How to Use civic in a Sentence

civic

adjective
  • Recent improvements to the downtown area are a point of civic pride.
  • Voting is your civic duty.
  • That is not healthy for civic life.
    — State Sen. Tony Hwang, Hartford Courant, 22 Mar. 2026
  • When trust erodes, so does civic life.
    — Ugo Troiano, Oc Register, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The darkness is a point of civic pride.
    — David Allan, CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Gary has had civic dreams before.
    — Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Brooks says the event should bring a lot of civic pride to the area.
    — David Wysong, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The City Hall is more of a civic space.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2026
  • That gap is where many civic challenges may begin.
    — Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
  • This is not a civic film exactly.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 23 May 2026
  • The point, Scott said, was to keep the civic muscles strong.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
  • For the past week, civic camaraderie has been at an all-time high.
    — Kyle Wagner, New York Daily News, 3 June 2026
  • Nuccio, who long has been active in civic life, said the threat was a first.
    — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2022
  • At the heart of it is a lesson about civic engagement.
    — Ken Burns, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
  • Public health issues have moved to the center of civic life.
    — Brian Castrucci, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • The civic wheels started turning.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Their lives were turned upside down for doing their civic duty.
    — Charlie Dent, CNN, 21 June 2022
  • And that's the one piece of our civic culture that is now being attacked.
    — William Turton, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Why not a civic makeover, one about, oh, several decades overdue?
    — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Schools are where civic identity begins to form.
    — Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Fans in the post's comment section were quick to joke about the singer's civic duty.
    — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Serving the state in which Druze live is both a civic duty and a tenet of their faith.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But his civic legacy is still unwritten.
    — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 8 June 2026
  • Just look at this young civic enthusiast!
    — Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Listening of this kind is a demanding civic art and civic virtue.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 13 Oct. 2025
  • But the Stein-Miller home is more than a tool for civic engagement.
    — Maria L. La Ganga, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Maybe this seems like a hollow threat to inspire action from civic leaders.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Please list highlights of your civic involvement.
    — Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Please list highlights of your civic involvement.
    — Charlotte Observer, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Please list highlights of your civic involvement.
    — Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2026

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