Sentence examples for be civilized from inspiring English sources

How can you expect us to be civilized and behave like normal human beings after your governments were paying the extremists and Islamists to burn down schools, and kill teachers, school kids and government employees in the 1980s.

The answer to the nagging conundrum of how a civilized country like Germany could produce the Holocaust is that Germany ceased to be civilized from the moment Hitler came to cower.

Can't we be civilized?

It would be civilized.

It is to be civilized.

And could the naughty, randy voles be civilized?

Surely he could see her problem and wished to be civilized?

"We would go in and teach them how to be civilized, how to live in peace".