Sentence for formality | Use formality in a sentence

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

• He retorted with a solemn formality. (10)
• Its curt formality gave her satisfaction. (8)
• He mocked her in the formality of his address. (9)
• The formality of the request incensed Victor. (10)
• At the front are precision, formality, fixity, and silence. (1)
• You had better defer too much formality for the sake of safety. (18)
• The artillerist saluted slowly, gravely, and with extreme formality. (1)
• Amidst all the hum of voices and the fumes of smoke, a sense of formality was haunting Shelton. (8)
• The sleeper seemed so apart from everything there, from all the formality and stiffness of the ward. (8)
• I think that even then I had an instinctive doubt whether formlessness was really better than formality. (9)
• Society having rendered its verdict, there remained between Gilson and eternity only the decent formality of a trial. (1)
• Mrs. Ferrars was a little, thin woman, upright, even to formality, in her figure, and serious, even to sourness, in her aspect. (4)
• Something, it seems to me, may be contained and kept alive in formality, but in formlessness everything spills and wastes away. (9)
• That is, for the length of five minutes; about the space of time I should require for the formality of handing her back her freedom. (10)
• Algernon remonstrated against so needless a formality; but Anthony put the startling supposition to him, that he might die that night. (10)
• Algernon remonstrated against so needless a formality; but Anthony put the startling supposition to him, that he might die that night. (22)
• The respectful formality of the posture imperfectly concealed the irony of the question, but I was not of the kind to be easily silenced. (7)

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