How to Use civilization in a Sentence

civilization

noun

• We are studying ancient Greek civilization.
• And the first signs of civilization arose from the ashes.
  — Jamie Seidel, Fox News, 31 May 2018
• This all takes place in the first draft of civilization.
  — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
• Sun and rain and bush had made the site look old, like the site of a dead civilization.
  — Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 29 Nov. 2022
• The train tracks are one of the few reminders that civilization is near.
  — Christopher Reynoldsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2022
• Over the centuries, civilization brought leisure time and the need to fill it.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 15 Feb. 2022
• The art form can be traced back to some of the oldest civilizations on the planet.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• The only sign of civilization is the towers and their ocean sounds.
  — Matt Allyn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2018
• The falling ropes of the starting gate showed that these sprints were signs of civilization.
  — Janelle Peters, The Atlantic, 26 May 2017
• But the tests indicate the civilization used the cacao seed, not just the fruity pulp.
  — Candice Choi, The Seattle Times, 31 Oct. 2018
• The troops, at least, had a slice of civilization and each other.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 26 Nov. 2020
• And yet the world didn’t end, and civilization trudged onward.
  — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2022
• More people will be killed and the survival of our civilization is at stake.
  — ABC News, 24 July 2022
• The rest of us can only shake our heads and wonder about the future of civilization.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2022
• What's at stake here could be the future of civilization.
  — Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2020
• At some point, the man and his dogs attempted to hike back to civilization.
  — oregonlive.com, 24 July 2019
• The rise of the city is looked upon as the dawn of civilization, but a deep mystery surrounds the first city-dwellers.
  — Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020
• No sign of civilization has been found in any space mission so far.
  — Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2023
• The veil of civilization may be thin, but not all that lies behind it is savage.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 31 Mar. 2020
• Public art says a lot about the values of our civilization.
  — Don Stacom, courant.com, 6 Aug. 2021
• Pathogens have helped shape civilization, and humans have been resilient in the face of such crises.
  — Charlotte Roberts, The Conversation, 15 June 2020
• These little deaths are part of the grand bargain of living in a civilization.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 13 June 2017
• This tenet of civilization has been eroding for some time.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 17 June 2019
• Time may have eroded the memory of a civilization but not the mystery of what was long ago.
  — La Cañada Valley Sun, 12 Aug. 2019
• So do refugees streaming out of the wreckage, and so do civilizations.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 22 June 2018
• Our world, our civilization is moving faster and faster and faster.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Mar. 2021
• Since the dawn of civilization, humans have had only one world in which to live: the real one.
  — Sarah E. Needleman, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
• After this, the kids would go back to civilization, to their screens and batteries and games.
  — Frank Bures, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2019
• The mile-long drive off the main road pulls guests away from civilization and toward a clubhouse that is tucked between the trees.
  — Brent Kennedy, Howard County Times, 20 June 2018
• Miles from civilization, they were hemmed in by thickets of willow and tamarisk along both banks of the river.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Apr 2024