How To Use rotten borough In A Sentence
- It was the most rotten of rotten boroughs, a place where the corrupt, the fraudulent and the freeloaders prospered.
- The seven voters of Old Sarum were allowed to return two members of Parliament, because this place, -- once a Roman fort, and afterwards a sheepwalk, -- many generations before, at the early casting of the House of Commons, had been entitled to this representation; but the argument for State Rights assumes that all these rights may be lodged in voters as few in number as ever controlled a rotten borough of The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863
- Rotten boroughs thrived (and were brilliantly lampooned in Blackadder. Times, Sunday Times
- The people of Britain will not rest until this rotten borough is swept clean from top to bottom. The Sun
- There was no such system of rotten boroughs, no such domination of a landed aristocracy, throughout the South as has been imagined, and venality, which is the disgrace of current politics, was practically unknown. The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915
- The corn laws were repealed, the rotten boroughs were redistricted and the Whigs (soon to be renamed the Liberals) became credible contenders for power.
- It won't be enough to sit tight in a safely rotten borough. Times, Sunday Times
- Unless and until she stops talking like an eighteenth century Tory oligarch in a rotten borough, the committee would be ill-advised to pick her as a candidate.
- It's not a rotten borough any more. The Sun
- Rotten boroughs thrived (and were brilliantly lampooned in Blackadder. Times, Sunday Times
