How to Use civility in a Sentence

civility

noun
  • They greeted each other with the usual exchange of civilities.
  • 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
  • The ones who want to get back to civility in our discourse.
    Sarah Riley, The Courier-Journal, 11 Jan. 2018
  • 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 Barcelona team had asked its fans to behave with civility and not to affect the match.
    Fox News, 19 Dec. 2019
  • In crass times like these, the deep civility that powers his voice is a balm.
    Frances Mayes, New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • Across the country, the last decade has seen a stark decline in civility.
    oregonlive, 31 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • What to do when logic and civility seem to have flown out the window?
    Vogue, 9 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Critics on the right pounced, accusing the left of a lack of civility.
    Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2018
  • In the wake of Sarah Sanders being asked to leave a Virginia restaurant, there's been a lot of talk about civility.
    Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 28 June 2018
  • And there’s still time to regain some civility in our public life once Trump leaves the White House.
    Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Built to Run All this civility should in no way suggest that the Type R cannot hustle.
    Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 8 July 2017
  • All of this with the usual civility reserved for a knife fight.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The work was intense, but the office was run with civility.
    David Netto, Town & Country, 15 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • The role of civility and awareness of personal bias will be a key theme.
    Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • The trip will be aimed at making the case for the need for greater civility in our political process.
    Katie Ross Dominick, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Etiquette was part of the great wave of civilities books that rolled out across America in the 19th and 20th centuries.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 27 June 2019
  • The serial killer is the Red Death wearing the mask of civility and friendship.
    S.a. Cosby, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
  • When combined with a lack of civility from the top, our community is slowly being torn apart.
    Miami Herald Staff, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Since voters can’t wash a president’s or member of Congress’s mouth out with soap, the question becomes whether this salty language is merely for performative shock value or a sign of declining civility in American culture.
    John Scott Lewinski, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2025

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