Example sentences for: gentility

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

  • The problem was that hangings were popular and sometimes drew huge, raucous, picnicking crowds, an image that didn't quite mesh with the orange-blossom gentility the land barons were trying to create.

  • The modern settlement has an urbane gentility with an old-town of grand Italianate mansions linked by cobbled walkways.

  • In modern dialogue, which in no sense approaches the gentility of the perfumed puritanicals, the denotation of unmentionables has broadened to include body organs, curses, and biological functions.

  • Now, having conquered the demons of booze, food, and drugs, he's the first rock star to be in danger of OD'ing on gentility.


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