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Example sentences for: civilized

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The Huichol are one of the last remaining indigenous cultures that has been successful in retaining cultural integrity — despite efforts by the “civilized” world to westernize their traditional ways of living.
More to the point, Mamet can have himself a whale of a time directing a series of civilized confrontations that escalate in importance--from the young man who asks Winslow senior for his daughter's hand in marriage (and the precise amount of her dowry) to a cunning barrister, Sir Robert Morton (Jeremy Northam), who uses every rhetorical trick he can think of to wear down a Parliament weary of a twopenny schoolboy scandal.
Although we all plan to be civilized about it, if my father makes some offhand comment about the situation, it will be awkward to say the least.
"The gun control laws of the world's civilized nations."
A stroll along Newbury Street — the city’s most expensive real estate — is the most civilized and congenial of Boston experiences.