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.
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From local civic fisticuffs to mass school shootings, most of us have an internal voice that says stop.
— WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022 -
As such, the platform is also a key target for bad actors whom experts say could wreak havoc on elections and civic processes.
— Clare Duffy, CNN, 26 Aug. 2022 -
Still others have been converted into civic projects, like churches, museums or community centers.
— Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 26 Nov. 2024 -
Mykhaylo Svystovych was a business consultant and civic activist with unruly gray hair and a middle-aged belly and squinting eyes behind thick glasses.
— George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022 -
The choppiest lyrical turns arrive at the same ideological destinations as songs about civic duties, driving home through a weedier part of town.
— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2024 -
Yet furniture rental made Mr. Loudermilk a civic leader and philanthropist in Atlanta.
— James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 19 Aug. 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 -
The civic center opened Tuesday at noon and will close at 7 p.m.
— Orlando Sentinel, 28 Sep. 2022 -
And that's the one piece of our civic culture that is now being attacked.
— William Turton, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2023 -
Nuccio, who long has been active in civic life, said the threat was a first.
— Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2022 -
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 -
Those who have applied cited a range of motivations, both professional and civic.
— Alex Konrad, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024 -
Kayla learned that there's actually a lot of activity among civic groups right now to try to turn these stats around, particularly by targeting young people.
— Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Nov. 2024
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