courteously

Example Sentences

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Ms. Weiss has so far upheld what I will courteously assume was the implicit bargain that landed her the CBS job.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

The fighters shook hands and interacted courteously throughout their promotional appearance in the hotel’s famed Crystal Ballroom.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 19, 2024

Hoping for feedback, Albee had sent Inge a copy of “The Zoo Story” but received only a courteously noncommittal reply.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2022

Arriving two floors up, at the Rotunda, amid paintings of American generals courteously accepting their enemies’ surrender, he joined a melee that was savage, without rules or limits.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2022

When she told him that she had heard, through Bibi jo, that his youngest wife, Nargis, was expecdng her third child, Jalil smiled courteously and nodded.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini