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The commander of the militia was a civilian general, an old man who was evidently pleased with his military designation and rank.

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 Meanings and Examples of CIVILIAN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
civilian
 a.  of or relating to nonmilitary life
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  Meanwhile, Samosvitov's feats in the military sphere were being rivalled by the wonders worked by Chichikov's lawyer in the civilian field of action.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
2  One of them was a sallow, clean-shaven civilian with a thin and wrinkled face, already growing old, though he was dressed like a most fashionable young man.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII
3  That same day, Rostov, profiting by the darkness to avoid being recognized in civilian dress, came to Tilsit and went to the lodging occupied by Boris and Zhilinski.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIX
4  In his civilian clothes and a round hat, he wandered about the town, staring at the French and their uniforms and at the streets and houses where the Russian and French Emperors were staying.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XX
5  There he found so many people, among them officers who, like himself, had come in civilian clothes, that he had difficulty in getting a dinner.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XXI
6  Prince Andrew, greatly changed and plainly in better health, but with a fresh horizontal wrinkle between his brows, stood in civilian dress facing his father and Prince Meshcherski, warmly disputing and vigorously gesticulating.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI
7  While waiting in the reception room Pierre with weary eyes watched the various officials, old and young, military and civilian, who were there.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER X
8  The commander of the militia was a civilian general, an old man who was evidently pleased with his military designation and rank.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IV
9  The civilian population had either to do without or buy at the speculators' prices, and the poor and those in moderate circumstances were suffering increasing hardships.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  To make matters worse, a vague distrust of those in high places had begun to creep over the civilian population.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  The reason he had applied for transfer to the front, despite his useless arm, was that he realized, as the civilian population did not, the seriousness of the situation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  The commandants of the Yankee troops in the various cities had complete power, even the power of life and death, over the civilian population, and they used that power.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
13  His appearance, changed by his civilian dress, was as fascinating to her as though she were some young girl in love.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 8
14  Everyone, soldiers, civilians, women, children and negroes, began to wear homespun.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
15  Already soldiers and civilians alike were feeling the pinch, and the muttering against him and his fellow speculators was bitter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
16  On the other hand, all sorts of people were tried and convicted in civilian courts.
17  This study examined patronizing communication in the law enforcement or civilian intergroup context.
18  The attack on civilians is a flagrant violation of the peace agreement.
19  War has made life almost unbearable for the civilians remaining in the capital.
20  Thousands of civilians were brutally murdered during the civil war.
21  Thousands of innocent civilians have been killed in this conflict.
22  Many innocent civilians were killed during the war.
23  Five civilians died in the raid.
24  All wars are brutal, but not all of them involve the mass killing of civilians.
25  UN troops will secure the land corridor so that food supplies can reach the trapped civilians.
26  Many civilians died as a result of allied bombing.
27  Air bombardment raised criticism on the humanitarian grounds that innocent civilians might suffer.
28  The troops secure the area before the civilians are allowed to return.
29  General Kazantsev said the interpretation of the leaflets air-dropped on Grozny on Monday, telling civilians to leave or face destruction, was all wrong.
30  Islamabad publicly opposes drone attacks, saying they kill too many civilians in addition to their intended target - Islamist militants.