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Six example sentences with urbane, each labelled with its topic.
The detective is written as urbane, at ease in every drawing room and never once raising his voice.
Movies
Their urbane guide moved between four languages at the border and had the paperwork settled before anyone finished their coffee.
Travel
The gallery owner was urbane company, steering nervous first time buyers through the room without ever making them feel small.
Art
The novel's urbane narrator can quote Horace at dinner and put a shy guest at ease with a single question.
Literature
The urbane ambassador defused the border row over dessert, joking in three languages until both ministers laughed.
Politics
An urbane chairman ran the annual meeting like a dinner party, and even the angriest shareholder left feeling heard.
Business
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