Example sentences for: civilians

How can you use “civilians” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In expiating its guilt over past failures, the West has instead sacrificed the lives of the helpless civilians of Kosovo.

  • Half a million civilians died in the Galilee and Judea as a result of this first revolt against Rome, a number unequaled in ancient warfare.

  • Civilians assume software companies spend most of their time writing software.

  • Even if the doors had not been locked, structural and radiation hazards made the rooftops unsuitable staging areas for a large number of civilians; and even if conditions permitted general helicopter evacuations-which was not the case-only several people could be lifted at a time.

  • Based on conditions described by civilians who descended stairwell A from at or above the impact zone, we conclude that stairwell A may have become effectively impassable as the morning progressed.


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