gentleman

Example Sentences

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This gentleman clearly enjoys his work in television news and finds it stimulating and exciting.

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

“You must be quicker if you are to be successful,” Sir Thomas Heneage, the court’s gentleman usher, told him.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

He was a true gentleman and he will be profoundly missed.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

“He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Not that a gentleman like you, so well set up as you, can’t win ’em off of his own game; but money shall back you!

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens