How To Use Courteously In A Sentence
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Rick Rubin's severe, thrashing beat to proper effect; Hov courteously brought his instant-quotation A-game for his label founder's return to rap.
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It was translucent and obviously a ghost or a close variation of a specter, bowing at the young scientist courteously.
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I want to encourage such customers to complain and I want us to resolve those complaints quickly. courteously and efficiently.
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Whenever Mr Cockerell rings the bell some one in the butts courteously rings back.
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I want to encourage such customers to complain and I want us to resolve those complaints quickly. courteously and efficiently.
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The vast majority of HGV drivers drive carefully and courteously through these towns.
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But it so chanced, that Bello's crafts, one by one meeting the foe, in most cases found the canoes of Vivenza much larger than their own; and manned by more men, with hearts bold as theirs; whence, in the ship - duels that ensued, they were worsted; and the canoes of Vivenza, locking their yard-arms into those of the vanquished, very courteously gallanted them into their coral harbors.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)
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Said my friend on GChat, who I was "courteously" keeping updated on my first experience with the game.
Decision Paralysis, Or Why I Can't Get Out Of Vault 101
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It struck me as being almost uncourteously decided.
Framley Parsonage
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Although the friendly Dominicans spoke courteously to one another while discussing the weather, their faces were strained and their voices quavered upon mention of the name Georges.
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Usually, there are well-informed salespersons at the venue, to courteously help you make the right choice, and who even suggest suitable styles.
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They guarded their opponents courteously, looked for unchallenged spaces to catch the ball, and settled for long-range heaves.
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It can flourish only when there are still occasional pockets of the population who behave well – that is to say courteously, decorously and without leaving glistening lumps ofphlegm wherever they go – to replenish the stocks during the day.
Lucy Mangan: The sound of the suburbs
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Prince was doughtier than he, sheathed his scymitar and stood till the young man came up to him, when he accosted him courteously and said to him, “O youth, art thou a man or a Jinni?”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He picked them up and courteously enquired of the young woman sitting closest with her boyfriend if they were hers.
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She explained to the publican that this was a great English knight travelling from the Monastery to the court of Scotland, after having paid his vows to Saint Mary, and that she had been directed to conduct him so far on the road; and that Ball, her palfrey, had fallen by the way, because he had been over-wrought with carrying home the last melder of meal to the portioner of Langhope; and that she had turned in Ball to graze in the Tasker's park, near Cripplecross, for he had stood as still as Lot's wife with very weariness; and that the knight had courteously insisted she should ride behind him, and that she had brought him to her kend friend's hostelry rather than to proud Peter
The Monastery
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And when the usual "monomachy" began, he singled out the burliest and boldest knight whom he saw, rode up to him, lance point in air, and courteously asked him to come and be killed in fair fight.
Hereward, the Last of the English
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This gambit is particularly effective when your interviewer courteously neglects to probe you on your ‘Come to Jesus’ transformation.
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And Reagan looked at him not uncourteously and said, "What are you doing here?
Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer
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Then he nodded courteously to me and walked off to perform his unpleasant duty.
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When things proceed to French kissing, most women prefer a tongue that initially probes and teases, as if courteously requesting entry, rather than a slobbery ram-raider.
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Mrs. Makebelieve understood also that the big man's action was merely his energetic surrender, as of one who, instead of tendering his sword courteously to the victor, hurls it at him with a malediction; and that in assaulting their friend he was bidding them farewell as heartily and impressively as he was able.
Mary, Mary
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He courteously includes any stray whim that floats through his mind, however original or trite, and lets it dart away without probing further.
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Remember always that your obligation is to encourage students to behave civilly and courteously.
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If I disagree with their ideas or behavior, I will do so courteously, without personal attack.
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He pushed uncourteously past the young man and went out.
The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)
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The _tehsildar_ [2] received him courteously, and gave him some bread and milk, but would not hear of his staying for the night.
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
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Without looking to the right or left to notice the scene of rural wealth, on which he had so often gloated, he went straight to the stable, and with several hearty cuffs and kicks, roused his steed most uncourteously from the comfortable quarters in which he was soundly sleeping, dreaming of mountains of corn and oats, and whole valleys of timothy and clover.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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It is the first regulation governing commercial service to treat customers courteously.
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Two rustic horsemen courteously stand aside, taking the chance to pasture their horses, whilst an oxcart passes on the steep track.
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And this activity, which we stolid beef-eaters, before we had been taught by modern science that we were no better than baboons ourselves, were wont discourteously to liken to that of the livelier tribes of Monkey, did in fact so much impress the Hollanders, when first the irriguous Franks gave motion and current to their marshes, that the earliest heraldry in which we find the Frank power blazoned seems to be founded on a Dutch endeavour to give some distantly satirical presentment of it.
Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
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`I wouldn't pull it too far left ," Fehely said courteously from behind Salter.
A BODY SURROUNDED BY WATER
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Guthrie received him courteously in the manse, but made it clear that he did not submit to the sentence out of respect to the authority of the bishop who had imposed it.
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He had stated his terms courteously, but firmly, from the first.
Ruined City
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Good manners also dictate that you handle your mail promptly and courteously.
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All visitors were treated courteously by the polite volunteers, and tea and meals were served to one and all.
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In the same moment, he heard his name courteously sounded; and, to his pleased surprise, saw Don Benito advancing -- an unwonted energy in his air, as if, at the last moment, intent upon making amends for his recent discourtesy.
The Piazza Tales
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“I must have mistaken the person to whom the letter was addressed, then;” and, as she spoke, Mistress Martha Trapbois was in the act of stooping to lift the paper which had been so uncourteously received.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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“Go, I will pay you to-morrow,” said Aziz to the driver, and as they went off he called courteously, “You are most welcome, ladies.”
A Passage To India
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He said Sire Galan had spoken up when this cataphract eyed him, saying he wondered why he gazed so discourteously.
Wildfire
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Then he nodded courteously to me and walked off to perform his unpleasant duty.
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I did full uncourteously unto Sir Launcelot, and full unknightly, and full knightly and courteously he did to me again; for an he had been as ungentle to me as I was to him, this day I had won no worship.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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He's always behaved courteously toward my family.
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And the Captains Three called courteously from deck to scuttle-butt: --
Verses 1889-1896
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It was translucent and obviously a ghost or a close variation of a specter, bowing at the young scientist courteously.
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He had received word from a big wig somewhere along the line, and now the Ryans were to be 'courteously' escorted off the premises.
Dangerous Lady
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His manner was courteously masculine with no trace of the eunuchoid or effeminate; but in our hundreds of private hours together, Mac never hinted at a sexual propensity of his own, in any direction.
CLEAR PICTURES
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He picked them up and courteously enquired of the young woman sitting closest with her boyfriend if they were hers.
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He revested right courteously the poor naked of our Lord.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7
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He added: ‘We were received courteously and considerately and they listened carefully to what we had to say.’
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'Doctor, you have right well and courteously chastised our presumptuous emprise; algates, your love is dear to me, as should be that of a man of worth and learning; wherefore, you may in all assurance command me, as your creature, of your every pleasure, saving only mine honour.'
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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He has written to me courteously and in great detail, explaining technical points about the way his site works.
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Nicolas has come to inquire for Marie, but Madame Famette has received him so uncourteously that the poor fellow contents himself with hovering about on the chance of meeting Marie alone.
Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873
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He and his city wife (probably chosen for him by Lilisaire because of her family connections, she being of the Mare Crisium phratry) received me courteously if not cordially and were as cooperative as could be expected.
The Stars Are Also Fire
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There it can be said of every man, He suffereth long and is kind; envieth not; vaunteth not himself; is not puffed up; seeketh not his own; behaveth not uncourteously.
The Gospel of the Hereafter
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He hailed us courteously, and asked if he might abide with us till morning, and we naysaid him not, if he might do with such cheer as we might make him.
The Sundering Flood
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Travelling in Italy in those days was fraught with many annoyances, for, in addition to the slow progress made in the vetture, there seems to have been (judging from the journal) a dogana, or custom-house, every few miles, where the luggage and clothing of travellers were examined, sometimes hastily and courteously, sometimes with more rigor.
Letters and Journals 01
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“The Princess of Broadswords and Targets, I say,” answered his companion; “for the Lady of Montrose herself could not be more courteously waited upon; she has four Highland maidens, and as many bare-legged gillies, to wait upon her orders.”
A Legend of Montrose
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They speak courteously, but in a strangely mechanical way, with a flat intonation.
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'I don't think we have met,' said the chairman courteously.
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Tough-featured, broken-nosed men in expensive coats loom large, casting dark shadows, courteously standing aside to let ‘the little lady’ pass.
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Such a direct riposte is rare and the opportunity to make it courteously and publicly, rarer still.
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He has come to earth to verify Mercury's tale of the people's badness, and finding the news only too true, besides being uncourteously received by the people around, he is glad to meet with a kindly welcome at
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
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Angry taxi drivers responded by boycotting a planned workshop on treating customers courteously.
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The sole woman inside washing hands at the sink politely and courteously showed me out.
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He had a pince-nez on his nose; but as soon as he saw me he took it off (evidently as a mark of politeness), and courteously lifting his top-hat, but without stopping, however, said to me with an elegant smile: “Hullo, bonsoir,” and passing me went downstairs.
A Raw Youth
