pleasantries

Example Sentences

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The leaders chatted for 10 minutes, exchanging pleasantries and praising each other’s strength.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

The interview is utterly anodyne, a doddering exchange of pleasantries and carefully selected humanizing anecdotes.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025

The tone between Carney and Sheinbaum on Thursday appeared much warmer, with the two exchanging gifts and later pleasantries at a joint news conference.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2025

As years go by, more and more of our verbal interaction has taken the form of extended pleasantries.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2025

And from weatherworkers and wandering jugglers who went from town to town of the Northward Vale and the East Forest he had learned various tricks and pleasantries, spells of Illusion.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin