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Example sentences for "representative body"

  • In the West the tendency is to transfer legislative authority from a representative body directly to the people.

  • A convention is a representative body elected by the people to meet at some specified time and place for some specified purpose, and its existence ends with the accomplishment of that purpose.

  • The hundred court was a representative body, composed of the lords of lands or their stewards, with the reeve and four selected men and the parish priest from each township.

  • The authority of parliament was derived from the fact that it was a representative body, but it did not represent Americans.

  • Tampering with the boroughs, had so filled the House of Commons with Tories that it had almost ceased to be a representative body, and if Pitt would not bow to his wishes, he would find a Minister who would.

  • It is the proper duty of a representative body to look diligently into every affair of government and to talk much about what it sees.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "representative body" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ancient buildings; could only; dear girl; distinguished guests; football game; for the first time; forward policy; general references; green gravel; hand over; latter times; lemon grated; native town; quite variable; representative assembly; representative body; representative democracy; representative from; representative government; representative species; thine own; thoughts were; thousand guilders; times past; will curdle; will form