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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:

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.
Eventually he does locate Nachtigel and, after some false pleasantries, he shoots him.
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.
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.