Sentences with 'gentlemen'
Example sentences and phrases with the word gentlemen and other words derived from it.
• « The conquistadors of the Americas were generally poor nobles with few prospects in Spain; in the first generation of explorers many were essentially unemployed gentlemen. »
• « Ladies and gentlemen, this is Pluto: an icy world between three and four thousand kilometres in diameter (the size of our Moon, if you prefer to continue with the comparisons). »
• « Most of the Spanish and Portuguese settlers who came to the New World were gentlemen and did not do physical labour. »
• « While these gentlemen prepared their grievances during the Stamp Act Congress, other colonists showed their displeasure with the new law by boycotting British goods and protesting in the streets. »