POLITELY in a Sentence

Learn POLITELY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for POLITELY, such as:
1. He cannot refuse if you ask politely.
2. It's difficult to contradict someone politely.
3. Complete political unity is impossible to achieve.
4. They demurred politely, but finally agreed to stay.
5. Adam enquired politely whether they had enjoyed the show.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of POLITELY
politely
 ad.  in a polite manner
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He was never more than politely interested in any of the things that vitally interested every one else.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  She had lived too long among people who dissembled politely not to feel disturbed at hearing her own thoughts put into words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  Scarlett tried to join politely in the laughter but she did not see any point to the story except that Creoles were just as stuck up as Charleston and Savannah people.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  "No, I don't know, I'm sure," she answered politely.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
5  They seemed to have no pasts or futures, and they politely discouraged Scarlett when, to make conversation, she asked what or where they were before they came to New Orleans.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
6  And living politely in hovels, and I doubt if I'd be received in those hovels.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
7  For some time after Bonnie's death she had been too angry with him, too preoccupied with her own grief to do more than speak politely in front of the servants.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
8  They tittered politely, but they did not move from the social security of their circle, and they did not cease staring.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  She said politely, "I'll think them all over."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  To this gentleman, Stubb was now politely introduced by the Guernsey-man, who at once ostentatiously put on the aspect of interpreting between them.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
11  But, at his superior's introduction of him to Ahab, he politely bowed, and straightway went on to do his captain's bidding.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.
12  Grandfather ignored her singular occupation and greeted her politely.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
13  There was a young lawyer who they left to settle the business; and he came every day, and was about the house, and spoke very politely to me.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  At table, or sitting at her state-room door, still she would encounter the young man's eyes fixed on her, and politely withdrawn, when she showed, by her countenance, that she was sensible to the observation.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
15  Upon this, Mr. Childers politely betook himself, with his equestrian walk, to the landing outside the door, and there stood stroking his face, and softly whistling.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He cannot refuse if you ask politely.
2  The audience are strangely subdued, clapping politely after each song.
3  Adam enquired politely whether they had enjoyed the show.
4  It's difficult to contradict someone politely.
5  They demurred politely, but finally agreed to stay.
6  "I am afraid I can't put it more clearly," Alice replied very politely, "for I can't understand it myself to begin with; and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing."
7  "My name is Alice, so please your Majesty," said Alice very politely; but she added, to herself, "Why, they're only a pack of cards, after all. I needn't be afraid of them!"
8  He tried to frustrate his political opponents by denying them access to the media.
9  Complete political unity is impossible to achieve.
10  The organization is turning to political agitation in order to achieve its aims.
11  Politicians across the political spectrum have denounced the act.
12  He described the detention without trial of political opponents as a cowardly act.
13  Everyone is free to engage in peaceful political activity.
14  The administration is just stonewalling in an attempt to hide their political embarrassment.
15  His resignation after thirteen years is a political bombshell.