courteous

How to use courteous in a sentence

• In response, she received courteous acknowledgements of her messages but little else.

  As COVID-19 Ravaged This Iowa City, Officials Discovered Meatpacking Executives Were the Ones in Charge | by Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung | December 21, 2020 | ProPublica

• The Gov.-General courteously proposed to send a large bodyguard to his consulate, but it was not necessary.

  The Philippine Islands | John Foreman

• The general met them, listened courteously to their words of submission, then with a wave of the hand refused the keys.

  Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison

• A policeman courteously notified us that the main street of the city would be closed three hours for a Sunday School parade.

  British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. Murphy

• If a stranger offers you the same services, decline it positively, but courteously, at the same time thanking him.

  The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence Hartley