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Example sentences for: pleasantries

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

) After other introductory pleasantries Shaw confessed, “I had an axe of my own to grind; and I thought that Professor Wilson's book might help me to grind it.”
Eventually he does locate Nachtigel and, after some false pleasantries, he shoots him.
There were no pleasantries between them.
The girl is a naive, but her mixture of optimism and spooky prescience gives her perceptions weight, and Hiditch has a subterranean existence that's constantly at odds with his pleasantries: He might well be a psychopath who has preyed on--and dispatched--other young women.
No pleasantries, just this small exchange, the barest information, nothing that was not necessary.