Example sentences for: civilizing

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

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

  • 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.

  • She and three young woman companions brought a civilizing influence to the harshness of the beleaguered settlement.

  • 1 on his list of things to do for June 30, 1993, was to "articulate the vision of civilizing humanity and recivilizing all Americans."

  • Socialists talked of Italy’s “civilizing mission” in the Mediterranean, seeking to divert the flow of emigrants (heading increasingly to the Americas) to experimental collectiv e land management in new African colonies in Tripoli and Cyrenaica.


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