How to Use civility in a Sentence

civility

noun

• They greeted each other with the usual exchange of civilities.
• 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
• Pelosi is asked at a news conference about the breakdown of civility in the House.
  — Arit John, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The open contempt for science is only good for the slice of the electorate who wants to embrace raw rejection of civility.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 28 Feb. 2022
• Dressing up for the airport is very much a thing of the past (as is leg room, edible meals, and general civility).
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2024
• Find some civility, reel in your Me-ism, give a damn about people other than yourselves.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 18 Apr. 2022
• The push for civility comes six months into a rancorous and uncivil first session of the 118th Congress.
  — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2023
• What is to preserve their abundance, or even their civility?
  — WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
• They’re asked to be on their best behavior when civility has become scarce.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• The idea that, in contrast to Iraq and Afghanistan, which are presumably used to ceaseless conflicts, Europe is a bastion of peace and civility is absurd.
  — Peniel E. Joseph, CNN, 2 Mar. 2022
• The Wilsons lived in poisonous silence, beneath a veneer of civility.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• To cap off the meeting, both board members and officials with the school asked the community to maintain civility.
  — James T. Norman, chicagotribune.com, 9 Feb. 2022
• Nolen believes a return to civility is possible – so long as the people in charge demand it.
  — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2021
• The two fall in love and a decade-and-a-half romance ensues, the only on-screen civility to be seen in an otherwise vagrant and collapsed society.
  — Allison Hope, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
• Realists might go for a four-door Outer Banks and its on-pavement civility.
  — Car and Driver, 17 Jan. 2023
• In large measure, Biden's innate civility and predictability brought the sort of climate change that the world could get behind.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 Jan. 2022
• Even when Baka would later have to vote one of their own out, it was all seemingly done with as much civility as possible.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2022
• Vivek Ramaswamy, who has been more than comfortable playing the villain on stage and hurling over-the-top insults at his rivals, hits a new low in terms of civility.
  — Tim Hanrahan, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
• When the world is haywire, fashion can reflect it, but just as powerful is clothing that knows how to lend civility and comfort.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 June 2022
• The committee vice chair called for civility and decorum, but the parents were too furious.
  — Zachary Siegel, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
• These are the same people who will preach endlessly about the lack of civility in our political system.
  — Chicago Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024