How to Use amity in a Sentence

amity

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  • The belt depicts two figures holding hands, showing the amity between Penn and the Lenapes.
    — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2021
  • See More About Amity: Going for state record fifth straight title.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 9 June 2017
  • Such shows of cross-party amity in Washington have grown rare.
    — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Such amity is only a lull, however, as these two groups work out the terms of a new relationship.
    — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2020
  • For others, Baskerville’s name remains a potent symbol of the amity that once subsisted between the U.S. and Iran — and that could yet be revived one day.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2021
  • He’s one of the few people in any walk of life to have a deep, long-lasting amity with Russell, who guards his privacy and is fiercely dismissive of the social whirl.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The American-Russian amity that underpinned their work has gone.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • It should not be muted or muffled by false amity or forgotten for the sake of unachievable harmony.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2021
  • In an equally surprising step, the White House torched Manchin afterward in a statement bristling with resentment that shattered the amity Biden had sought to cultivate.
    — Kevin Liptak, Phil Mattingly and Kaitlan Collins, CNN, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Despite Trump and Macron's embarrassing performance of amity, Macron shifted tone later in the week.
    — Beatrice Dupuy, Teen Vogue, 26 Apr. 2018
  • But the racial amity that was his fondest hope remained a distant dream, and his lapses in responding to the Crown Heights crisis became an insurmountable legacy.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The retired justice believes Oaks was addressing such people, while also issuing a call to those on all sides of these issues to seek compromise and amity.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 June 2021
  • Myles calls on three A’s to help leaders think about belonging: alignment, appreciation, and amity.
    — Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • But any amity Hernandez built up with the gang all but collapsed after three days detailing robberies, assaults and drug crimes for a federal jury.
    — Deanna Paul, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2019
  • More profound is the widespread amity and prosperity that have resulted.
    — Jeffrey A. Engel, Twin Cities, 6 June 2019
  • Amis has been called a bad boy for decades now, but so few who’ve written about him, whether in amity or discord, have bothered to notice the overriding imperative of his art: to be circumspect, to be generous, to be good-humored, to be kind.
    — Tom Bissell, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2020
  • But by then amity, bipartisanship and eco-consciousness had met their limits.
    — Michael Dresser, baltimoresun.com, 5 May 2017
  • Xi’s first in person with a world leader in nearly two years — is expected to be yet another public display of geopolitical amity between the two powers.
    — Edward Wong, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Trump gambled that the show of amity could crack the nuclear logjam, underscoring his faith in the power of his own personal diplomacy — even with brutal strongmen like Kim — to achieve what past presidents could not.
    — Michael Crowley, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2019
  • This simple act, motivated by compassion and amity, often leads to disaster and heartache.
    — James Berman, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The Lousy Linguist is skeptical of my contention that very high linguistic diversity is not conducive to economic growth or social amity.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2010
  • Various theories have been adduced for this gesture: genuine amity, a vestige of courtliness, too much lunch, or the possibility that the President is afraid of stairs.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2017
  • The glamorization of modernism owed much to the aura of Allied triumph in the Second World War, which established so many other parameters of national amity that have lately, and rapidly, been crumbling.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
  • So what Biden intends as a plea for political amity is actually an act of political cowardice.
    — Leonard Pitts Jr - Miami Herald, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • My aunt told her to ask our grandmother, another collector, who told my exasperated cousin that for the sake of spiritual amity, she was allowed to dispose of the statue only in a rushing river.
    — Clio Chang, New York Times, 6 July 2021
  • The Senate Intelligence Committee has managed to maintain more amity between members.
    — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The Cold War experience, in fact, suggests that a working relationship with an authoritarian Russia didn’t evolve from amity or personal chemistry among leaders.
    — Aleksandar Matovski, Washington Post, 16 May 2017
  • Canadian officials are optimistic that Biden will usher in a period of greater personal amity and cooperation.
    — Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2021
  • In the novel’s Hughesian sonic atmosphere and in its Hurstonian intimacy, the amity and enmity, among Morrison’s characters.
    — Adam Bradley, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Ellison’s reformist tendencies have, amid so much amity, quietly receded.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017

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