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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:

No pleasantries, just this small exchange, the barest information, nothing that was not necessary.
For much of the first hour, Redgrave's Clarissa Dalloway drifts around a sunny, post-World War I London, talking excitedly of a party to take place at her home that evening, exchanging formal pleasantries with various aristocrats, and moving in and out of her memories.
After exchanging a few pleasantries, he lowered his voice and asked, “What do you think of Martha and I as a potential twosome?”
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.
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.