Example sentences for: civilizations

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

  • In an interview Thursday with La Repubblica of Rome, Khatami said he was "deeply displeased to see that a person who has offended the feelings and the religious beliefs of more than one billion people of the Muslim faith throughout the world should be encouraged in this way, thus perpetuating the conflict between our civilizations."

  • Three great civilizations have shaped this part of the city — Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman.

  • "Civilizations are the ultimate human tribes, and the clash of civilizations is tribal conflict on a global scale," he writes in the book.

  • The jacket copy says that the germ of the book--Huntington's 1993 Foreign Affairs essay "The Clash of Civilizations?"

  • The "civilizations" part of Huntington's thesis is less troubling than the "clash" part.


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