Example sentences for: polite

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

  • For example, Mike Allen (on LBC) is low-key, calm, and always gracious and polite, seeming to evoke no outrageous calls.

  • The naked terms for such a traditionally taboo subject as the toilet have always proved too much to bear for polite society, which hastily covered the bare-cheeked shame of them with a blanket of euphemism.

  • It is not because we are old that we like the polite, civilized detective story.

  • It was at first thought that Cook and the naturalist Joseph Banks, who was at his side, had erred, either in their understanding or in their documentation, and it was later suggested that an Aboriginal informant had misunderstood the question and replied I don't know or something a little less polite.

  • Usually the most controversial group show in the United States, this year's much hyped selection of the best American art of the last two years is deemed smart but overly polite.


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