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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.
After exchanging a few pleasantries, he lowered his voice and asked, “What do you think of Martha and I as a potential twosome?”
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.
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.