GENTILITY in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for GENTILITY, such as:

1. Her family was proud of its gentility and elegance.
2. Yankees haven't sense enough to know that you haven't any gentility.
3. He spoke roughly in order to belie his air of gentility for his entry had been followed by a pause of talk.
4. Between them, they taught her all that a gentlewoman should know, but she learned only the outward signs of gentility.
5. Scarlett thought she had never seen a man with such wide shoulders, so heavy with muscles, almost too heavy for gentility.

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 Meanings and Examples of GENTILITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gentility
 n.  quality of being well-mannered; refinement; people of good birth
Classic Sentence:
1  Between them, they taught her all that a gentlewoman should know, but she learned only the outward signs of gentility.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Scarlett thought she had never seen a man with such wide shoulders, so heavy with muscles, almost too heavy for gentility.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  All her life she had heard sneers hurled at the Yankees because their pretensions to gentility were based on wealth, not breeding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  She might not say Boo to a goose but she'd say Boo to the world or the Yankee government or anything else that threatened her precious Ashley or her boy or her notions of gentility.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
5  Yankees haven't sense enough to know that you haven't any gentility.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
6  "She would be stunned and incredulous at the first signs of my gentility," said Rhett, arising lightly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
7  The men, though they had made money, learned new ways less easily or were, perhaps, less patient with the demands of the new gentility.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
8  He stood whistling to himself with all imaginable coolness, with his hat still on, and a certain air of exhaustion upon him, in part arising from excessive summer, and in part from excessive gentility.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
9  He spoke roughly in order to belie his air of gentility for his entry had been followed by a pause of talk.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In TWO GALLANTS
10  It is hard to say how it came about; perhaps it was because she unconsciously felt the absence in Bazarov of all gentility, of all that superiority which at once attracts and overawes.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  Visions of good and ill breeding, of old vulgarisms and new gentilities, were before her; and she was meditating much upon silver forks, napkins, and finger-glasses.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
Example Sentence:
1  Her family was proud of its gentility and elegance.