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Example sentences for "polis"

Lexicographically close words:
policy; policyholders; polin; poling; poliomyelitis; polished; polisher; polishers; polishes; polishing
  1. The brutal polis refused to give it to thim an' a desp'rate battle followed.

  2. Ye'll niver get it be askin' th' polis f'r it.

  3. In th' good old days th' polis coorts were crowded with th' poor.

  4. As the POLIS to the Greek, was the House of Vipont to Alban Vipont Morley.

  5. But the Polis too, as we have seen in the last essay, fell with the rise of Macedon.

  6. In the realm of thought, on the whole, the Polis triumphed.

  7. The attempt to make Olympianism a religion of the Polis failed also.

  8. The actual Polis was real and tangible, the Homeric gods a little alien and literary.

  9. What the succeeding ages built upon the ruins of the Polis is not our immediate concern.

  10. The thermometer at Polis had been 57 degrees at 7 A.

  11. Polis was a straggling place situated upon either side of a river, through the bed of which a very reduced stream was flowing about three inches in depth.

  12. The city of Palæpolis was situated at no great distance from the spot where Neapolis now stands.

  13. We were able to use horses more or less as far as the top of the Polis range, but the trail down its eastern slopes was impracticable for horses and dangerous for pedestrians.

  14. The first time I climbed Polis Mountain, on my way from the Bontoc country to the land of the Ifugaos, four Igorots went ahead of me, armed with head-axes and lances, carrying their shields in position.

  15. Prior to 1903, if an Ifugao showed himself on the north side of the Polis range he lost his head.

  16. Ceteras autem partes lapidis merito estimare potes, influentiam a reliquis celi partibus retinere, ut non sic solum polos lapidis a polis mundi, sed totum lapidem a toto celo, recipere influentiam et virtutem, estimes.

  17. I tell ye the polis are closin' round us, and there's no' a moment to lose if we would get back to the boats.

  18. That's why we've got to hang on to them till the polis comes.

  19. Ye're lippenin' to the polis, but in a' my days I never kenned the polis in time.

  20. They'll be ower late--the polis are aye ower late.

  21. That should keep us goin' till the polis arrive, unless they're comin' wi' the blind carrier.

  22. If he thinks the polis has arrived, he'll put the wind up the lot.

  23. Tis a dam sight asier thin goin' over with a slug iv joynt powder an' blowin' up a polis station with no wan in it.

  24. But th' mistake th' chief iv th' polis made was to r-run in a butcher at th' same time.

  25. They ought to be a rule f'r th' polis to pinch anny pote caught poting between th' hours iv twelve an' twelve.

  26. I do me jooty; an' I believe in th' polis foorce, though not in polismen.

  27. He had a stairt, but the brae was steep, and I was thinking it would no' be long before I had a grup o' him when the polis cam' ower the dyke behind.

  28. The polis are no' good friends o' mine," Pete replied doubtfully.

  29. The Park Commissioner and the Commissioner of Polis and the Forestry Commission gets together and agrees to let the people sleep in the parks until the Weather Bureau gets the thermometer down again to a living basis.

  30. Her help had been important to Michael, and he had rewarded her after he reconquered the Polis and made himself its Basileus by keeping her as his favorite for a time.

  31. The Polis was the hub of the world, the fulfillment of all desires.

  32. The people of the Polis had risen against the Franks, and the Franks had retaliated by killing everyone they could lay hands upon.

  33. And her place in the Polis was dependent on the basileus, Michael.

  34. There is a distinction between Nomos and Polis as between the god Chemmis and the god Alexander; in an administrative respect there is not any difference.

  35. Hitherto, doubtless, in official language the Egyptian town calls itself Nomos, the Greek Polis, but a Polis without Archontes and Bouleutae is a meaningless name.

  36. A woman niver cares how manny men are kilt, but a man believes in fair play, an' he'd like to see th' polis intherfere about Chapter Three.

  37. Although Polis gave all those attending a potion of medicine to keep their stomachs calm, most of the Cardinals still felt gravely ill whilst in Eckma's presence.

  38. Polis spent entire days going through the mechanism in his search for the answer and then he found something.

  39. Seeing that Eckma now looked like a normal, yet still fat woman, and even somewhat appealing, he had several shots given to him every day until Polis devised a capsulate form of taking the drug.

  40. He explained to Polis about Manguino's strange taste, and his even stranger request, then he went off and rounded up the three Cardinals; conveying the message and telling them who the bride was to be.

  41. Lacking trust, Manguino ordered the injection to be given to Polis first and then to Eckma.

  42. In the few years after their marriage, the physician Polis had discovered that Manguino suffered from a venereal cancer and there was a fear of death, but Manguino told Polis to search for the answer in Brook's machines.

  43. With the drug that Polis had developed from the old formula," said Manguino while staring out of the window, "I thought that I would live forever.

  44. They were Manguino and his wife, Orren, Polis and Cardinal Levy.

  45. Ewald and others think that Heroöpolis was identical with the Raamses of the Bible.

  46. Polis meant in early times a particular part of Athens, viz.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ally; borough; burg; chieftaincy; city; colony; commonweal; commonwealth; county; domain; dominion; duchy; dukedom; empire; kingdom; land; mandate; metropolis; municipality; nation; nationality; outskirts; polis; polity; possession; power; principality; protectorate; province; realm; republic; satellite; settlement; state; suburb; sultanate; superpower; territory; township


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    polished rice; polished steel; polished stone