How to Use comity in a Sentence

comity

noun

• And the comity that once pervaded Google’s workforce was frayed.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2023
• But today, the scene is very different, and the prospects of such comity are grim.
  — Jonathan Stevenson, The New York Review of Books, 13 Oct. 2021
• The moment of comity with teachers didn’t last, though.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• And like the Senate where Breyer used to work, the court now has less room for compromise and comity.
  — Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
• The trouble is that there’s no way to deal with the climate crisis that keeps the kind of elite comity Biden strives for intact.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 18 Nov. 2020
• The idea of comity amongst nations has been a decades-long tradition.
  — Quartz, 30 Nov. 2022
• Still, for all of Biden's attempts to put forward a show of comity, there were limits on what the leaders could agree to in the end.
  — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 13 June 2021
• The answers provoked appear to end the comedy, if not the town’s comity, too, once and for all.
  — Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2017
• None of us have served one minute in the Senate that was completely drained of comity and consent.
  — Mitch McConnell, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2021
• Right, forget all those niceties about decorum and comity and Robert’s Rules of Order.
  — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2021
• The era of growing trade comity, and free and unfettered trade with rivals, is looking more like a fad and less like the end point of a trend.
  — Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
• Even so, despite all the talk of comity and common ground, the White House came back with its bottom line after all had gone home.
  — New York Times, 1 Feb. 2021
• The tolerance and comity learned from those friendships can last a lifetime.
  — N. Gregory Mankiw, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• Once comity prevails, the co-counsels are co-equals in friendship and respect.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
• Whether the hours of comity will turn into a lasting peace is still an open question — but that didn’t make those hours any less historic.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 27 Apr. 2018
• That isn't to say the 2000 election was a golden moment of national comity.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2020
• Progressive Democrats have sniffed that his nostalgia for a long-ago era of comity is naive.
  — Doyle McManus Los Angeles Times (tns), Star Tribune, 4 Nov. 2020
• Prone to endless laments of the lack of comity in Congress, the D.C. press corps applauded the display of unity in Washington.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2020
• In the film, their newfound comity is attributed to the maturity that comes with age.
  — Vulture, 3 Aug. 2022
• Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace.
  — H. R. McMaster, National Review, 12 June 2021
• Like the crystalline, fiber-optic sculpture at its portal, the vault is a beacon of optimism and comity in a world that may seem cold and dark.
  — Adrian Higgins, idahostatesman, 28 Feb. 2018
• Despite the otherwise testy tone, one moment of comity rose through.
  — Time, 8 Feb. 2020
• Now, Novichok agents are shaping up as a potential area of comity.
  — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 23 Oct. 2019
• Sometimes the maintenance of civic comity requires a touch of restraint.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 13 May 2022
• In an era when bipartisan comity is rare on Capitol Hill, agreement between the two sides is a very big deal.
  — Kris Brown, CNN, 14 June 2022
• How to convince them that comity is preferable to repression, and that a belief in magic is better than faith?
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2023
• For one thing, comity serves all, where being competitive and quick to take umbrage wins you nothing but stress.
  — Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 3 June 2017
• But there are real questions of whether those old days of comity and compromise are gone forever.
  — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2020
• Right now, just when people could use emblems of patience, grit, calm and comity, the culture has endured a steady stream of loss that adds to the sense that everything is crumbling to bits.
  — Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2021
• An image of democratic dysfunction—the ripping off of the façade of comity and efficiency to reveal the chaotic impulses underneath.
  — TIME, 9 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024