Sentence examples for a polite guest from inspiring English sources

Maybe Trump was being a polite guest.

My mother was appalled; a polite guest would rather starve than ask the host for more food.

Instead, she sidesteps both author and director, like a polite guest humoring her dull hosts, and with her considerable intelligence cuts through Sarah's willful psyche and finds dimensions to the role that are not on the page.

In a foreign land, it is clear that if you treat him like royalty, he will behave like a polite guest.

Sledge, who begins the war as a shy, polite guest at someone else's battlefront, becomes a ferocious combatant, only to be worn down by filth, fatigue, brutality and moral corrosion.

He stayed in the kitchen, a polite house guest.

Frankly, I had to learn not be wasteful by promoting the value of bal tashchet and placing it above other values, like being a polite, compliant guest and not making a spectacle of myself.

Visitors should exercise caution, check their moral qualms at the border and behave as polite guests.

And at yet another, the landlady perversely mistreats polite guests but spoils those who pay late and treat her "with uniform discourtesy and insult".

From the start Chelsea made it clear that they were not here to be polite guests, but wanted to play with the muscle and physical edge that has so often discomfited Arsenal over the years.

Despite a stern warning by the official who gave the primatologist her first working permit (he told her when she began her work, "Polite guests in someone's home do not criticize their host"), she has repeatedly disturbed the harmony so cherished by the ever-smiling people of this archipelago.