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The corn laws were repealed, the rotten boroughs were redistricted and the Whigs (soon to be renamed the Liberals) became credible contenders for power.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
Corruption was rife in the political scene, particularly in the rotten boroughs. Times, Sunday Times
It won't be enough to sit tight in a safely rotten borough. Times, Sunday Times
Rotten boroughs thrived (and were brilliantly lampooned in Blackadder. Times, Sunday Times
Particularly in the long-term New Labour rotten boroughs of the north, local government appointments are a New Labour nexus. Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com