"Formality" Example Sentences
1. We kept the funeral to a minimum of formality and expense.
2. He greeted us with great warmth and simplicity, eschewing any formality.
3. They conducted the meeting with customary formality and decorum.
4. The queen stood up and everyone rose with her out of formality.
5. They waived all formalities and led us straight to their VIP lounge.
6. At a reception, they waved away protocol and any formality.
7. The lecturer abandoned the usual formality and chatted freely.
8. I addressed him with the proper formality befitting his title.
9. He greeted me with customary formality and reserve.
10. We avoided excessive formality and dressed casually.
11. The meeting began with a certain degree of formality and stiffness.
12. The prince demanded the utmost formality and deference.
13. The lecture began with customary academic formality.
14. She spoke to him with courteous but impersonal formality.
15. I conducted the telephone interview with professional formality.
16. The chief executive insisted on strict observation of corporate formality.
17. The committee conducted its proceedings with scrupulous formality.
18. In a familiar setting, he dropped all formality and spoke casually.
19. There were few formalities at the relaxed country breakfast.
20. The ceremony began with the usual solemn formality.
21. The business meeting had an air of exaggerated formality.
22. We opted for an informal ceremony with a minimum of formality.
23. At Christmas, they dropped all formality and treated us like family.
24. She greeted me with cordiality but maintained a certain formality.
25. The form letter followed standard corporate formality.
26. He addressed us with the curt formality of a superior.
27. I was struck by the formality and stiffness of his manner.
28. He spoke to us with cold correctness and studied formality.
29. There was an awkward formality to their first meeting after the separation.
30. She greeted him with the distant but polite formality of an acquaintance.
31. His habitual formality softened in the familiar surroundings.
32. The customary formality and ceremony were dispensed with.
33. The majordomo maintained the proper formality befitting his office.
34. The wedding rehearsal proceeded with proper formality and order.
35. I greeted him with distant but polite formality.
36. She spoke to him with the studied formality of a business associate.
37. The choreographed proceedings had a certain forced formality.
38. His instructions followed the appropriate formality of a legal contract.
39. My tone maintained the courteous formality of a professional relationship.
40. The meeting conducted itself with scrupulous observance of formality.
41. He kissed her hand with the exaggerated formality of a stage actor.
42. I adopted the familiarity and warmth of informality over formality.
43. The meeting went ahead with minimal concession to formality.
44. They spoke with the studied impersonality and formality of strangers.
45. Her manners maintained an impersonal formality at all times.
46. The ceremony was conducted with full pomp and formality.
47. The interview was conducted with appropriate professional formality.
48. He spoke with the blunt directness of informality, eschewing formality.
49. He greeted me with his habitual formality and reserve.
50. The conversation maintained the studied formality of a business meeting.
51. The judge addressed the court with proper judicial formality.
52. I was struck by the casualness and lack of formality.
53. The committee insisted on full observance of formality and procedure.
54. The meeting was conducted with minimum ceremony and formality.
55. There was stiffness and formality in their first post-divorce meeting.
56. She greeted me with her habitual warmth and informality.
57. In familiar surroundings, he dropped his habitual formality.
58. She greeted me with the distant politeness and formality of a stranger.
59. They dispensed with all formalities and proceeded straight to drinks.
60. The business meeting began with carefully observed professional formality.
Common Phases
1. With all due
formality
2. Without further
formality
3. Maintain a certain
formality
4. Keep things informal over
formality
5. Observe proper
formality
6. Dispense with formalities
7. Waive the formalities
8. Dropped all
formality
9. Conducted with customary
formality
10. Eschewed any
formality
11. Maintained polite
formality
12. Observed the appropriate
formality
13. Insisted on strict
formality
14. Eschewing
formality
15.
Formality and decorum