7 sentences with 'gentleman'
Example sentences and phrases with the word gentleman and other words derived from it.
• « The old gentleman concluded there and then that this was a woman of singular and varied talents, capable of achieving the highest returns in the company. »
• « It all became clear when I heard what one gentleman in a traditional kilt was saying to his friends: »
• « A grand gesture was made by Benjamin Guggenheim when, while the Titanic was sinking, he gave up his life jacket to a passenger and went to wear tails and a tie to die "like a gentleman". »
• « The writer Laurence Housman made a gesture of great class, if of a different kind, when in an elegant English house he took off his coat at teatime to save an embarrassing situation for a gentleman who had just arrived in his shirtsleeves. »
• « Outraged, the gentleman replied: "You can't do this to me, I'm a member of Congress! // "In that case," replied the assailant, "give me my money! »
• « "An honourable gentleman [Smith] has observed that a pure democracy, if practicable, would be the most perfect government. Experience has shown that no position in politics is more false than this. The ancient democracies, in which the people themselves deliberated, never had a single characteristic of good government." »