Example sentences

• We were forced to change direction.

• It was civil of him to offer his seat to the old man.

• It pays to be polite.

• Mind your manners.

• Besides attending the funeral, she needs to make all the arrangements.

• It was a surprise to see all the students behaving with decorum on prom night.

• Weakness brought on by a number of respiratory ailments had forced him just last week to announce that he was giving up his conducting career.

• Leaving the room, he bowed to me.