How to Use cordiality in a Sentence

cordiality

noun
  • Many such ties are now strained and may never return to their past cordiality.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • There’s cordiality and decorum at these events; anyone can be on their best behavior for a day or so.
    — Julia Cho, New York Times, 21 May 2024
  • This is where the one-size-fits-all cordiality of a massive pop hit begins to feel disorienting.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020
  • There’s a chumminess among them, an old-school cordiality that is also found in the story of a small town where life is hard but friends are everywhere.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 9 Dec. 2021
  • His finest strengths are personality and cordiality, and both were amplified on the stage.
    — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025
  • By 1793 the oppressed people of Paris had come to hate king and clergy with equal cordiality.
    — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
  • Far from the tweet storms and hot glow of camera lights, conservatives and liberals subside into cordiality.
    — Asjylyn Loder, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Despite so much cause for grief, what’s striking about the protagonists is their cordiality and resilient hopefulness.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
  • San Diego’s new mayor and council members have signaled a new level of awareness and cordiality toward our sister community.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2022
  • But Congress, with its protocols and rituals, was considered a relatively safe space for reporters, where cordiality was prized.
    — Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Peterson brought that same peculiar cordiality into his Mirai manhunt.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Black women characters in these stories who actively pursue their own interests without opting for the cordiality that is expected from them are seen as obstacles to be overcome.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Makoto has never approved of his son’s marrying a divorced mother, and the limits of their cordiality begin to show over the course of the family birthday party that begins proceedings.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Liberated from this approach to economic warfare, relations with allies may recover some of their former cordiality.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2026
  • At the moment, just as New York is at 75% occupancy, a lone, fast-on-his-feet waiter is taking care of all the tables with remarkable agility and cordiality.
    — John Mariani, Forbes, 12 May 2021
  • Such cordiality was impossible this time, and Dirk Hauser — head of media for Bayern’s academy then and to this day — had to keep the two men apart, in different parts of the old stadium.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Few things in life are as suited to the low farce of British pantomime as the Brexit talks, and the two chief negotiators have been going at it with a will since a brief and fleeting moment of cordiality and goodwill at last week’s summit.
    — Geoffrey Smith, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2017
  • In contrast to the apparent cordiality of the visit, Biden had made clear his discomfort with sitting face-to-face with the crown prince and repeatedly downplayed his trip to the Saudi Arabia.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2022
  • Following combustive talks between the world’s top two economies in Anchorage last month, little hope remains of recapturing the relative cordiality of the Obama years.
    — Time, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Considering the depth of that enmity, a peace agreement had seemed unthinkable prior to Ahmed’s cordiality with Afwerki, who has served as president for the three decades since independence.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Suspicion is, for obvious reasons, built into the relationship between the press and government officials, but, normally, both parties have felt an interest in maintaining at least the appearance of cordiality.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • That image of cordiality with the backdrop of the palace had been unthinkable until last month, before Sanchez defeated the former prime minister Mariano Rajoy in a parliamentary no confidence vote.
    — Aritz Parra, Fox News, 9 July 2018
  • Certainly, although that era is remembered as a time of relative bipartisan cordiality, there were also major moments of social friction, even during periods when Washington was considered more genteel.
    — Katie Glueck, Town & Country, 29 June 2017
  • But after episodes of divisiveness and fragmentation, our conferences have become festivals of cordiality and civility, peppered with forthright and respectful differences of opinion and interpretation.
    — Patty Limerick, The Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Indianapolis didn't crack Nextdoor's list of the 20 friendliest cities in Indiana, but its separate ranking of neighborhoods in the Indy metro area finds plenty of cordiality in Central Indiana.
    — Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Visuals of exaggerated cordiality between the Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, and President Xi Jinping of China at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit on September 1 displayed China’s convening power.
    — Shyam Saran, Time, 10 Sep. 2025

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