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Example sentences for "visiting card"

  • Sometimes (more often in business) an introduction is made by a visiting card with "Introducing Mr. Halliday" written at the top.

  • Never acknowledge a visiting-card invitation by a visiting card.

  • When the recipient of the condolatory message is simply an acquaintance, it is in better taste to send a visiting card with "sincere sympathy.

  • A photographic picture of the size formerly in use for a visiting card.

  • As explained under the head "When Traveling," a visiting card may be sent to one's friends and acquaintances, bearing the temporary address above the permanent home address.

  • The woman who is making a business call does not usually send in a visiting card, but merely gives her name to the attendant.

  • Making a list of the names upon a visiting card, Grace determined to try them each in turn.

  • It was in fact a visiting card, or to be more correct, the torn half of one, but what was engraved upon it afforded him not the least clue to either the identity or the address of the woman he sought.

  • It looked like a visiting card, and he snatched it up, devoutly hoping that it had fallen from the woman's bag during the attempt he had made to rifle it.

  • When the several pieces had at last been assembled upon the top of the desk, it became quite clear that the Watson name and address had been hastily scrawled upon the torn half of a visiting card.

  • On a lady's visiting card should be written above the printed name: "To inquire after Mrs. Smith.

  • As regards titles, "The Honourable" is the only title that is not used on a visiting card.

  • In the case of there being no mother living, the daughter's name should be printed beneath that of her father on the usual lady's visiting card, but never on the smaller cards used by gentlemen.

  • A Lady's Visiting Card= should be printed in small, clear copper-plate script, and free from any kind of embellishment as regards ornamental or Old English letters.

  • The regulation size, both in this country and England, for a lady's visiting card is three and one-half inches in length and two and one-half inches in width.

  • Young ladies, especially if it is their first season in society, will find it the best form to have their names engraved upon the visiting card of their mother.

  • It is hardly necessary to say that a business card should never be used as a visiting card.

  • One’s visiting card can be used only for an invitation for an afternoon “at home;” invitations to dinner or luncheon must be written out.

  • It is also bad form to send a visiting card with “Regrets” written in one corner instead of writing the proper note.

  • Turning down the corner of a visiting card, meaning that the call was made in person, is no longer in vogue.

  • Each ticket sent a débutante is accompanied by a visiting card on which is written: "Be in the lobby of the Comedy Theater at 8.

  • He might have added that with a hair-pin and a visiting card, she is ready to meet most emergencies.

  • Yet all minutiæ of correct manners are included and no detail is too small to be explained, from the selection of a visiting card to the mystery of eating corn on the cob.


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


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