Sentence examples for a polite decline from inspiring English sources

Sometimes the circumstances call for a polite decline -- and that's more than allowed.

I saw myself writing a polite decline of the offer and my job being extended to another.

A polite decline would have been the equivalent to the white flag of surrender to a battle with class I thought I had won.

I giggled and said I was going for a smoke, hoping that was a polite enough decline.

He had not yet learned the celebrity's polite decline — smile, wave, move on — and, after he stopped for his hundredth photo, Swade grabbed him by the shoulders and marched him through the throng.

My polite decline of his offer to heal me left him stunned.

He was deeply offended at my polite decline, and positively furious that the nurse took it away from him.

Another polite decline at the idea of remote work from the company and another job turned down on my end.

We get a series of polite declines.

Clean Up Your Own Shite First, in which he explains why companies with unsupported valuations usually get polite declines from prospective new VCs who don't want to go through the time sink, brain damage and relationship stress to propose the right recalibration for them.

What happened after you finally you got a polite letter that declined The Professor, but which suggested that you submit another, longer manuscript?