Example sentences for: gentleman

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

  • In 1781, it was claimed in the Gentleman's Magazine that A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket, so who dares to deny that puns are so called because they are punishable?

  • Barnes & Noblefication: The imagined golden age of publishing was the '30s and '40s, when gentleman publishers like Alfred A. Knopf published only the authors they admired.

  • Eliot a high-church, elitist conservative; William Faulkner an antique Southern gentleman conservative.

  • People of color is an old facetious euphemism for Negroes: it is the plural of gentleman of color.

  • What's going on is that your gentleman is close with a buck.


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