politely

How To Use politely In A Sentence

• His colleagues listened politely to his harangue but ignored him. THE GUARDSMEN
• Once out of there, they walked around, just glancing around in the stores, occasionally, Jason would ask Sarah if she wanted anything but she politely declined the offer.
• It shall be like one of those period dramas, with guests conversing politely in the drawing room whilst Kate plonks away in the next room.
• But the bashful hero politely declined before going back to base.
• It is the Marxist agenda that has seeped into our ruling caste - especially the Police and judiciary - that is whoilly responsible for what Fraser politely calls the 'fraying' (read wholesale destruction) of our social fabric. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
• The 'American Empire' of the late 20th century, which Luce more politely referred to as the 'American Century', and of which no presidents since Eisenhower and JFK ever whispered the word 'Empire' while it actually existed, was already body-snatched by the time anyone other than Chomsky and Chalmers Johnson impolitely called it by its real name. Barack Obama: Manchurian Candidate Version 2.0
• I'm anti-gassing and would prefer to ask the badgers politely to leave. Times, Sunday Times
• The audience clapped politely but without much enthusiasm.
• They delight in playing tricks on mortals, though they will cease to give trouble if politely requested to do so.
• He politely insists that his unsuspecting victim, whom he has spied on the stairs of their apartment block, share a drink with him. Times, Sunday Times