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Example sentences for "good breeding"

  • When she heard their words and understood them she said, "As for the chapter of good breeding, it is wide of comprehension, being a compend of things perfect.

  • FN#182] Nor would aught of shame accrue to me thereby, for I have read books and studied the rules of good breeding in the language of the Arabs.

  • A stranger would almost think this home was a school of good breeding, and it is a real treat to visit these people.

  • The irate visitor then began using his tongue, with no regard for the rules of propriety, good breeding, or reason.

  • Generally shyness comes from a person thinking too much about himself--which in itself is a breach of good breeding--and wondering what other people think about him.

  • They frequently talk four or five at a time, and directly across each other; neither of which proceedings is exactly according to my ideas of good breeding.

  • It seemed as if she really carried into the room with her an atmosphere of good breeding, for we, magically as it were, forgot all about the absurdities of our appearance.

  • Are they not laughing at the 'Dodds,' and their thousand solecisms in good breeding?

  • She must be even more upon her guard than a man in all those niceties of speech, look and manner, which are the especial and indispensable credentials of good breeding.

  • The court ceased to be the arbiter of manners, though the aristocracy of the land remained the high exemplar of good breeding.

  • This is one of the fundamental rules of good breeding.

  • Distinguished by good humor and good breeding.

  • A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.

  • I do not say this that I would by any Means lose your Acquaintance; but I would keep it up with the Strictest Forms of good Breeding.

  • It attracts attention of no enviable kind, and is looked upon as a want of good breeding.

  • Neither should you subject her to the impropriety of carrying on a conversation in a tone necessarily louder than is sanctioned in public by the laws of good breeding.

  • A good memory for these trifles is one of the hall-marks of good breeding.

  • Nor would aught of shame accrue to me thereby, for I have read books and studied the rules of good breeding in the language of the Arabs.

  • Baronet; "how a young woman of Lady Juliana's rank and fashion should be guilty of such a solecism in good breeding.

  • Taking this for granted (as I think it cannot be disputed), it is astonishing to me that anybody who had good sense and good nature (and I believe you have both) can essentially fail in good breeding.

  • I say, asked; for I have before observed that I came up to London ignorant of every point of good breeding.

  • At that time I understood no single point of good breeding: I had it all to learn!

  • I was even too angry to comply with the forms of good breeding so far as to leave my compliments for the earl: I departed without ceremony, and retired to my chamber to contemplate my change of situation.

  • As compared with the English, the French or continental fashion is certainly more consonant with the rules of good breeding.

  • Cleanliness and neatness are the invariable accompaniments of good breeding.

  • But the practice must not be considered a test of good breeding in America.

  • To reprove or speak sharply to a servant before your guests, manifests a shocking want of good breeding.

  • The perfection of good breeding in a hostess, is perfect ease of manner; for the time she should appear to have no thought or care beyond the pleasure of her guests.

  • The attention to the small details of table etiquette is one of the surest marks of good breeding.

  • The severest test of good breeding in a lady, is in the position of hostess, receiving dinner guests.

  • To disregard every rule of good breeding is the symbol of real attainment in the creative art of living.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good breeding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    better system; good advantage; good child; good country; good degree; good engineer; good enough; good government; good grace; good green; good greenwood; good heart; good life; good lords; good manners; good meal; good nurse; good people; good reputation; good rider; good sized; good soil; good sound; good things; goods store; little iron