Sentence examples for gently turn down from inspiring English sources

The night I attended, I watched Start Garden staffers gently turn down quite a few companies for additional funding.

Lauduree is crushed when the teacher gently turns down her request to stay with her.

Pence asked for a signed copy of a photo of the flight deck and was gently turned down by staff.

Social networking seemed to have better prospects than newspapers and she didn't want to move to D.C., so she gently turned down Donald Graham.

It was very philosophical". Social networking seemed to have better prospects than newspapers and she didn't want to move to D.C., so she gently turned down Donald Graham.

Mrs. Rell had asked in advance that no one bring gifts, and she gently turned down at least one small package offered.

In the first of the Opus 120 sonatas especially, Mr. Shifrin and the pianist André Michel Schub worked the material back and forth between them with a goldsmith's artistry, gently turning down the ends of each movement into diminishing filigree.

On Terkel's behalf, Judge gently turns down awards from conservative groups whose leaders seem wholly unaware that their honoree, were he not philosophically and physically incapable of violence, would as soon burn their headquarters building to the ground and spit on their smoldering cause as accept their Good Citizenship award.

Turn down the gently boiling water to a simmer.

Quintus tells him that he must either turn down impossible requests gently or not turn them down at all, since "the former marks a man of good character" (vir bonus) and "the latter is the mark of a good candidate" (petitor bonus).

Bring to boil, turn down, cover and simmer gently for 10 minutes.