How to Use civilized in a Sentence

civilized

adjective

• Try to act like a civilized human being!
• Stop yelling. We have to be more civilized about this.
• A civilized society must respond to crime with fairness and justice.
• It was hanged, on the premise that this was the most civilized method.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
• Bring a picnic lunch or have a civilized tea in one of the shops.
  — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2017
• Hong Kong deserves the support of the U.S. and the civilized world, but that alone will not be enough.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 31 July 2019
• Are these flies just stoned and don’t know that their rightful place is not among the civilized?
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
• Hunters, for the most part, have become a bit more civilized, at least on the surface.
  — John Schandelmeier, Alaska Dispatch News, 15 Aug. 2017
• The killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is great news for the civilized world.
  — Brett McGurk, The Denver Post, 28 Oct. 2019
• The origins of policing date back to ancient Egypt and spread across the civilized world in many forms.
  — USA Today, 1 Oct. 2020
• While Liggett gets up at a civilized time, Roll’s alarm is set for a ghastly 3:45 a.m.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
• On the one hand, a hallmark of civilized thought is the sense that every life is precious.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2022
• The civilized in this case being the Arab Muslim, and the barbaric being the Latin Frank.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2010
• The film based on real-life outlaws is set at a time when the west starts to become more civilized.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Jan. 2023
• The 100-seat patio is roomy but civilized, with proper tables and chairs on the deck.
  — Emma Balter, Chron, 6 May 2022
• For Biden, the contrasts include one that now pits Russia against much if not most of the civilized world.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 1 Mar. 2022
• Now is the time for the civilized world to respond firmly to Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
  — Andrii Smyrnov, Time, 23 Sep. 2022
• This is how a civilized society deals with a man in such a state of terror?
  — Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2022
• Egypt has long been the most important — some would argue the most civilized — country in the Arab world.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Oct. 2020
• Each of these stages was more productive and more civilized than the last, but also less equal and less free.
  — George Scialabba, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2021
• With that in mind, this still isn't a civilized everyday two-seater.
  — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 24 May 2021
• Following the update given to the more civilized Elantra sedan the Elantra N is based on, the 2024 model gets new duds.
  — Car and Driver, 19 Apr. 2023
• Han is a character who doesn’t fit — or want to fit — into the civilized world.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 21 Apr. 2018
• Truth is, trash fish, or rough fish, often save the day when more civilized species like bass and trout won’t co-oper-ate.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 2 Aug. 2019
• At a very civilized dinner aboard one of the ships, at a table with two admirals and Maj.
  — Austin Murphy, SI.com, 4 July 2017
• And for those wanting M speed in a more civilized car, an Alpina B8 is a near certainty as well.
  — Steve Siler, Car and Driver, 8 Sep. 2017
• And for those wanting M speed in a more civilized car, an Alpina B8 is a near certainty as well.
  — Jens Meiners, Car and Driver, 26 July 2017
• Stars like her civilized approach to the divorce process.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2021
• In many places, it’s considered one of the basic arts that every civilized person should know.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 22 Sep. 2024
• It‘s the civilized, patriarchal world that drives her to drink—and Shauna to despair, and Taissa to compartmentalize her political aspirations into one box and, er, blood sacrifice into another.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024