Sentence examples for gently turned down from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Then the grid was gently turned upside down and the latency until a mouse was able to keep the hold was recorded with a cutoff time of 90 seconds.

He is Kurt's secret admirer for Valentine's Day in the episode "Heart", and after Kurt gently turns him down, he is recognized by a classmate, who later spreads the word to others in the school that Karofsky is gay.

Turn down the gently boiling water to a simmer.