How to Use civic in a Sentence

civic

adjective
Definition of civicnext
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  • Recent improvements to the downtown area are a point of civic pride.
  • Voting is your civic duty.
  • One of your passions right now is the O’Connor House project, a space used to host civic groups.
    — Tim Dillon, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Serving the state in which Druze live is both a civic duty and a tenet of their faith.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But the Stein-Miller home is more than a tool for civic engagement.
    — Maria L. La Ganga, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • And that's the one piece of our civic culture that is now being attacked.
    — William Turton, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Why not a civic makeover, one about, oh, several decades overdue?
    — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
  • For a big-city civic museum, the Carnegie in Pittsburgh is an idiosyncratic place.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Maybe this seems like a hollow threat to inspire action from civic leaders.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
  • But in recent months the concept — if not the sites — gained traction, with endorsements from dozens of civic leaders.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2023
  • Pardons can reinstate some civic rights including the right to own a firearm or serve on a jury.
    — Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • All of that has sent the group looking more aggressively to the suburbs, which wouldn’t serve the civic charge to help Portland heal from the scars left by the pandemic and the summer of 2020.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The day began with a luncheon where Metro met with the city’s civic leaders and ended with the Leslie Joanne Soirée, a gala honoring 250 of the city’s single mothers.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2023
  • That’s a big reason the bridge remains our great civic symbol of hope and of possibility.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 24 May 2023
  • The City of Cannes and regional authorities went ahead with this ban across most of Cannes to prevent civic unrest.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 13 May 2023
  • All of this raised the level of concern among civic leaders in the city, who issued calls for protesters to remain peaceful.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
  • Aleyda Martinez Novotny, who sits on the board of the local civic association, owns a home four blocks from the soup kitchen.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The effort was led by business, civic, and philanthropic leaders.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Sports teams can often serve as a symbol of nationalism, or civic pride.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
  • In the face of such widespread injury, the Kyiv government has turned to Ukraine’s now-famous civic tech infrastructure for help.
    — Peter Guest, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Italians came to regard him as an embodiment of civic virtue.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Their dedication strengthens the social and civic fabric of our city.
    — Yan Zhao, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2024
  • By contrast, in Tijuana, the cityscape is a jumble that grew with minimal civic planning.
    — Dirk Sutro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2023
  • That sort of civic feeling is what The Tokyo Toilet folks told us the project was created to inspire — and that really left an impression on me.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Reindl would have to get a building permit within a year of substantial completion of the civic plaza, and finish within two years of the issuance of the permit.
    — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Since the second coup when Capt. Ibrahim Traore seized power in September, civic freedoms have shrunk, say rights groups and residents.
    — Sam Mednick, ajc, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Many Egyptians outside polling sites last week described voting as a civic duty.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023
  • His critics disputed the notion that he was motivated by an idea of civic good.
    — Noreen Malone, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • Every Tuesday, in Seidler’s office, businessmen and civic leaders meet to talk about what to do: what to do about this great problem.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 May 2023
  • Black churches teach Black history, civil rights The church has long served as the hub of civic engagement in Black communities.
    — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023

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