Sentence examples for bit of civilization from inspiring English sources

You crumbled a bit of civilization off there yourself.

When a piece of furniture is needed for a scene, the actors pluck it from the pile and set it down in place, a striking metaphor for snatching a bit of civilization and comfort from the aftermath of disaster.

When I was in college in Perth, it was a city that had less than a million people in it the most isolated city on Earth, a five hour drive to any other bit of civilization.

When I was in college in Perth, it was a city that had fewer than a million people in it the most isolated city on Earth, a five-hour drive to any other bit of civilization.

Here in Dhahir, the looting is evident in the shattered bits of civilization — pieces of pottery, glass and carved stone — strewn across an expanse of desert that was once a Sumerian trading town known as Dubrum.

Without a bit of corruption, civilization cannot survive.

The soil beneath Lower Manhattan teems with bits of past civilizations, but they are generally the most workaday sorts of fragments.

Modern people, he wrote, are "vacillating, disintegrated, a blend of old and new.... My souls (characters) are conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul".

A bit of prep before leaving civilization will pay great dividends.

And what is all this symbolism telling us about the beginnings of civilization?" If it sounds a bit like detective work, it is.

We was out of civilization.