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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:

Flynn speaks politely, deliberately, in no hurry to press his point and yet unwilling to let his listener off the hook, persisting in the pleasantries well past the point of pleasantness.
No pleasantries, just this small exchange, the barest information, nothing that was not necessary.
Such pleasantries are clearly intended to be both polite and friendly, and responding to proffered congeniality with disdain, reproof, or sarcasm is nothing short of boorish.
However, your point is taken that well-meaning pleasantries should be accepted for what they are, and Prudie's New Year's resolution is to chill when it comes to banalities.
There were no pleasantries between them.