Sentence examples for were gentlemen from inspiring English sources

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were gentlemen

noun

A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; an armiferous man ranking below a knight.

  • Being a gentleman, Robert was entitled to shove other commoners into the gongpit but he still had to jump out of the way of the knights to avoid the same fate himself.

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But they were gentlemen".

"We were gentlemen, not hucksters".

"They were gentlemen about it," Mr. Rodriguez said.

"They were gentlemen … the Ukrainians weren't," Lucas said.

Editors were gentlemen and publishers' offices were like second homes to authors.

"Hopefully if they were gentlemen, they would realize their obligation," he said.

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"There are gentlemen's clubs.

The men are gentlemen.

The guys are gentlemen.

"There are gentlemen here too".

Golf teaches players to be gentlemen.

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