pleasantries
Example Sentences
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Wiener said she had known Pretti for around five years and would exchange pleasantries with him over the fence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 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
The interview is utterly anodyne, a doddering exchange of pleasantries and carefully selected humanizing anecdotes.
From Slate • Dec. 18, 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
They shook hands, exchanged pleasantries, and Mother followed him to a doorway with a security camera.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
