Example sentences for: courteous

How can you use “courteous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 6. “[Odette] lives in Walton-on-Thames with Geoffrey [Hallowes], a tall, courteous gentlemen retired from the wine business who seems content to write her letters, listen while she tells her stories, feed one's parking meter, and altogether to be as attentive as a wife could wish.

  • I'm thinking to myself, 'If your people would have been competent enough to tell me that I should show my license and courteous enough to put the luggage on for my wife, then I would be on a flight now with my family to Detroit, not roaming an airport with a starving baby being sent on a wild goose chase."

  • Pundits deemed it a "courteous" and "chummy" affair, with "policy agreements … much more conspicuous than disputes."

  • [Odette] lives in Walton-on-Thames with Geoffrey [Hallowes], a tall, courteous gentlemen retired from the wine business who seems content to write her letters, listen while she tells her stories, feed one's parking meter, and altogether to be as attentive as a wife could wish.

  • Was it courteous to say 'kiss my blank'?


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