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Example sentences for: civilizing

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She and three young woman companions brought a civilizing influence to the harshness of the beleaguered settlement.
--leader (possibly) of the civilizing Forces.
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.
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.