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

After some pleasantries, I explained that I couldn’t help with her moving boxes because I was about to conduct a highly sensitive business transaction.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

In series two, we see how Lumon's disorientating, unforgiving corporate culture and its deceptive pleasantries affects those with power too.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 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