The official politely tried to nudge me into the category of a transient.

The two partners approach from opposite directions and try politely to get out of each other's way.

They were decorated, not designed, a decadent comfort to patrons politely trying to forget the casualties of the previous decade.

Mr. Wellstone said afterward, politely trying, as he has been for days, to change the subject.

"I felt terrible," she said, "as I was politely trying to get off the phone."

I notice," said Carroll, in the tone of one who politely tries to make conversation, "that you specialize now.

The students politely tried not to stare as we made our way to the reception hall.

But they were bored, though they tried politely to hide it.

When it was his turn, Kresse tried politely to defuse the interrogation.

Knowing you, you'll politely try everything and save yourself for later.