How to Use civil in a Sentence

civil

adjective

• She was barely civil to me.
• It was hard to be civil when I felt so angry.
• They got married in a civil ceremony at city hall.
• Everywhere there was civil order, for the arm of the Roman law was long.
  — WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
• The Married to the Mob streetwear founder has also since shared a lengthy statement about her decision to file a civil suit.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
• Violators would have faced civil penalties and a fine of up to $5,000 by the State Police.
  — CBS News, 13 Sep. 2023
• There is not a full civil trial that is used, for example.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
• That is a job for the civil justice system, the prosecutor said in a press release.
  — Morgan Womack, The Indianapolis Star, 10 July 2023
• But Fred continued to take comfort in the civil suit verdict.
  — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2024
• The former president faces more than a half-a-billion dollars in civil judgements against him in the past month alone.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2024
• Former President Trump is expected to take the stand this week in the civil fraud trial in New York.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2023
• In August 2021, a judge in the United States allowed a civil lawsuit brought by Giuffre to proceed.
  — Max Taylor, NBC News, 5 May 2023
• The woman filed a civil lawsuit against McGregor in 2021.
  — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
• And in these civil cases, what happens is that jurors are asked as a questionnaire.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
• Two, last December, the woman who made the accusation agreed to dismiss Araiza from the civil suit.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
• In the United States, he was found liable in civil court for the rape of his former collaborator Haleigh Breest.
  — Valeria Verbaro, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
• His death has been the subject of a civil suit and years of protests led by his sister, Tawanda Jones, for police accountability.
  — Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
• The Waqf, an Islamic trust that runs civil matters at the mosque, said that 2,240 Jews had entered the compound for the holiday — the highest number recorded in five years.
  — Tia Goldenberg and Isaac Scharf, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
• Prince Carl Gustaf swore an oath of allegiance before his grandfather and all the military and civil chiefs of Sweden.
  — Town & Country, 5 Aug. 2023
• Bird’s lawsuit seeks to force TikTok to correct its statements, as well as financial civil penalties for the harm caused to Iowa consumers.
  — Hannah Fingerhut, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
• Grier had diagnosed schizophrenia and asked the operator for help getting medicine, the civil suit says.
  — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023
• Trump could also be required to give up a portion of profits linked to the properties, depending on the outcome of a civil trial that is scheduled to start next week.
  — Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 29 Sep. 2023
• In September, Scott sat for eight hours of questions in a civil deposition related to the lawsuits against him.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2023
• New York State does offer criminal and civil options for victims of deepfake abuse.
  — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 29 Jan. 2024
• Bragg's office issued a subpoena this May for the videotape and transcript of the deposition Trump gave in Carroll's civil case last fall.
  — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2023
• The threat of jail time, which comes packaged with fines as well, is an interesting turn in a civil case that was never actually going to lead to Trump facing the prospect of jail time.
  — Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
• Kaplan's order came the same day that the judge in the New York civil fraud trial expanded the gag order and the judge in the federal election tampering case paused hers pending appeal.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2023
• Brown and Goldman’s families pursued a wrongful death lawsuit against Simpson in civil court in 1996.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2024
• In the non-jury civil fraud trial stemming from James’ lawsuit, Engoron also imposed a gag order against Trump.
  — Brooke Singman, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2024
• The civil fraud case instituted by James is scheduled for trial in October, with the state seeking to fine him $250 million and stop him from doing business in New York.
  — Michael Kranish, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024