How to Use civilization in a Sentence

civilization

noun

• We are studying ancient Greek civilization.
• Slowly, the trail widened with signs of civilization: hoed rows of plantings, waxy horses.
  — Kayla Aletha Welch, Longreads, 19 Nov. 2024
• Some pundits are simply perma-bears that moan and groan about how the market will collapse taking you and civilization with it.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• These are conditions that human civilization has never known.
  — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022
• In part because of that cooling, large-scale farming became more difficult, and these large civilizations struggled to feed their people.
  — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 21 Nov. 2024
• The mythic hero’s putrid wound drives people from him, but their need for his gift, in order to win a war and save their civilization, forces an uneasy reconciliation.
  — Jarrett Earnest, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022
• Thankfully, the likelihood of a malicious alien civilization is vanishingly small, a scientist has found.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2022
• Sun and rain and bush had made the site look old, like the site of a dead civilization.
  — Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 29 Nov. 2022
• And the first signs of civilization arose from the ashes.
  — Jamie Seidel, Fox News, 31 May 2018
• Over the centuries, civilization brought leisure time and the need to fill it.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 15 Feb. 2022
• Drink wine and look at the moon and think of all the civilizations the moon has seen passing by.
  — Tom Zoellner, SPIN, 9 Apr. 2024
• This all takes place in the first draft of civilization.
  — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
• The train tracks are one of the few reminders that civilization is near.
  — Christopher Reynoldsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2022
• The art form can be traced back to some of the oldest civilizations on the planet.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• But the tests indicate the civilization used the cacao seed, not just the fruity pulp.
  — Candice Choi, The Seattle Times, 31 Oct. 2018
• The only sign of civilization is the towers and their ocean sounds.
  — Matt Allyn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2018
• The troops, at least, had a slice of civilization and each other.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 26 Nov. 2020
• And yet the world didn’t end, and civilization trudged onward.
  — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2022
• The rise of the city is looked upon as the dawn of civilization, but a deep mystery surrounds the first city-dwellers.
  — Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020
• The falling ropes of the starting gate showed that these sprints were signs of civilization.
  — Janelle Peters, The Atlantic, 26 May 2017
• This is kind of a struggle for the soul of Western civilizations in many ways.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2024
• At some point, the man and his dogs attempted to hike back to civilization.
  — oregonlive.com, 24 July 2019
• The book is not in fact a history of civilization in 12 clocks.
  — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
• What's at stake here could be the future of civilization.
  — Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2020
• The rest of us can only shake our heads and wonder about the future of civilization.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2022
• Pathogens have helped shape civilization, and humans have been resilient in the face of such crises.
  — Charlotte Roberts, The Conversation, 15 June 2020
• Since the dawn of civilization, humans have had only one world in which to live: the real one.
  — Sarah E. Needleman, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
• More people will be killed and the survival of our civilization is at stake.
  — ABC News, 24 July 2022
• This is, after all, the civilization that built the Taj Mahal.
  — Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 2 Apr. 2023
• The veil of civilization may be thin, but not all that lies behind it is savage.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 31 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024