Sentence examples for decline courteously from inspiring English sources

If fixing the light bulb is his job, he should do it; if not, not -- although he should decline courteously.

Mr. Bloomberg has politely ignored Mr. Giuliani's views on the matter, just as he has courteously declined the résumés of many of the mayor's commissioners and key aides and chosen not to solicit much advice on policy and specific issues.

It [the letter] declined, indeed, to publish the tale, for business reasons, but it discussed its merits and demerits so courteously, so considerately, in a spirit so rational, with a discrimination so enlightened, that this very refusal cheered the author better than a vulgarly-expressed acceptance would have done.

Mr. Meese courteously agreed.

Mr. Brown answered courteously.

Lin courteously fulfilled this obligation.

They ask for money, courteously but insistently.

They watch one another and bow courteously.

The two actors greet her most courteously.

Everybody is dealt with swiftly and courteously.

The dealer courteously yielded his claim.