CIVILIZATION in a Sentence
Learn CIVILIZATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
330 example sentences for CIVILIZATION, such as:
1. American civilization differs from ours.
2. Education is the transmission of civilization.
3. Greece was the cradle of western civilization.
4. Chinese civilization is one of the oldest in the world.
5. Environmental damage threatens the whole of civilization.
2. Education is the transmission of civilization.
3. Greece was the cradle of western civilization.
4. Chinese civilization is one of the oldest in the world.
5. Environmental damage threatens the whole of civilization.
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Meanings and Examples of CIVILIZATION
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civilization
n. the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste
n. a particular society at a particular time and place
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 It set free all the unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the earth.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2 There occur formidable hours in our civilization; there are moments when the penal laws decree a shipwreck.
3 The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from European civilization.
4 The elevation of level which they contribute to civilization is intrinsic with them; it proceeds from themselves and not from an accident.
5 The monastic regime, good at the beginning of civilization, useful in the reduction of the brutal by the spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
6 Cloisters, useful in the early education of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious to its development.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
7 Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in Thibet, is a sort of phthisis for civilization.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST
8 It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.
9 All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing whatever to Grantaire.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
10 In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is but a poor expedient of civilization.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
11 There is a top and a bottom in this obscure sub-soil, which sometimes gives way beneath civilization, and which our indifference and heedlessness trample under foot.
12 At a certain depth, the excavations are no longer penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible.
13 It not only undermines, in its hideous swarming, the actual social order; it undermines philosophy, it undermines human thought, it undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines progress.
14 Each one of these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the under side of civilization.
15 The Bourbons were an instrument of civilization which broke in the hands of Providence.
Example Sentence: (120 in 9 pages)
1 Art and music are among the great products of human civilization.
2 Greece was the cradle of western civilization.
3 Liberty and civilization are only fragments of rights wrung from the strong hands of wealth and book learning.
4 Chinese civilization is one of the oldest in the world.
5 Education is the transmission of civilization.
6 Environmental damage threatens the whole of civilization.
7 Some records of ancient civilization were discovered recently.
8 The book explores the relationship between religion and civilization.
9 When they unearth the city, the archeologists find many relics of an ancient civilization.
10 It has taken an eon for our digital civilization to develop.
11 Instead of advancing, our civilization seems to retrograde in ethics and culture.
12 American civilization differs from ours.
13 It seemed glorious sport to be feasting in that wild, free way in the virgin forest of an unexplored and uninhabited island, far from the haunts of men, and they said they never would return to civilization.
14 The administration hopes to avoid another bruising battle over civil rights.
15 These ideas resurfaced again in the American civil rights movement.