Example sentences for: civilization

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

  • 7. Evidence of advance rise of civilization.

  • Forbes : The basis of Western Civilization.

  • Characteristic of the city’s civic consciousness, they portray the Life of Man from Adam’s creation to the rise of civilization through the arts and sciences — music, architecture, metallurgy, and the like — pursued so earnestly by the Florentine guilds that commissioned the work.

  • (The vice president actually came out to dedicate it, pronouncing the occasion as nothing less than the attainment of civilization: "When foreign investors see that big M, they know we're not running around in loincloths."

  • James Salter in the Times on the decline of civilization and the rise of pop culture: Fine, I wish people read books more, too, but didn't it read like a parody of a windy, pretentious old fogey?


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