POLITICS in a Sentence

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One could hang about the drugstore; and listen to the old men who sat there every evening, talking politics and telling raw stories.

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 Meanings and Examples of POLITICS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
politics
 n.  profession devoted to governing
 n.  study of the ways in which a country is governed
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Gerald knew that despite the genuine liking of the County men with whom he hunted, drank and talked politics there was hardly one whose daughter he could marry.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Scarlett knew her mother cared nothing at all about war and politics and thought them masculine matters about which no lady could intelligently concern herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  There had been no talk of politics or impending war all during the morning, because of Mr. Wilkes' request that the ladies should not be bored.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  And having finished with politics, the talk about the war began.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
5  The best of schools and lodgings and clothes and amusements, for they were the power in politics and every negro vote counted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
6  Yes, platitudinously but truly, politics make strange bedfellows.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
7  They were sound and conservative in politics, but they talked about motor cars and pump-guns and heaven only knew what new-fangled fads.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  All this the Thanatopsis Club was to accomplish with no difficulty whatever, since its several husbands were the controllers of business and politics.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  Women haven't any place in politics.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
10  Large experiments in politics and in co-operative distribution, ventures requiring knowledge, courage, and imagination, do originate in the West and Middlewest, but they are not of the towns, they are of the farmers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  Everywhere Carol heard that the war was going to bring a basic change in psychology, to purify and uplift everything from marital relations to national politics, and she tried to exult in it.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  You'll see her settled down one of these days, and teaching Sunday School and helping at sociables and behaving herself, and not trying to butt into business and politics.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
13  One could hang about the drugstore; and listen to the old men who sat there every evening, talking politics and telling raw stories.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
14  They honestly believed the race should fit itself for government, and when that should be done, the objection to race participation in politics would be removed.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In IV
15  They believed the problem was to be solved by eschewing politics and putting money in the purse.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The Institute is intended to promote an understanding of the politics and culture of the Arab world.
17  Many teenagers are surprisingly ignorant about current politics.
18  She has a degree in sociology and politics.
19  Tom is studying for a degree in politics.
20  I feel out of my element talking about politics.
21  Many people think that party politics should not enter into local government.
22  Her father's trying to enter politics.
23  His friends and relatives are all pushing him to enter politics.
24  Environmental ideas have been absorbed into the mainstream of European politics.
25  Foreign domination had a malign influence on local politics.
26  The practice of global politics requires reform.
27  Her interest in politics began to overshadow her desire to be a poet.
28  He showed a lively interest in politics.
29  He is a student of international politics.
30  He grandly declared that "international politics is a struggle for power".