DEFERENTIAL in a Sentence

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30 example sentences for DEFERENTIAL, such as:

1. With him Vronsky was simple and deferential.
2. And Chichikov executed one of his sidelong, deferential bows.
3. Nat Hicks was there, and he was not so deferential as he had been.
4. She is always extremely deferential to/towards anyone in authority.
5. He nodded in a manner that could only be described as deferential, and walked on to meet them.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEFERENTIAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
deferential
 a.  showing deference; respectful and considerate
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  He was gravely deferential to the vague Gerald but it was to Scarlett that he turned as the real head of the house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
2  They made a point of being deferential to men's opinions, whether they were guided by them or not.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  They all loved her but they thought her the sweetest, most pliable of young women, deferential to her elders and without any opinions of her own.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
4  Pollock was a man of perhaps thirty-eight, slender, still, deferential.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  Nat Hicks was there, and he was not so deferential as he had been.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion on the white coral beach, surrounded by his warlike but still deferential cubs.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
7  He told my mother, in language perfectly respectful and deferential, but quite explicit, that over the house-servants she should be entire mistress, but that with the field-hands he could allow no interference.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  He was taciturn, soft-footed, very quiet in his manner, deferential, observant, always at hand when wanted, and never near when not wanted; but his great claim to consideration was his respectability.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY
9  On reaching the offices of the board, Stepan Arkadyevitch, escorted by a deferential porter with a portfolio, went into his little private room, put on his uniform, and went into the boardroom.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
10  Darya Alexandrovna liked her neatness, her deferential and obliging manners, but she felt ill at ease with her.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 19
11  With him Vronsky was simple and deferential.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 31
12  And Chichikov executed one of his sidelong, deferential bows.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II
13  "This is what I want, my dear fellow," said the count to the deferential young man who had entered.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII
14  The officer evidently had complete control of his face, and while Kutuzov was turning managed to make a grimace and then assume a most serious, deferential, and innocent expression.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
15  Rostov's deferential tone seemed to indicate that though he would consider himself happy to be acquainted with her, he did not wish to take advantage of her misfortunes to intrude upon her.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence:
1  She is always extremely deferential to/towards anyone in authority.
2  They like five-star hotels and deferential treatment.
3  He nodded in a manner that could only be described as deferential, and walked on to meet them.