How to Use political in a Sentence

political

adjective

• Health care has become a major political issue in recent years.
• The senator has changed political parties.
• We need a political solution rather than a military solution.
• Israelis across the political spectrum were shocked by the scale of the assault and the extent of the violence.
  — WSJ, 16 Oct. 2023
• The political shift reflects changes in San Diego at large.
  — Jill Cowan, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• So what's a political party to do to stay in power at that point?
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 8 June 2023
• The link between art and the political world intrigued me.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2024
• Chernov’s acceptance speech was one of the most moving of the evening, and one of the most openly political.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024
• The political winds change, and there will be different points of view.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 12 May 2023
• There’s no guardrail between the personal and the political here.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2024
• The action is set in 2013, a time of political turmoil in Egypt, although that is not overly stressed.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
• On the down side, Kelly’s biggest flaw could be his lack of chops as a political attack dog.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2024
• Pheu Thai, a party linked to a political movement that has long been the army’s chief rival, came in second with 141 seats.
  — Feliz Solomon, wsj.com, 15 May 2023
• The atmosphere in Bethlehem on the eve of Christmas this year is somber, dark, sad — and political.
  — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
• Chat with a satire columnist: Alexandra Petri offers a lighter take on news and political in(s)anity.
  — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• Those songs are way more political [than The War on Errorism].
  — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 9 Oct. 2024
• The political satire explored the second coming of Jesus Christ as a black man, returning to South Africa as a black man.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Dec. 2023
• Some of these Kamala is brat memes make use of the lyrics from the song, and draw comparisons between Harris and some of her political rivals.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 23 July 2024
• Biden's age has been brought up often and on both sides of the political spectrum ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
  — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 12 July 2023
• The first attempt to pass a bill to control cannabis use last year was blocked in parliament as part of political jockeying ahead of the election.
  — TIME, 10 May 2024
• Whitmer is tough, too, and, having been the target of a kidnapping plot, can speak to the threat of political violence.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 23 July 2024
• What’s unique about the back-and-forth, though, is just how quickly a contentious political dispute has imperiled the project by nearly nipping it in the bud.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2023
• Acts of extremist political violence are on the rise, and many can be traced directly back to Trump’s own rhetoric.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
• One, the Iranians want to get out from political isolation in the region.
  — CBS News, 22 Mar. 2023
• That changed when one day she was asked to put a sign in her window for someone who was running for a district political position.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2023
• Kate, who has just inherited a vast political and financial empire, finds him in the hospital and gets (at least some of) the truth of his past life out of him.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
• That seemed a lot more human and relatable for people along the political spectrum.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2023
• Some of the band’s current members have been openly political.
  — Ben Finley, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2023
• The betting platform allows users to trade shares on the outcomes of political and financial events, meaning instead of the data being shown in points, it is shown in cents.
  — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
• To excavate the characters and the scenes of the campaign is to map a political environment in which only the most heightened and lurid version of events is vivid enough to capture the public’s attention.
  — The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024