polite remark

Example Sentences

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Amy echoed the polite remark, while Will, eying the three with an attempt at a critical estimate, thought to himself, "They don't look a bit nicer than that girl at the corner table."

From A Flock of Girls and Boys by Perry, Nora

He turned off the furious remonstrances which came like the burden of a song from Berlin, with the polite remark that the Prussian Government would be soon very glad to follow his example.

From Cavour by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

So sorry did I feel for the woman that I leant across and addressed some trivial, polite remark to her, but received no reply.

From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)

I don’t know whether the interpreter thought fit to explain the polite remark to his superior.

From The Three Lieutenants by Webb, Archibald

He has always received me with some polite remark, as if I were a perfect stranger whom he had never seen before, but he always seemed in a hurry to get rid of me.

From East of the Shadows by Barclay, Hubert, Mrs.