How to Use amity in a Sentence

amity

noun
  • Of course, their amity turned out to be a time bomb.
    — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Such shows of cross-party amity in Washington have grown rare.
    — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Such amity is only a lull, however, as these two groups work out the terms of a new relationship.
    — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2020
  • It should not be muted or muffled by false amity or forgotten for the sake of unachievable harmony.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The belt depicts two figures holding hands, showing the amity between Penn and the Lenapes.
    — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2021
  • But by then amity, bipartisanship and eco-consciousness had met their limits.
    — Michael Dresser, baltimoresun.com, 5 May 2017
  • Many have celebrated this newfound amity as the end of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
    — Kenneth M. Pollack, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
  • More profound is the widespread amity and prosperity that have resulted.
    — Jeffrey A. Engel, Twin Cities, 6 June 2019
  • The American-Russian amity that underpinned their work has gone.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • This simple act, motivated by compassion and amity, often leads to disaster and heartache.
    — James Berman, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • But any amity Hernandez built up with the gang all but collapsed after three days detailing robberies, assaults and drug crimes for a federal jury.
    — Deanna Paul, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2019
  • So what Biden intends as a plea for political amity is actually an act of political cowardice.
    — Leonard Pitts Jr - Miami Herald, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Xi’s first in person with a world leader in nearly two years — is expected to be yet another public display of geopolitical amity between the two powers.
    — Edward Wong, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The retired justice believes Oaks was addressing such people, while also issuing a call to those on all sides of these issues to seek compromise and amity.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 June 2021
  • Ellison’s reformist tendencies have, amid so much amity, quietly receded.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
  • But the racial amity that was his fondest hope remained a distant dream, and his lapses in responding to the Crown Heights crisis became an insurmountable legacy.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The Lousy Linguist is skeptical of my contention that very high linguistic diversity is not conducive to economic growth or social amity.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2010
  • My aunt told her to ask our grandmother, another collector, who told my exasperated cousin that for the sake of spiritual amity, she was allowed to dispose of the statue only in a rushing river.
    — Clio Chang, New York Times, 6 July 2021
  • In an equally surprising step, the White House torched Manchin afterward in a statement bristling with resentment that shattered the amity Biden had sought to cultivate.
    — Kevin Liptak, Phil Mattingly and Kaitlan Collins, CNN, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Trump gambled that the show of amity could crack the nuclear logjam, underscoring his faith in the power of his own personal diplomacy — even with brutal strongmen like Kim — to achieve what past presidents could not.
    — Michael Crowley, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2019
  • Canadian officials are optimistic that Biden will usher in a period of greater personal amity and cooperation.
    — Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The Senate Intelligence Committee has managed to maintain more amity between members.
    — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The Next Generation is its assertion that intergalactic amity can exist only in an atmosphere of stifling formality.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • And despite the show of Franco-English amity in Paris, a combination of political tremors and economic headwinds across Europe is making the task far more difficult.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The Cold War experience, in fact, suggests that a working relationship with an authoritarian Russia didn’t evolve from amity or personal chemistry among leaders.
    — Aleksandar Matovski, Washington Post, 16 May 2017
  • In the novel’s Hughesian sonic atmosphere and in its Hurstonian intimacy, the amity and enmity, among Morrison’s characters.
    — Adam Bradley, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The glamorization of modernism owed much to the aura of Allied triumph in the Second World War, which established so many other parameters of national amity that have lately, and rapidly, been crumbling.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Nations like like Indonesia, India, or Brazil, predicated on utopian diversity myths actually have to work very hard to maintain inter-ethnic amity, even in the face of extensive hybridization.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2012

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