How to Use gentlemanly in a Sentence

gentlemanly

adjective

• In 2019, big cities are making a comeback–and Nashville is the happy medium between the gentlemanly ease of the south and the bustle of the east coast.
  — Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Jan. 2019
• A new family moves in next door that includes Olly, a boy who likes to dress in black but has a gentlemanly soul.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 18 May 2017
• The Marquess of Queensbury, by the way, was the man who put his stamp of approval on the sport of boxing’s basic rules of gentlemanly behavior, in 1867.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2018
• There is a more gentlemanly tone in the way the competition is approached.
  — Tod Leonard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Image Jean Ratelle last played for the Rangers in 1975, but his smooth-skating style and gentlemanly demeanor have never been far from the consciousness of the team’s fans.
  — New York Times, 24 Feb. 2018
• Centuries of breeding have taught them what amounts to a gentlemanly pursuit.
  — Author: Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2018
• While many of his teammates were rough-and-tumble players, Carlson appears to have been one of the squad’s more gentlemanly linemen.
  — Will Larkin, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2019
• But his eyes were darting in a kind of gentlemanly surveillance.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
• For all the talk of Mr. Biden as the embodiment of gentlemanly politics, Democrats have no intention of playing by the rules.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2021
• Some trophies, like the Lady Byng for gentlemanly play and the Calder for rookie of the year, mean absolutely nothing in assessing a career at the end of it.
  — Colin Fleming, SI.com, 23 June 2017
• With each trade of a member of the Sixers’ young core, purists around the league derided Hinkie for flouting gentlemanly conventions of the spirit of fair play to take advantage of the letter of the law.
  — David Murphy, Philly.com, 15 Oct. 2017
• What Mickelson did will be unforgivable to many who love the game for its strict adherence to rules and gentlemanly ethics.
  — Tod Leonard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 June 2018
• The gentlemanly Kennedy could not be more different from the bombastic Trump, and so some involved in filling the current Supreme Court opening kept the justice in mind during the process.
  — The Washington Post, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2017
• But fittingly, the French Quarter manages to keep things gentlemanly, with a balanced bite of rye spice and subtle sweetness.
  — Tod Caviness, Orlando Signature, 13 June 2017
• But there was, lost amid the testiness, some gentlemanly behavior.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
• And, though Colbert is gentlemanly rather than bro-ish, his manner with female guests (of which, to his credit, there are many) has odd pings of condescension.
  — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
• But true to his gentlemanly nature, Brad is excited for his fellow singers.
  — Megan Stein, Country Living, 24 Aug. 2019
• Oakeshott’s quaint, gentlemanly Toryism is just one form of conservatism, of course.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 31 May 2017
• This is the gentlemanly heartthrob of everyone's dreams?
  — refinery29.com, 29 June 2018
• For another, there’s the country star’s kind and gentlemanly demeanor.
  — Southern Living, 25 July 2017
• For another, there’s the country star’s kind and gentlemanly demeanor.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 26 July 2017
• Democrats are mulling procedural moves to delay the vote past the September 30 deadline, and they may have been aided by Graham’s gentlemanly ways.
  — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Sep. 2017
• Amy said Miller's gentlemanly behavior started to drop off after their engagement on New Year's Eve of 1996.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• She is wooed by Cree, a playwright whose gentlemanly demeanor betrays no hint of the monster that supposedly lurks beneath.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 11 Feb. 2018
• Hughes is said to have accepted Davis’s payment, but in a gentlemanly gesture, sent Davis a red rose every September on the anniversary of the recording.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 21 Apr. 2017
• As many of us know, large event spaces tend to be overly air-conditioned; this makes his sartorial move into even more of a gentlemanly gesture to his partner.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 6 Jan. 2020
• Imagine, all those women voting in a bloc and banning those gentlemanly delights, as well as child labor and other profitable abuses!
  — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2022
• After a gentlemanly game, everyone enjoyed cold drinks and food.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 26 June 2017
• Cecil Beaton performed the warm and gentlemanly feat of remembering everyone, even slight acquaintances, and putting them instantly at ease.
  — Gloria Steinem, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2024
• Unlike Van Wart, an illiterate farmer, André struck some as the embodiment of the gentlemanly ideals embraced by so many upper-class American officers.
  — Christopher Kuo, New York Times, 21 July 2023

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024