pleasantries
Example Sentences
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The Dodgers’ newest star arrived Sunday and was in the Dodgers’ dugout during the game, exchanging pleasantries with his new teammates and coaches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Together for the better part of four decades, L7 did not faff around with small talk and pleasantries: They took the stage and rocked your face off.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Whatever Tuchel said, and it was unlikely to have been pleasantries, was the catalyst for an outstanding attacking display which saw Jude Bellingham restore England's lead moments after half-time.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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
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
