Example sentences for: mild-mannered

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

  • The Shopping Avenger argued in his mild-mannered manner that British Airways did not, in fact, have a commitment to "on-time departures" because the originating flight did not depart on time.

  • The bright light of the early years of the Renaissance, the talented painter died at 27 after only five years of promising creative activity (1423–1428), working with his mild-mannered teacher Masolino on scenes from Genesis and the life of St. Peter.

  • To prove it, the Enquirer reports that the ghost of mild-mannered Ozzie Nelson is haunting his former Hollywood home.

  • When the Shopping Avenger argued, in an increasingly less mild-mannered manner, that the call was necessitated by a British Airways screw up and, therefore, British Airways should pay for the call, he was told that pay phones could be found outside the lounge.

  • Just as court ritual is still colored by the ancient customs of pre-Muslim Malaya, so a mild-mannered Sunnite version of the Muslim religion is often seasoned, amid this all-pervasive nature, with a generous spoonful of the more ancient beliefs of animist medicine-men.


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