How to Use civility in a Sentence

civility

noun
  • They greeted each other with the usual exchange of civilities.
  • And both yearn for the days of more civility and less anger.
    — Ricardo Torres, jsonline.com, 29 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • What to do when logic and civility seem to have flown out the window?
    — Vogue, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Here are some of the reasons experts say led to more civility.
    — Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Want to help keep your inbox a place of civility and courtesy?
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 6 Nov. 2019
  • All of this with the usual civility reserved for a knife fight.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Insist that civility be paramount at all times and in all places.
    — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Across the country, the last decade has seen a stark decline in civility.
    — oregonlive, 31 Dec. 2019
  • And the way she's done it, these bold things, always with civility and kindness.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 14 Nov. 2022
  • In fact, these are the worst, most vile offenders against civility.
    — Fox News, 3 July 2018
  • The role of civility and awareness of personal bias will be a key theme.
    — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • But these days civility, much like rudeness, can ride a stream of shares and retweets to the far corners of the world.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 1 June 2026
  • 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
  • Price's title hints at the angst and lack of civility among some of the attendees.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 23 July 2021
  • It’s been said before, but a rude press is a good press, and civility is overrated.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 24 Dec. 2019
  • The Barcelona team had asked its fans to behave with civility and not to affect the match.
    — Fox News, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Stand up for what's right and good; do it with creativity and wit — and civility.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Critics on the right pounced, accusing the left of a lack of civility.
    — Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2018
  • Not to be overlooked is the lack of civility on social media.
    — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 26 June 2021
  • Now is not the time to call for civility, unity, and sympathy.
    — Danté Stewart, TIME, 19 July 2024
  • His message of civility and respect echoes from a distant, even quaint, time.
    — John T. Shaw, Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2025
  • His message of civility and respect echoes from a distant, even quaint, time.
    — John T. Shaw, Twin Cities, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Oh -- and, at times, civility, peace and not feeling like the world is imploding.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Is the basket an outpost of civility in a game often marred by flagrant fouls and trash talk?
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 5 May 2018
  • Order, beauty, civility — small weapons against the evils that threatened to ram at the gates.
    — Ayana Mathis, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2020
  • There are dozens of snipers all around the city, ensuring trade is done with civility, but that is just the ground level.
    — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • That civility is a thin veneer.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
  • The burden of civility, the police claim, falls on the couple.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023

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