Example sentences for: civilizing

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

  • Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau . In this 1896 novel, a vivisectionist attempts to transform animals into men until the misshapen creatures revert and kill him, the forces of nature overcoming man's civilizing artifices.

  • Led by the Southern-born Ulrich Phillips, whose American Negro Slavery (1918) was the standard work in the field for decades, leading academic historians portrayed slavery as a benevolent, paternalistic institution that benefited blacks by civilizing them.

  • In his best core-curriculum name-dropping style, Will compared Miss Manners on the civilizing power of social convention to Plato, Burke, Lincoln, Metternich, the Founding Fathers, and Pope Pius IX.

  • The West's civilizing role seems to involve the destruction, for the first time since Hitler, of Europe's most beautiful cities.

  • --leader (possibly) of the civilizing Forces.


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