Example sentences for: politely

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

  • The year is 1837--that of Victoria's accession--but we get a sense not of empire or of politely crumpeting tearooms but of decay and disease, of the more-Dickensian-than-Dickens underside of rapid industrialization and urban growth.

  • When people try to push ahead of a queue at a bus stop or in a shop, one would politely say to the person, “Get in the far queue.

  • Thurmond ran for president in 1948 on what is politely called a "states' rights" platform or accurately called a "segregationist" platform.

  • The crowd applauded politely.

  • References to his purported authorization of the Tiananmen Square massacre were politely buried.


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