Example sentences for: respectfully

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

  • They admire the film's scenic mountain vistas and elegiac tone, saying the latter resembles "a meditative and incantatory piece of music" (Pico Iyer, the New York Review of Books ). Most critics respectfully note that the lack of a plot and the lengthy scenes of Buddhist priests in prayer don't make for high excitement.

  • So we don hectares, litres, and milligrams—but not, I hope, without turning to nod goodbye respectfully to the earliest form of English bequeathed by our ancestors.

  • Users have been respectfully fussy about employing that distinctive word; it has not been slung around indiscriminately, as quintessential is today.

  • Can you tell that I'm dying to talk about Alex Unpronounceable Last Name's Talk piece in yesterday's Times ? In a way I admire what Tina Brown is doing (he said respectfully, protecting his future job prospects).

  • I respectfully disagree.


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