pleasantries

Example Sentences

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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 leaders chatted for 10 minutes, exchanging pleasantries and praising each other’s strength.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

They share coffee and pleasantries and then open proceedings; the finale of a months-long selection process.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2025

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

Everyone she knew, she had always known—except for captured ghosts, who weren’t exactly keen on pleasantries.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor