civilization
Example Sentences
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“City” is meant to outlast civilization, like the sandworms of “Dune.”
The Inca civilization, based high in the Andes, built the largest Indigenous empire in the Americas before European arrival.
From Science Daily
It is the return of a recurring but never-banished nightmare about one civilization attacking another, driven by blind hatred.
From Salon
Plan Kukulkan, named after the serpent deity of the Mayan civilization, covers the host cities as well as nearby tourist destinations.
From Barron's
Like becoming a true human—a human before we became cluttered by civilization.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
