How to Use civic in a Sentence

civic

adjective

• Recent improvements to the downtown area are a point of civic pride.
• Voting is your civic duty.
• One of your passions right now is the O’Connor House project, a space used to host civic groups.
  — Tim Dillon, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2023
• Serving the state in which Druze live is both a civic duty and a tenet of their faith.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2024
• More than 100 members of the civic group were in the audience.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2024
• But the Stein-Miller home is more than a tool for civic engagement.
  — Maria L. La Ganga, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• The civic center opened Tuesday at noon and will close at 7 p.m.
  — Orlando Sentinel, 28 Sep. 2022
• And that's the one piece of our civic culture that is now being attacked.
  — William Turton, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2023
• Nuccio, who long has been active in civic life, said the threat was a first.
  — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2022
• The mission of the Times isn’t profit alone but civic duty.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2022
• The best response to this isn’t to give up on civic engagement—it’s to increase it.
  — Emma Marris, The New Republic, 19 July 2022
• So, Brown was left with no choice but to fulfill her civic duty, and take Parker with her to court.
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 27 Jan. 2025
• Most of the 350 rental units planned for the site, which would also add retail and civic space, would be even more expensive.
  — Desiree Stennett, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
• Cincinnati didn't make the cut to be one of the 2026 World Cup host cities, dashing the hopes of civic leaders who wanted to show Cincinnati off to the world.
  — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 16 June 2022
• The mourners came to the civic center for counseling and comfort.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 31 May 2022
• Why not a civic makeover, one about, oh, several decades overdue?
  — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
• TurnUp is on a mission to inspire each to take civic action.
  — Shannon Farley, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• Sports is used as the vehicle to teach kids law, civic engagement, and ways to promote change.
  — Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
• Jung, 28, was there to talk about the role of local government and civic engagement.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2024
• Also like many of Wright’s larger structures, the doghouse roof leaks, per the civic center.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2022
• For a big-city civic museum, the Carnegie in Pittsburgh is an idiosyncratic place.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Alma Powell, civic leader and widow to the late Colin Powell, has died at the age of 86.
  — Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 30 July 2024
• Maybe this seems like a hollow threat to inspire action from civic leaders.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
• From local civic fisticuffs to mass school shootings, most of us have an internal voice that says stop.
  — WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
• But in recent months the concept — if not the sites — gained traction, with endorsements from dozens of civic leaders.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2023
• Their lives were turned upside down for doing their civic duty.
  — Charlie Dent, CNN, 21 June 2022
• Brazilian civic institutions held the line and that outcome did not come to pass.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023
• In the Cincinnati of my childhood, baseball was a civic religion.
  — Brandon Harris, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
• For grades 6-12, the focus shifts to academic success, social and emotional learning, career skill-building, as well as arts, STEM, civic engagement, sports, entrepreneurship, and college readiness.
  — Danielle Barreras, Miami Herald, 10 Feb. 2025
• Yes, the State Fair is still months away, but an upcoming exhibition is seeking Fair-style art using seeds and other natural materials to highlight justice and civic engagement.
  — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 6 Mar 2025