How to Use civic in a Sentence

civic

adjective
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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
  • More than 100 members of the civic group were in the audience.
    — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2024
  • But the Stein-Miller home is more than a tool for civic engagement.
    — Maria L. La Ganga, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The civic center opened Tuesday at noon and will close at 7 p.m.
    — Orlando Sentinel, 28 Sep. 2022
  • And that's the one piece of our civic culture that is now being attacked.
    — William Turton, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Nuccio, who long has been active in civic life, said the threat was a first.
    — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The mission of the Times isn’t profit alone but civic duty.
    — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The best response to this isn’t to give up on civic engagement—it’s to increase it.
    — Emma Marris, The New Republic, 19 July 2022
  • Most of the 350 rental units planned for the site, which would also add retail and civic space, would be even more expensive.
    — Desiree Stennett, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Cincinnati didn't make the cut to be one of the 2026 World Cup host cities, dashing the hopes of civic leaders who wanted to show Cincinnati off to the world.
    — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 16 June 2022
  • Why not a civic makeover, one about, oh, several decades overdue?
    — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
  • TurnUp is on a mission to inspire each to take civic action.
    — Shannon Farley, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Sports is used as the vehicle to teach kids law, civic engagement, and ways to promote change.
    — Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Jung, 28, was there to talk about the role of local government and civic engagement.
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2024
  • Also like many of Wright’s larger structures, the doghouse roof leaks, per the civic center.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2022
  • For a big-city civic museum, the Carnegie in Pittsburgh is an idiosyncratic place.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Alma Powell, civic leader and widow to the late Colin Powell, has died at the age of 86.
    — Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 30 July 2024
  • Maybe this seems like a hollow threat to inspire action from civic leaders.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
  • From local civic fisticuffs to mass school shootings, most of us have an internal voice that says stop.
    — WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Their lives were turned upside down for doing their civic duty.
    — Charlie Dent, CNN, 21 June 2022
  • Brazilian civic institutions held the line and that outcome did not come to pass.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023
  • In the Cincinnati of my childhood, baseball was a civic religion.
    — Brandon Harris, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Five candidates turned up in the last hour from 11 a.m. to noon touting civic duty as the main draw to entering their races.
    — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The civic center itself is the largest building ever designed by Wright.
    — CNN, 3 July 2022
  • No To Coal consortium, a group of environmental and civic organizations that have teamed up to raise awareness about the current state and future of Naperville’s electric supply.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The notion of the spirit living on can feel clichéd, but Roemer’s stirring vision of the civic power of faith renews it and celebrates an everyday, secular form of immortality.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2025

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