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Example sentences for "civilized"

Lexicographically close words:
civility; civilization; civilizational; civilizations; civilize; civilizer; civilizers; civilizing; civill; civiller
  1. Sidenote: The dissimulation of the duke of Clarence.

  2. But by the report of some it seemeth that he was not slaine in the heat of the conflict, among the rout of the fighting men, but afterwards in this sort.

  3. L'Encuerado was obliged to content himself with some muddy water for making our coffee; but if we had pretended to preserve all the prejudices of civilized life, adieu to all our idea of traversing Mexico.

  4. The little colony employed themselves in collecting cochineal, which Torribio carried to Puebla for sale, and this fact accounted for his more civilized costume.

  5. I was so overjoyed that I sat in a corner and did not utter a word until I landed on British soil, then I prayed silently and thanked God for bringing me back to a civilized country.

  6. Safe conducts during the heat of battle, even with civilized European peoples, are, however, not such easy things either to grant or to carry out.

  7. Tobacco now proceeded to become a curse to the civilized world.

  8. I consider the American people a highly civilized and intelligent nation, a nation investigating truth and reality.

  9. From the abyss of bereavement and slavery they were uplifted to the highest plane of progress and civilized nationhood.

  10. Here the people have been civilized and uplifted; there they are in the utmost and abject state of savagery.

  11. He civilized them, raised them to a higher plane of existence until they were enabled to establish a national sovereignty, the great kingdom of Solomon.

  12. Whether out of these wild and savage materials there lay anywhere, at any time, the human or divine power to mould a civilized community, does not appear upon the record.

  13. In accordance with the above axiom, savage and half-civilized races are found to be at the present day black haired and black eyed.

  14. At the first appearance of Christianity it comprised all the wisdom, literature, art, and political power of the civilized world, and led all into the field against the weaponless religion of the crucified Nazarene.

  15. All men, whether, civilized or savage, honorable, or otherwise, detest and scorn a traitor!

  16. The chief welcomed me to his house in a style which would do no discredit to a more civilized person.

  17. Under the conditions and customs which pertain to civilized life, how great the contrast!

  18. If it be asked how it would be with men of more civilized habits, we are unfortunately obliged to confess that there are no statistics whatever on the subject which can give us any exact and trustworthy information.

  19. Such enactments ought to exist in the schools of all civilized countries, and I have no doubt the time will come when they will.

  20. Every individual was bound together in one great intellectual unity with his contemporaries, and every nation with other civilized nations.

  21. Brazil has a territory nearly equal to the United States, but it is in the tropics, and it may be generations before the vast regions in Brazil are opened up to civilized life.

  22. In the cities when the large schools are, and where there are fair public schools--where there is constant contact with civilized life, many of the colored people live well.

  23. And what is America going to do with him and for him, has been a question which has interested the whole civilized world.

  24. With the dawn of Christianity comes the first effort toward civilized ways.

  25. A dash of conventionalism makes the whole civilized world kin, ye know.

  26. My traders, as you call them, are the soundest foundation for a civilized state that the world has yet seen.

  27. The sweetness of a love-speech would not have been sweeter to her than this proof of civilized chivalry in Nevil.

  28. Beauchamp drew on their word 'solidaire' to assist him in declaring that no civilized nation could be thus independent.

  29. If India is to be held for the good of India, throw open India to the civilized nations, that they help us in a task that overstrains us.

  30. It aroused much interest in the subject, not only in Canada, but throughout the civilized world.

  31. The principal difference is that Albert Perfection is a civilized genius, while Lensky, even at the height of his achievements, was nothing but a genial barbarian.

  32. They are the antithesis of the highly civilized types used by so many of the painters today.

  33. It virtually consisted of the whole civilized world.

  34. Letters from the civilized world tended to keep alive the general sympathies, which none more appreciate than those who are shut out from its circles.

  35. When it is considered what a small population of civilized beings inhabit that part of the world, it is not to be wondered at that so little knowledge about it exists.

  36. We are shut out from the civilized world, and thrown entirely on our own resources.

  37. A child who is taught to read and write is armed with two requisites for entering civilized life.

  38. Just as those outfitted with good eyes must find Hearn's world too formless and too magnificently coloured, so normal civilized persons will find it altogether too sexually and sensually charged.

  39. Again, Mr. Hearn's sentence declares that ancestor-worship is 'the foundation of all civilized society.

  40. The real religion of Japan, the religion still professed in one form or another by the entire nation, is that cult which has been the foundation of all civilized religion and of all civilized society--ancestor-worship.

  41. So violent, indeed, have they become to our refined civilized sense, that in apparel or decoration three of them, at least, are condemned when offered pure.

  42. Would I had been born savage; the curse of civilized cities is upon me.

  43. If one must draw a sharp boundary between them, it has to be drawn between the most highly developed and civilized man on the one hand, and the rudest savages on the other, and the latter have to be classed with the animals.

  44. It is the first time, I think, in the history of civilized legislation, that a judicial officer has been held up and subjected to a criminal punishment for that which may have been a conscientious discharge of his duty.

  45. But for our own sake as well as for theirs, I would not visit upon them a policy of confiscation which has been discarded in the policy and practical conduct of every civilized nation on the face of the globe.

  46. It is, I say, the first case that I know of, in the legislation of modern and civilized nations, where a bill of indictment is to take the place of a writ of error, and where a mistake is to be tortured into a crime.

  47. Perhaps one of the best ideas of the gulf of difference between the semi-civilized and the quite primal man is given by A.

  48. There is much to show that among quite primitive peoples there is less of shrinking from death and more of certainty about a continued life after death than we generally find among more intellectual and civilized folk.

  49. The sense of an absolute psychical distinction between man and beast, so prevalent in the civilized world, is hardly to be found among the lower races.

  50. Native May-pole dances and Jacks in the Green have hardly yet died out--even in this most civilized England.

  51. Every Sunday the pastors taught in the churches love of one’s neighbor, respect for the property of others, and similar virtues essential to a civilized society; a certain travelling lecturer read a dissertation “On the rights of nations.

  52. Nor has this making of myths to account for remarkable appearances yet ceased, even in civilized countries.

  53. These epithets can hardly be classed with civilized weapons.

  54. On the universality of this belief, on the surviving use of stone implements even into civilized times, and on their manufacture to-day, see ibid.

  55. In its recent dealings with modern astronomy the wisdom of the Catholic Church in the more civilized countries has prevented its yielding to some astounding errors into which one part of the Protestant Church has fallen heedlessly.

  56. As to the older errors, the whole civilized world was at fault, Protestant as well as Catholic.

  57. The recent history of sanitation in all civilized countries shows triumphs which might well fill us with wonder, did there not rise within us a far greater wonder that they were so long delayed.

  58. Interesting is it to note here that this was Halley's comet, and that Halley was at this very moment making those scientific studies upon it which were to free the civilized world forever from such terrors as distressed Thoresby.

  59. The fortunes of war threw them into the hands of their enemies, and they were treated as no civilized nation ever treated prisoners before.

  60. These extracts from the above mentioned report are taken from “Andersonville,” a book which I wish every civilized person in the world could read.

  61. By his fame and his genius he belongs to the civilized world; by his cradle to Alcala de Henares.

  62. But after a while, when the whole civilized world had trans-lated and knew the Quixote by heart, the Spaniards began to be proud of the genius they had neglected and despised.

  63. A society that enjoys a holiday so thoroughly has something in it better than the blase cynicism of more civilized capitals.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civilized" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abstruse; advanced; beautified; bettered; bland; civil; civilized; comely; converted; courteous; courtly; cultivated; cultured; dainty; decorous; deep; delicate; developed; discriminating; educated; elegant; embellished; encyclopedic; enhanced; enlightened; erudite; fastidious; fine; graceful; gracious; improved; learned; lettered; literate; nice; orderly; perfected; polished; profound; refined; reformed; scholarly; scholastic; smooth; sophisticated; steady; studious; suave; subtle; transformed; urbane; wise


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    civilized communities; civilized community; civilized countries; civilized life; civilized nations; civilized people; civilized peoples; civilized society; civilized warfare