COURTEOUS in a Sentence

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64 example sentences for COURTEOUS, such as:

1. A person who is virtuous is also courteous.
2. He was courteous always, but aloof, remote.
3. He's always behaved courteously toward my family.
4. I was courteous but didn't encourage conversation.
5. Although she often disagreed with me, she was always courteous.

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 Meanings and Examples of COURTEOUS
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courteous
 a.  exhibiting courtesy and politeness; showing regard or thought for others
Classic Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  He was courteous always, but aloof, remote.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  They were a kindly people, courteous, generous, filled with abounding good nature, but sturdy, virile, easy to anger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  He was unfailingly courteous to her, but she was a little timid with him, largely because she was shy with any man she had not known from childhood.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  She saw him stand beside it, heard him speak and his voice was changed, courteous and respectful as it always was when he spoke to Melanie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  Here was the end of the kindly, courteous house which had always welcomed her, the house where in futile dreams she had aspired to be mistress.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  Violent blood was in them all, perilously close to the surface, lurking just beneath the kindly courteous exteriors.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
7  He went his way, amused, contemptuous, impervious to the opinions of those about him, so courteous that his courtesy was an affront in itself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
8  Some had mental reservations but they were courteous to Scarlett and called on her because they loved Melanie and wished to keep her love.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
9  Quite handsome, too, we thought, and so very grave and courteous.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
10  Honesty and courtesy in business are preferable to boorishness and exposed trickery, but this is not to be taken personally, since all persons in Gopher Prairie are known to be honest and courteous.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  Mr. Pontellier had been a rather courteous husband so long as he met a certain tacit submissiveness in his wife.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIX
12  He made, as he advanced, many courteous signs of greeting to the men he passed, neglecting to notice the women, however, like one who deemed their favor, in the present enterprise, of no importance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
13  Next, Chichikov received an offer of a "cut in" at whist, and accepted the same with his usual courteous inclination of the head.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
14  Madame Odintsov listened to him with courteous sympathy, slightly opening and closing her fan; his talk was broken off when partners came for her; Sitnikov, among others, twice asked her.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
15  But after the courteous readiness you have shown me, I have no right to pretend to lay down.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence:
1  A person who is virtuous is also courteous.
2  If that's what you call courteous, I'd hate to see what you consider rude.
3  Although Internal Revenue Service agents are civil servants, they are not always courteous to suspected tax cheats.
4  Although she often disagreed with me, she was always courteous.
5  I was courteous but didn't encourage conversation.
6  He is the person than whom I can imagine no one more courteous.
7  He's always behaved courteously toward my family.
8  Then he nodded courteously to me and walked off to perform his unpleasant duty.