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How to use hoi polloi in a sentence

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The Galilean, sir, was a paladin for the destitute, the downtrodden, the impecunious hoi polloi.
None of that endless schlepping up and down the country, pressing sweaty palms with the hoi polloi and osculating their kids.
Remote and uncommunicative was their description as Whyte avoided the hoi polloi, preferring to spend time with the corporate elite.
They've had centuries to do little but perfect the small talk required when meeting the hoi polloi who pay for their increasingly bizarre visits.
She says half her daily calls are from angry residents who can't believe they have to share the sidewalk with the hoi polloi.
Essentially, he came out sounding like a high priest offended that the hoi polloi were infringing on his turf.
There is something humbling about watching the great and the good do things normally reserved for the hoi polloi.
Unfortunately, too often, it is the liberals who believe that they should run the country because they're superior to the hoi polloi.
Apparently it's too risky to divulge to the hoi polloi where money is spent.
Yesterday's announcement made it clear they no longer want to engage with the hoi polloi.
Beyond the property lines, too, Chilmark is well tailored to the hoi polloi avoider.
But having skited, it could hardly expect the hoi polloi to discern between true cash and pre-spent cash, or between capital and other spending commitments.
But a cloistered career does not necessarily portend a lack of empathy with the hoi polloi.
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.
So a few thousand people will finally liquidize their locked-up wealth, and the hoi polloi will at last be able to buy Facebook shares.
But the thing about democracy is that it's supposed to keep a lid on the worst impulses of the ruling class by allowing the hoi polloi to be involved in the process.
This piques romantic curiosity in a fellow refugee of the hoi polloi.
The hoi polloi were there in force, well scrubbed and sipping something sparkly.
It's only the hoi polloi and the trough tubbies that make it into the papers.
That is, the premium-ticket holders won't be standing in front of the hoi polloi, blocking our view.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But where hoi polloi thinks that it gets the best of everything it is mistaken.
The book Im at work on is a deliberate attempt to pander to the depraved taste of hoi polloi.
But these are placed upon the table down below, where hoi polloi and the lame, blind, and halt sit down and eat.
The third was for the hoi polloi of the white race, and the fourth for the people of color whose color was more evident.
And what a Vandervent eats for breakfast makes snappy reading, I think you'd call it, for hoi polloi, eh?
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