civilization

Example Sentences

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A new message of freedom and redemption, arguably the most liberating event in Western civilization for more than 1,000 years, was the result.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

The Inca civilization, based high in the Andes, built the largest Indigenous empire in the Americas before European arrival.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

It is the return of a recurring but never-banished nightmare about one civilization attacking another, driven by blind hatred.

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2026

Plan Kukulkan, named after the serpent deity of the Mayan civilization, covers the host cities as well as nearby tourist destinations.

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

Not because people here aren't slobs—I’m sure a lot of them are—but they’re so obsessively worried about their property values that they’d rather die than allow the detritus of civilization to sully their curb appeal.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman