Sample Sentences forurbane (auto-selected)
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It was a face that held neither Johann's calm composure nor his uncle Max's urbane gravity.† (source)
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He was charming and urbane with visitors, and stopped just short of fawning on them if they happened to be white.† (source)
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He felt deeply drawn to him, and not solely because he was intrigued by the contrast between O'Brien's urbane manner and his prize-fighter's physique.† (source)
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If we give them the week-end to think about it, we shall have them in an urbane Sunday-in-the-country mood.† (source)
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"Anyhow, he gives large parties," said Jordan, changing the subject with an urbane distaste for the concrete.† (source)
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I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff was afflicted, or blessed, with something of his own obsequious suavity.† (source)
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"I fully understand," says Simon with what he hopes is an urbane smile.† (source)
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Urbanity† (source)
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He had seen her lift her eyes, and waved his hand urbanely to her, while he blew her a kiss.† (source)
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He hinted a desire to know whether Martin "drank," how prosperous he was, and how he could possibly have come all this way from the urbanities of Winnemac.† (source)
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All his urbane self-possession had vanished.† (source)
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He had calling cards with his family crest on them and respected all the known rules of urbanity as well as some of his own invention, such as eating artichokes with tongs, which provoked general stupefaction.† (source)
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Exempted by a long career in the Secretariate from personal contact with the peoples of India, he was able to speak of them urbanely, and to deplore racial prejudice.† (source)
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She began with a good portion, but she liked it so much that she took another of the same size, and she was lamenting the fact that urbane etiquette did not permit her to help herself to a third, when she learned that she had just eaten, with unsuspected pleasure, two heaping plates of pureed eggplant.† (source)
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Yousef was the bridge between the urbanity of Salem, of Alan, and these young men, who Alan guessed were being raised more conservatively, far from things like pop music and American guests.† (source)
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[urbanely] Undoubtedly† (source)
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