Example sentences for: civility

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

  • What is behind this pseudo familiarity/equality, Prudie thinks, is California casualness and a touchy-feely cultural shift that have replaced formality and civility.

  • As often happens when intellectuals discuss Flytrap, Nagel lapses into a tone of world-weary, almost European snobbishness, declaring that America's inability to respect the rules of civility reveals its immaturity as a society.

  • Yet, even Brookhiser, for all his sober devotion to civility as the key to everything, cannot escape noticing something ridiculous, therefore comic, in Washington's rules.

  • The etiquette expert doesn't want to be mistaken for a Tory stick-in-the-mud--she's all-American, she's egalitarian, she's up-to-date--but she's become a self-important, name-dropping crusader in the civility wars herself.

  • Dole will exploit feminism as well as feminine stereotypes, pitching herself as the candidate of change, civility, and moral renewal.


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