How To Use hoi polloi In A Sentence
- There was no appeal against the Earl's diktat, which is evidence of the vast powers he had over the hoi polloi. Whitehaven News headlines
- Secondly, as regards "hoi polloi", this is actually the correct spelling in Ancient Greek; there is an "aspirate" over the initial letter 'o' (an aspirate looks like a very small letter 'c') and this transforms the sound from an 'o' to a 'ho'. SofiaEcho RSS feed
- Invariably upon these humiliating occasions when Symes dined cheek by jowl with _hoi polloi_ who left their spoons in their cups and departed using a toothpick like a peavy, his thoughts turned to his coming triumph in Crowheart. The Lady Doc
- Next time you're in the theater, look around you at all the somnolent hoi polloi stuffing their faces with popcorn and their psyches with trashy sexploitation.
- I'm not fussy about laicizing a priest so long as he a) is kept away from potential victims and barred from doing priestly work and b) subject to the same civil penalties as the rest of us hoi polloi.
- We do not see the big thick books which were bloody boring and of no real interest either to the literati or the hoi polloi.
- We need to find ways in which we engage the hoi polloi, the so-called masses, in public discourse through indabas, town hall forums, so that no one feels marginalised… their point of view matters, it counts.
- Monstrously inflated costs are designed to keep the hoi polloi at bay.
- A three-course meal I clearly in the hoi polloi category had during Chicago Restaurant Week a few years ago appeared to be based on ingredients the restaurant needed to get rid of, in the form of overripe fruit served picturesquely on stale Italian bread. #RestaurantWeak?
- Remote and uncommunicative was their description as Whyte avoided the hoi polloi, preferring to spend time with the corporate elite.