Sentence for civility | Use civility in a sentence

Sentences for civility. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use civility in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for civility.

• Cleanliness, plenty, wholesomeness, civility! (9)
• She answered him with cold civility. (4)
• The secretary behaved with a pretty civility. (10)
• Elinor, with great civility, declined the proposal. (4)
• Captain May bloomed at a civility paid to his wife. (10)
• It would be almost beginning their life of civility again. (4)
• Behind the ostentation of civility, their words were daggers. (10)
• It is one of the important uses of civility to signify resentment. (1)
• Their civility was maintained at the termination of the deadly work. (10)
• With more than equal civility the offer was declined; she did not wish to dance. (4)
• The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention. (4)
• Miss Bingley succeeded no less in the real object of her civility; Mr. Darcy looked up. (4)
• They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. (4)
• I do believe we had a liking for the very highwaymen, if they had any reputation for civility. (10)
• Nothing was omitted, on his side, of civility, compliment, or kindness, that might assist the plan. (4)
• He was bound, of course, to present himself to Lady Camper, in common civility, immediately after it. (10)
• Nothing on earth can a man be so absolutely sure of as to succeed in civility, if he honestly tries at it. (10)
• At length, however, his civility was so far awakened as to inquire of Elizabeth after the health of her family. (4)
• The man was not going to feel bound in further civility to me because I had civilly answered a question of his. (9)
• Besides, after seeing the photograph of the baroness, common civility insisted on the purity of her friendship. (10)
• The major remonstrated with the prince, and expressed to me his regrets and et caeteras of well-meant civility. (10)
• His note was heard rather amid the sweet security of streets, but it was always for a finer and gentler civility. (9)
• So, perhaps, having satiated her revenge, she might now be inclined for peace, on the terms of distant civility. (10)
• The laws against bribery, made by themselves, are set at naught and those of civility and good breeding are forgotten. (7)
• Charles heard it quite by chance; they have not had the civility to give me any notice, or of offering to take anything. (4)
• A look from Trevanion decided my acceptance of the proferred civility, and I seated myself in the chair beside the baron. (6)
• It was clear: Beauchamp had meant nothing beyond friendly civility: it was only her abject greediness pecking at crumbs. (10)
• Colonel Brandon must be the man; and no civility shall be wanting on my part to make him pleased with you and your family. (4)
• If we ask for nothing for helping gentlemen to stand upright on their legs, and get it, we expect civility into the bargain. (10)
• Resentment could not have been more plainly spoken than in a civility to her father, from which she was so pointedly excluded. (4)
• Except for business purposes, or to give each other the lie in a tavern brawl, they have laid aside even the civility of speech. (2)
• The wish of distinguishing her, as far as civility permitted, was very evident, though it could not often proceed beyond a look. (4)
• Mr. Collins repeated his apologies in quitting the room, and was assured with unwearying civility that they were perfectly needless. (4)
• If my lord dined at home, he had by that time established an equanimity rendering, his constant civility to Mrs. Pagnell less arduous. (10)
• They missed there the constant, sweet civility of Carlsbad, and found themselves falling flat in their endeavors for a little cordiality. (9)
• Whoever suffered inconvenience, she must suffer none, but it occupied a little time to settle the point of civility between the other two. (4)
• Elizabeth said as little to either as civility would allow, and sat down again to her work, with an eagerness which it did not often command. (4)
• Her opinion was sought as to the probable continuance of the open weather, but her answers were as short and indifferent as civility allowed. (4)
• Mr. Darcy was eyeing him with unrestrained wonder, and when at last Mr. Collins allowed him time to speak, replied with an air of distant civility. (4)

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