How to Use sociability in a Sentence

sociability

noun

• Sit-on-top kayaking is made for sociability, so take a look as well at the Ocean Kayak Malibu 2 ($890).
  — Doug Gantenbein, Outside Online, 22 June 2012
• Dance, singing and sociability were in the mix now, along with boating, swimming and nature study.
  — Hartford Courant, 13 June 2022
• Ingress players stress both the sociability and active lifestyle of the game.
  — David Kushner, Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2019
• Fortunately, the sociability of the Mews’ layout helps make up for the largely blank ground floors.
  — Inga Saffron, Philly.com, 28 July 2017
• Instead, the appeal of Among Us lies in its sociability.
  — Adam Epstein, Quartz, 1 Oct. 2020
• In the second test, for sociability, Aliperti slid out a trap wall, revealing a mirror in the arena.
  — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2021
• The American front porch has long been a symbol of relaxation, sociability and watching the world go by.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2019
• Janesville became a union town known for a climate of fair-minded sociability.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 19 May 2017
• An atmospheric shift toward sociability could roll in like a wave on the beach.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 11 Dec. 2020
• Behind this nervous sociability was the boys’ awareness of a grand new terrain spread out before them.
  — Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• Els is one of the more genial players in professional golf, and in the year-and-a-half leading up to the competition, his sociability has rubbed off on his players.
  — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2019
• Coffeehouses, to the king and his supporters, represented a new form of sociability that rose up in the years when England had no king, and should be stamped out.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 2 Oct. 2017
• Whereas most of them were classic techies, with patchy facial hair and ill-fitting clothes, the clean-cut Mr. Hearn had a taste for fashionable jeans and skateboard shoes — as well as an easy sociability.
  — Nathaniel Popper, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2016
• Oxytocin has been shown to help with overall sociability, too.
  — Ana Faguy, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• One thing pit bulls did score high on was human sociability, no surprise to anyone who has seen internet videos of lap-loving pit bulls.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• Sayigh believes that factors such as sociability play a role.
  — Holly Barker, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2022
• However, the trait that appeared to be the biggest factor of survival was sociability.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2021
• The increase is in part because new standards say zoos are supposed to have herds of at least three elephants because of the animals’ inherent sociability.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 18 July 2019
• The players exhibit, of all things, a kind of online well-being—sociability and outdoorsiness, amusement and irony.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 22 Sep. 2020
• Of course, there are other factors that explain the islanders’ longevity, like sociability.
  — National Geographic, 6 Aug. 2017
• For this project, the researchers asked the owners more than 100 questions relating to everything from a dog’s physical size and color to its sociability and lifestyle.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2022
• Her career was supported, in part, by a public persona of sociability and Irish romance.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• For one thing, Gregory says, its role in sociability is not straightforward.
  — Florence Williams, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2013
• But the illicit party drug also has a potent effect on sociability, making users feel more connected to the people around them.
  — Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2019
• But looking over all the places where longevity is more common, sociability is a telling characteristic.
  — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2010
• My husband, usually an introvert with a cynical streak, turned on his heel, moved by the beauty of nature into a moment of earnest sociability.
  — Lila Battis, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2021
• There’s no reason students should have to choose between sociability and clatter, not to mention daylight over denim ads, even when their teachers command a space where Ann Taylor and Auntie Anne once reigned supreme.
  — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 4 Mar. 2021
• After World War II, a hunger for sociability and a thirst for efficiency led to kitchens that opened to surrounding rooms, with islands holding the appliances as well as the storage space that had gone missing when walls were taken down.
  — Julie Lasky, ELLE Decor, 27 Apr. 2022
• On the human side, pension and tax systems may well see revolutions that incentivise higher fertility and city planning will, in an ideal world, start to incorporate the need for greater sociability.
  — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• Notably, camera footage captured members of this monkey species – not known for their sociability – visiting cabreúvas (Myroxylon peruiferum) trees in groups.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2022

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024