Example sentences for: gentlemanly

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

  • He makes a fatal miscalculation: The initial murders are so horrifying in their plainness that when the movie takes the gentlemanly way out and refuses to provide a cathartic bloodbath, the audience feels burned.

  • Should I take the gentlemanly way out and quit parking in the spaces reserved for the breeders or continue my lonesome fight?

  • This story tops the Wall Street Journal 's "Worldwide" box, off-leads at the Post , goes below-the-fold at the NYT (which runs a dramatic video-still of the assassination attempt), and gets reefered by USAT . The NYT off-leads the serious, gentlemanly debate between Al Gore and Bill Bradley in New Hampshire, a story fronted by the LAT and reefered (with front-page pictures) by USAT and the Post .

  • I'm happy to buy the notion that John Travolta and Nicolas Cage were able to swap faces--after all, they were aided by a "state-of-the-art morpho-genetic template"--but I never quite understood how Cage, who is as lean as a rattlesnake, and Travolta, who has the sort of gentlemanly proportions that inspired relaxed-fit jeans, managed to trade bodies as well.)

  • Annan is the world's most gentlemanly politician.


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