Sentence examples for politely seeking from inspiring English sources

IN A ritual marking the start of the academic year, last month the streets of Santiago were full of students dressed in colourful combinations of rags and body paint politely seeking donations from passers-by in the late-summer sunshine.

The sender, a US army major, was politely seeking advice on a technique we published a few years back involving a bit of (I thought) innocent biochemistry - a method for studying the molecular events involved in signalling between nerve cells.

We learn she even went to the hospital and got a rape test done, and has been persistently and politely seeking an update on her file for years.

If your child is politely seeking your attention, kindly ask adults to please hold on while you quickly respond to your child's interruption.

But, the analyst lamented, because Pakistan is weak, it could do no more than send its army chief to Afghanistan and politely seek the Afghan government's cooperation.

Firmly (but politely) seek honest feedback from the likely key decision-makers.

We greet each other politely, but he sought to deal with people other than me.

On Wednesday Sirhan nodded politely each time Schrade sought his forgiveness.

How to decline a verb that seeks to politely – or otherwise - decline?

I responded (politely and briefly), though "OK NAOMI" seemed rather casual from a person who was, after all, seeking my help.

Now, in a new twist, taxpayers seeking these opinions are asked to sign statements asserting detailed economic motives that are, to put it politely, hard to believe.