How to Use pol in a Sentence
pol
noun- Many of the city's residents have criticized local pols for their decision to close the public library.
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The current pols in office aren't likely to pay a price.
—Arkansas Online, 16 Mar. 2026
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Who really knows what these pols escape to in their hours off the stump?
—Armond White, National Review, 8 Sep. 2023
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But then if a pol says something over and over, somebody will believe it.
—John Baer, Philly.com, 20 Feb. 2018
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But even in that event, pols will still have an important impact on where the lines are drawn.
—Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 24 May 2018
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Many other pols are poised to speak at the party confab, the state party said.
—BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
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But both practices do show that pols are figuring out how to game the top-two system.
—Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 25 Apr. 2018
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Such a fragile, thin-skinned pol doesn’t deserve to be in City Hall.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
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And now past pols who’d been caught with their hand in the cookie jar were scurrying to hire appeals lawyers.
—Will Bunch, Philly.com, 19 July 2017
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Washington pols on both sides of the aisle need to tighten oversight and weed out fraud in its nascent stages.
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 31 Dec. 2025
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Sadly, too many of those Latino pols talked a big game about people power.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2023
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Ethics reform remains a distant dream that our pols refuse to entertain.
—Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2025
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But once the horrible pol is gone, stronger but more cautious candidates emerge.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 14 Jan. 2026
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India to send envoy, backed by its military, to release judges & pol.
—Muneeza Naqvi, The Seattle Times, 11 Feb. 2018
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The fast-talking, wisecracking lawyer-pol has been replaced by an old man who can’t stop talking about the past.
—Time, 30 Jan. 2020
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But Fetterman was never the kind of pol who put much stock in seeming perfect.
—Molly Ball, Time, 20 July 2023
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Being elected to serve their constituents shouldn’t be a winning lottery ticket for pols.
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
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Every state also has sleazy politicians, but Florida’s pols take the cake.
—National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2016
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More on the investigation and the pols' response in my story.
—Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 26 July 2017
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The money and access will get cut off, there will be a primary, and the offending pol will end up an outcast.
—David Roberts, Vox, 21 June 2019
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Most of the City Council doesn’t care for him, and Cook County pols don’t like him.
—Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026
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Or, as the pols like to put it—legalize the recreational use of marijuana.
—Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 17 Apr. 2018
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The bribery charges seem as ludicrous on their face as the extortion charges against that pol seemed in 1980.
—Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 30 Sep. 2017
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One reason the campaign trail has enticed so many pols is that Republicans’ chances seem strong.
—Stephen Eide, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
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The crooked pols and wags unleash the arsonists to churn dollars to development.
—Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
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Blue-state pols like Newsom will see this as a battle worth having to burnish their anti-Trump cred.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025
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The largest crowd by far hadn’t gathered around one of the prominent national pols who’d addressed the audience.
—Sam Walker, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
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Legislators were still working out what costs would be covered by the organization, one of the pols said.
—Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 14 Sep. 2025
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Padilla was among the pols joining Newsom to rally support for Prop 50.
—Maya Singer, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2026
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The groan-inducing attempts at humor that have marked the breakfast for decades are a mainstay, and, expectedly, so are the pols this year.
—Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2018
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