How to Use civility in a Sentence

civility

noun
  • They greeted each other with the usual exchange of civilities.
  • The most terrifying scene on a Broadway stage at the moment occurs with complete civility.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
  • But the show has known that the stakes of civility are too high not to crack up from time to time.
    Wesley Morris Ron Butler Emma Kehlbeck Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Blame the enemy for the death of civility, and swear to bury the godless curs alive. VI.
    Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The burden of civility, the police claim, falls on the couple.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The bottom line is that civility is the new bottom line.
    Shelby Scarbrough, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • There was a sense of civility to him, and maybe the ground crew saw that in interacting with him.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 July 2024
  • Pelosi is asked at a news conference about the breakdown of civility in the House.
    Arit John, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2022
  • This time the Trump-Biden debates need tight rules of civility.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2024
  • Price's title hints at the angst and lack of civility among some of the attendees.
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 23 July 2021
  • Slavery ruled in 1854, in the same spot civility reigns now.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 6 Apr. 2021
  • And there’s still time to regain some civility in our public life once Trump leaves the White House.
    Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
  • And the way she's done it, these bold things, always with civility and kindness.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Of course, some are chiming in with calls for civility.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 9 May 2022
  • Here are some of the reasons experts say led to more civility.
    Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Order, beauty, civility — small weapons against the evils that threatened to ram at the gates.
    Ayana Mathis, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Asked about Vance’s comments, Buttigieg took the high road while still making a very sharp point about civility.
    Tom Tapp, Deadline, 24 July 2024
  • Like Donald Trump before him, Biden should project at least the notion of civility and convey the stature of the office.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Oh -- and, at times, civility, peace and not feeling like the world is imploding.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 5 Nov. 2020
  • But, off the stage, Rife has an air of Midwestern civility.
    Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2024
  • This, in turn, touched off a paroxysm of media takes about whether such confrontations broke the bounds of civility.
    Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Not to be overlooked is the lack of civility on social media.
    Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 26 June 2021
  • Insist that civility be paramount at all times and in all places.
    Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Now is not the time to call for civility, unity, and sympathy.
    Danté Stewart, TIME, 19 July 2024
  • Nevertheless, the notion of civility (or the lack thereof) is much in the news these days.
    Kenneth Lasson, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2024
  • This past week's stunning lack of civility on Capitol Hill may offer a glimpse as to why.
    CBS News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • And that wasn’t the only waste of time or insult to civility that set off Dettloff and others.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Bermuda has long been a haven of sunshine and civility for East Coast jet-setters.
    Janice O'Leary, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Each of these men and women agreed to–and are held to–a cross-partisan pledge of civility and habits of legislative action.
    Tucker Eskew, Fortune, 19 July 2023
  • Maybe the desire for civility will lead exactly to that.
    Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024

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