civilization

Example Sentences

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“It’s time I stopped being so selfish. Maybe we should go back to civilization so you can have a normal life.”

From Literature

Scientists at Columbia University working with Breakthrough Listen, a research initiative focused on searching for signs of civilizations beyond Earth, have reported new findings from the Breakthrough Listen Galactic Center Survey.

From Science Daily

“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What’s grown-ups going to think?” cries Piggy, the book’s preteen standard-bearer for logic and civilization.

From The Wall Street Journal

But he rooted that criticism in the shared history and values of Western civilization.

From The Wall Street Journal

There are only so many more windows for Musk to set up a civilization on Mars in his lifetime.

From The Wall Street Journal