Sentences with civil
civ·il
C c - civil rights
- civil strife
- SAME-SEX couples in Canberra have lost a legal battle for civil unions.
- How the ASIO bill ravages your civil rights.
- civil rights
- civil service, civil war
- Us basketball star Kobe Bryant, his criminal charge of raping a young woman dismissed, faces what could be a nasty civil lawsuit.
- The Queensland government will defend civil action brought by the family of Mulrunji Doomadgee, who died in police custody on Palm Island.
- civil marriage
- A civil year
- Civil implies merely a refraining from rudeness [keep a civil tongue in your head]; polite suggests a more positive observance of etiquette in social behavior [it is not polite to interrupt]; courteous suggests a still more positive and sincere consideration of others that springs from an inherent thoughtfulness [always courteous to strangers]; chivalrous implies disinterested devotion to the cause of the weak, esp. to helping women [quite chivalrous in her defense]; gallant suggests a dashing display of courtesy, esp. to women [her gallant lover]
- ...civil unrest.
- ...the U.S. civil aviation industry.
- They were married on August 9 in a civil ceremony in Venice.
- ...a United Nations covenant on civil and political rights.
- As visitors, the least we can do is be civil to the people in their own land. [+ to]
- civil life; civil society.
- civil affairs.
- civil liberty.
- A civil duty.
- civil peoples.
- After their disagreement, their relations were civil though not cordial.
- He was a very civil sort, and we liked him immediately.
- The civil year.
- She went into civil service because she wanted to help the people.
- It was very civil of him to stop the argument.