Example sentences for: civilization

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

  • Still, Gore is someone who once wrote (in his 1992 book Earth in the Balance ) that "we must make the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization."

  • Although bereft of up-to-date display cases and featuring explanations written in Chinese only, this museum provides the most exhaustive overview of Chinese civilization — illustrated with national treasures — of any gallery in China.

  • In The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention , the eminent Stanley Hoffmann, professor of French civilization at Harvard, takes on this task.

  • For about 4000 years, the Archaics thrived in a culture that included many signs of early civilization.

  • In 1973 Doubleday wisely reissued The Young Visiters , and it got a rave review by Alan Friedman in The New York Times . He called it “a tiny novel that begs comparison with giants: Tolstoy's War and Peace , Flaubert's Sentimental Education , and Lawrence's Women in Love may be bigger, but The Young Visiters too manages to contain and display, more gracefully than the giants, an entire civilization.”


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