civilization
Example Sentences
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That leads to the breakdown of civilization, a state where only the law of the jungle remains.”
Her anger and zeal, Theroux said, stemmed from the Scientology doctrine that “the future of humanity and civilization” is in the hands of its believers.
From Salon
To say that our picture of the Mayan civilization—an interlocking network of kingdoms occupying the Yucatán Peninsula and swaths of present-day Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador from roughly 1000 B.C. to A.D.
He begins with a chapter on “The Earth in Space and Time,” and 200 pages later delves into Mesopotamian civilization.
“City” is meant to outlast civilization, like the sandworms of “Dune.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
