How to Use gent in a Sentence
gent
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Glint or none, this gent had to be cracked.
—Byron W. Dalrymple, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
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Just keep in mind ladies and gents, there is a camera in there.
—Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 30 Oct. 2014
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Time to pick a date and invite some of our leading ladies and gents.
—Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 11 Nov. 2019
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Tyler, at times, sounds like an amalgam of those two older gents.
—M.t. Richards, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
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These gents don’t have much day-to-day stuff to do during the Olympics.
—Michael Russo, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2026
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At least four gents defied the small Cartier trend, though.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2025
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These two gents are clearly at the top of both their tennis and fashion game.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 July 2023
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The senior sub on the desk was a smoothly silver-haired gent of the old school.
—Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
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Thanks to a prosthetic leg, the gent’s gait was a dead giveaway.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
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Being a gent or a supplicant wasn’t the same as being a fool, though.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 June 2026
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Breaking style norms can be fun, and these gents are doing it with confidence.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2023
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For the gent who wants to broadcast his charm without turning anyone off.
—Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2025
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To his credit, the gent manning the phone was very responsive.
—Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
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Two bearded gents pull up stools and contemplate the cocktail list.
—Devra First, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2018
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This one came from a gent seeking a recipe for the Christmas dessert of his childhood.
—Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Dec. 2022
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Tom was a tender southern gent in life, a poet and a music master on stage.
—Eric Renner Brown, PEOPLE.com, 3 Oct. 2017
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Seems like all three gents should be refreshed and ready for the race in the Netherlands this weekend.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2025
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The show, which has been in the works for a number of years, nominates one lucky gent to find a late-in-life love.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
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Well, ladies and gents, four weeks later and every single day is exactly the same.
—Eva Amurri Martino, PEOPLE.com, 24 Oct. 2017
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Jacob Elordi and Troye Sivan are two of the stylish gents who made the cut.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2023
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In Hollywood, a senior gent has hit the point where his rent and income are one and the same.
—Steve Lopez, latimes.com, 4 June 2017
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How will that affect the sprezzatura of Italy’s most dapper gents?
—Gianluca Senese, Vogue, 11 June 2019
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Another flash takes us back in time to a hallway on the Hill, where the two gents steal private glances.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 1 June 2023
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Aside from inquisitive looks, Underwood was able to get some dudes to high five and one gent to do a jig.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 Nov. 2019
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By the end of the night, the store had received the style stamp of approval from New York’s most dapper gents.
—Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2018
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No, the other replies, the lady and the white guy are a couple, and the Korean gent is their old friend.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2023
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Then Hoffman, who is not a dainty gent, falls backward off of the lift and on to the opposite side of the couch.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2022
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The event always brings out a stylish crowd of Manhattan’s most dashing gents, on the runway and in the front row.
—Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2018
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This is a sophisticated encounter with a gent.
—Air Mail, 21 Feb. 2026
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If this little teaser was anything to go by, gents are in for some quintessentially ’90s treats.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2023
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