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
• And that's the one piece of our civic culture that is now being attacked.
  — William Turton, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2023
• 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
• Why not a civic makeover, one about, oh, several decades overdue?
  — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Five candidates turned up in the last hour from 11 a.m. to noon touting civic duty as the main draw to entering their races.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2023
• Pardons can reinstate some civic rights including the right to own a firearm or serve on a jury.
  — Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• And increased civic engagement is even more available to the people.
  — Ernest Owens, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2023
• Will the plaza become a thriving civic spot when games or other events aren’t happening?
  — Sam Lubell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
• All of that has sent the group looking more aggressively to the suburbs, which wouldn’t serve the civic charge to help Portland heal from the scars left by the pandemic and the summer of 2020.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 14 Apr. 2023
• The day began with a luncheon where Metro met with the city’s civic leaders and ended with the Leslie Joanne Soirée, a gala honoring 250 of the city’s single mothers.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2023
• That’s a big reason the bridge remains our great civic symbol of hope and of possibility.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 24 May 2023
• Lee is on a path to even more prominent civic leadership, people who know her said.
  — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2024
• The City of Cannes and regional authorities went ahead with this ban across most of Cannes to prevent civic unrest.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 13 May 2023
• All of this raised the level of concern among civic leaders in the city, who issued calls for protesters to remain peaceful.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
• Aleyda Martinez Novotny, who sits on the board of the local civic association, owns a home four blocks from the soup kitchen.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
• The effort was led by business, civic, and philanthropic leaders.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• For All, a coalition of more than 60 labor, faith and other civic organizations.
  — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024