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 Meanings and Examples of POLITICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
political
 a.  of or relating to your views about social relationships involving authority or power
 a.  involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Then, last summer at a political speaking in a grove of oak trees at Jonesboro, they both suddenly became aware of Scarlett O'Hara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Scarlett thought for an instant that if she had not flirted so blatantly with Stuart at that political speaking a year ago, he might have married India long ere this.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  And the Bureau was far too interested in political matters to provide the care the plantation owners had once given.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  They always followed a set pattern--first, hard times; next, the political situation; and then, inevitably, the war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
5  Many ex-Confederate soldiers, knowing the frantic fear of men who saw their families in want, were more tolerant of former comrades who had changed political colors in order that their families might eat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
6  In this mongrel society thrown together by the exigencies of the political situation, there was but one thing in common.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
7  With the Republicans in the political saddle the town entered into an era of waste and ostentation, with the trappings of refinement thinly veneering the vice and vulgarity beneath.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
8  Word had been spread among the negroes that there were only two political parties mentioned in the Bible, the Publicans and the Sinners.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
9  My advice in other political matters is equally good.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
10  You must stop taking Bonnie around with you in the afternoons to political meetings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
11  Lily's preference would have been for an English nobleman with political ambitions and vast estates; or, for second choice, an Italian prince with a castle in the Apennines and an hereditary office in the Vatican.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
12  She tried to have him appointed to the postmastership, which, since all the work was done by assistants, was the one sinecure in town, the one reward for political purity.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  The organizer had defied the sheriff, and announced that in a few days he would address a farmers' political meeting.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  When I say that I'm selfish I mean that the only thing I consider about women is whether they're likely to prove useful in building up real political power for women.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
15  Such large virtue lurks in these small things when extreme political superstitions invest them, that in some royal instances even to idiot imbecility they have imparted potency.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The Attorney General was aware of the political implications of his decision to prosecute.
17  They became pawns in the political battle.
18  There has been a lot of political mudslinging in the battle for votes.
19  Our party has been on the political sidelines for too long - we must now work towards getting into power.
20  In his political opinions he leans toward the Labour Party.
21  The levels of trade union and political activism in this country have greatly declined in the past fifteen years.
22  They hyped up the crowd with TV to sell their political policy.
23  Conditions after the war led to the emergence of a new type of political party.
24  His theories mesh together various political and religious beliefs.
25  The violence was the result of political and ethnic conflicts.
26  The violence of the revolutionary years was justifiable on the grounds of political necessity.
27  The group has expressed concern about reports of political violence in Africa.
28  There was a lull in political violence after the election of the current president.
29  The whole country has been in a state of political ferment for some months.
30  Letters whose sole purpose is to make a political point will not be published.