How to Use civic in a Sentence

civic

adjective
  • Recent improvements to the downtown area are a point of civic pride.
  • Voting is your civic duty.
  • The third section of the presentation focuses on broader themes of civic engagement.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
  • That is the crux of civic engagement, to leverage our vote and collective power towards meaningful change in our communities.
    Brea Baker, refinery29.com, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The Cook County Forest Preserves are a gem that civic leaders over a hundred years ago had the foresight to protect.
    Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Tanner joined Kent and Hoster at the meeting in urging attendees to unite and pressure civic leaders to stand up for decency and protect children.
    Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Oct. 2022
  • According to leading civic experts, there are a few key principles that can serve as guides for educators—and leaders across a broad spectrum of fields—in the days after a chaotic election.
    Meg Little Reilly, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Universities, chambers of commerce and other civic organizations can use their own resources to sponsor similar inquiries.
    CNN, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Deciding to run was the culmination of an intense father-son bond that was full of love and mutual respect but also defined in part by a son’s decades-long effort to chart his own path as a businessman and civic leader.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • One of your passions right now is the O’Connor House project, a space used to host civic groups.
    Tim Dillon, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Serving the state in which Druze live is both a civic duty and a tenet of their faith.
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2024
  • More than 100 members of the civic group were in the audience.
    Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2024
  • But the Stein-Miller home is more than a tool for civic engagement.
    Maria L. La Ganga, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • And that's the one piece of our civic culture that is now being attacked.
    William Turton, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The mission of the Times isn’t profit alone but civic duty.
    Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Most of the 350 rental units planned for the site, which would also add retail and civic space, would be even more expensive.
    Desiree Stennett, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Why not a civic makeover, one about, oh, several decades overdue?
    Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
  • TurnUp is on a mission to inspire each to take civic action.
    Shannon Farley, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Sports is used as the vehicle to teach kids law, civic engagement, and ways to promote change.
    Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Jung, 28, was there to talk about the role of local government and civic engagement.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2024
  • For a big-city civic museum, the Carnegie in Pittsburgh is an idiosyncratic place.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Alma Powell, civic leader and widow to the late Colin Powell, has died at the age of 86.
    Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 30 July 2024
  • Maybe this seems like a hollow threat to inspire action from civic leaders.
    Bill Oram, oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
  • But in recent months the concept — if not the sites — gained traction, with endorsements from dozens of civic leaders.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2023
  • Brazilian civic institutions held the line and that outcome did not come to pass.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023
  • In the Cincinnati of my childhood, baseball was a civic religion.
    Brandon Harris, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Five candidates turned up in the last hour from 11 a.m. to noon touting civic duty as the main draw to entering their races.
    Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Pardons can reinstate some civic rights including the right to own a firearm or serve on a jury.
    Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • And increased civic engagement is even more available to the people.
    Ernest Owens, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Will the plaza become a thriving civic spot when games or other events aren’t happening?
    Sam Lubell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024

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