Example sentences for: formality

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

  • It wasn’t until the 1970s that these vestiges of formality gave way to blue jeans and T-shirts—the casual wear uniform.

  • Hambali claims he was asked to serve on the company's board of directors as a formality and insists that he did not recognize the "Arabs"who were to run the company or play any role in its operations.

  • The lively secular and pagan mosaics from Pompeii’s patrician villas make a striking contrast with the rigid formality of church mosaics that we see elsewhere in Italy.

  • Leigh evidently loves the bloodless formality of the scenes between Gilbert and Sullivan, men of opposite tastes and temperaments who only overlap in their work.

  • What is behind this pseudo familiarity/equality, Prudie thinks, is California casualness and a touchy-feely cultural shift that have replaced formality and civility.


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