Example sentences for: polity

How can you use “polity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Adapted to the nationalist argument for equality among all Americans, Aristotle’s argument about friendship would go something like this: we should treat all members of the American polity as equal, with equal concern for their lives, precisely as we would treat friends.

  • On primordial identities: I don't believe in single identities, but there are root identities such as being a Basque, a Catalan, a Kurd, or an Occitan, especially when there is a need to assert such a root identity against a larger, sometimes more smothering polity or culture.

  • The universalist language of the Declaration of Independence hardly dovetails with the parochial category of citizenship in a particular governmental polity.

  • The real polity, like the real economy, ought to be what counts.

  • I doubt that any sport, or any polity, has ever violated it.


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