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Example sentences for: polite

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

Although those present were too polite to split their sides and roll about in hysterics, they were obviously amused, for, as was explained to me, I had picked the wrong metaphor: spend a penny is a Briticism for `go to the loo,' or, as they say in America, `the bathroom.
His portraits are so uncompromising they make Picasso's or Giacometti's look polite.
In 1978, inspired by the civil-rights movement and his reading of Gandhi, Lee dreams up and then organizes the first sit-ins at an abortion clinic, and so helps to steer the anti-abortion movement from its polite letter-writing phase to its angry street-theater phase.
She certainly could have been more polite in writing to you.
In its host country, Japan, Asahi Shimbun was more polite, but still referred to his speech as "ambiguous."