How to Use comity in a Sentence

comity

noun
  • Wednesday was a day for comity.
    — David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • And there was all too much comity between the candidates on trade.
    — The Editors, National Review, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The idea of comity amongst nations has been a decades-long tradition.
    — Quartz, 30 Nov. 2022
  • But today, the scene is very different, and the prospects of such comity are grim.
    — Jonathan Stevenson, The New York Review of Books, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The tolerance and comity learned from those friendships can last a lifetime.
    — N. Gregory Mankiw, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Once comity prevails, the co-counsels are co-equals in friendship and respect.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Despite the otherwise testy tone, one moment of comity rose through.
    — Time, 8 Feb. 2020
  • And the comity that once pervaded Google’s workforce was frayed.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2023
  • None of us have served one minute in the Senate that was completely drained of comity and consent.
    — Mitch McConnell, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The answers provoked appear to end the comedy, if not the town’s comity, too, once and for all.
    — Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2017
  • Progressive Democrats have sniffed that his nostalgia for a long-ago era of comity is naive.
    — Doyle McManus Los Angeles Times (tns), Star Tribune, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Now, Novichok agents are shaping up as a potential area of comity.
    — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Whether the hours of comity will turn into a lasting peace is still an open question — but that didn’t make those hours any less historic.
    — Alex Ward, Vox, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace.
    — H. R. McMaster, National Review, 12 June 2021
  • There is no such comity between the country’s leaders now, analysts say.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
  • But there are real questions of whether those old days of comity and compromise are gone forever.
    — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Sometimes the maintenance of civic comity requires a touch of restraint.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 13 May 2022
  • In the film, their newfound comity is attributed to the maturity that comes with age.
    — Vulture, 3 Aug. 2022
  • What followed was a surprising display of comity.
    — Zac Anderson, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
  • For one thing, comity serves all, where being competitive and quick to take umbrage wins you nothing but stress.
    — Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 3 June 2017
  • The trouble is that there’s no way to deal with the climate crisis that keeps the kind of elite comity Biden strives for intact.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The era of growing trade comity, and free and unfettered trade with rivals, is looking more like a fad and less like the end point of a trend.
    — Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
  • And like the Senate where Breyer used to work, the court now has less room for compromise and comity.
    — Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Americans could then march hand-in-hand toward a nirvana of permanent comity.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2021
  • How to convince them that comity is preferable to repression, and that a belief in magic is better than faith?
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Still, for all of Biden's attempts to put forward a show of comity, there were limits on what the leaders could agree to in the end.
    — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 13 June 2021
  • Right, forget all those niceties about decorum and comity and Robert’s Rules of Order.
    — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2021
  • For one thing, comity serves all, whereas being competitive and quick to take umbrage wins you nothing but stress.
    — Carolyn Hax, Philly.com, 3 June 2017
  • And the promise of comity was dramatically torn apart.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Some would suggest Collins is a throwback to a bygone era of bipartisan comity.
    — Charlie Dent, CNN, 3 Apr. 2022

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