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How To Use civilise In A Sentence

• Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison. The Scarlet Letter
• The more civilised make up of canvass or "gunny bags" stuffed with hay and provided with cross bars, a rude packsaddle, which is admirably calculated to gall the animal's back. First Footsteps in East Africa
• We who live in the overcivilised world know that we have lost something. Times, Sunday Times
• This is rather sorry stuff; but then in purely rural places, untouched by that great civiliser, the railroad, a little wit goes a great way, as we may see by the following story told in Pasquil's "Jests," 1604. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
• The paragraph holds luminously good still for either Bobby – Jones or Moore:What we talk about here is not the hero as sportsman, but that something which a civilised community hungered for and found: the best performer in the world who was also hero as human being, the gentle, wholly self-sufficient male. My dream job as Bobby Moore's minder for a fortnight | Frank Keating
• Animals civilise a building, and it is a pity that Mrs Blair, no cat-lover, was blamed for the dismissal of Humphrey, a dignified and sagacious mouser.
• But what we do now know is that there endures, in many apparently civilised quarters, a simmering rage of misogyny and mistrust. Times, Sunday Times
• Nathreee's Thoughts - dreams about wild animals in civilised surroundings Dreams about wild animals in civilised surroundings
• It also opens a wider question as to whether civilised societies could so quickly revert to primitive behaviour.
• It could no longer be represented by such straightforward dualities as European versus native, or civilised versus wild.