pleasantries

Example Sentences

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He could order in French and exchange pleasantries with an elderly French waiter who seemed to live there.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Groups of passersby stopped outside the city’s La Carlota air base—one of the sites targeted in Saturday’s military incursion —to take photos, exchanging pleasantries as they snapped photos of the bombed site.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

They exchanged pleasantries with Mrs. Sutherland, she departed, and the men got straight down to business.

From Slate • Dec. 1, 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

Within moments of his arrival, he finds himself with a glass of sparkling wine in hand, exchanging pleasantries with a former prima ballerina.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern