Example sentences for: civilized

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

  • Izvestia said the West was losing its image as a "wise, democratic, and civilized collective force ...

  • (Jane continues to eat her scabs, even as she's being civilized.

  • Yesterday the Journal and today again the Times had front-page pieces on how utterly stupid and pathetic and evil and beneath the dignity of any halfway civilized human being (OK, so they didn't necessarily use those exact words) the whole "managed" health-care system is.

  • The recent vogues for cigars, cocktails, and the Rat Pack were not wistful evocations of a more civilized time; they were wistful evocations of the last great period of big Straight White Guy fun, before the broads and the fags came in to ruin it all.

  • Ours is not now, nor is it ever likely to become, a "civilized" culture in the European sense of the word.


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