etiquette

Example Sentences

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It’s not your role as a guest and, especially, as a friend of the bride’s parents to point out that the couple fell down on their wedding etiquette.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026

We ate revuelta at his favorite pupuseria, hot filling running over our fingers, locals watching me fumble with the etiquette.

From Slate • Apr. 12, 2026

It’s a question that comes up often in my work as an etiquette coach.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

But then, a little frustration at a cowardly lack of social etiquette is better than, say, a date abandoning you in the middle of a wilderness hike, i.e., the alpine divorce.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

Briony was not among them, but that night in bed, still a little shivery, she went through the handbook again, to see if there were other points of etiquette she might have missed.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan