1.   At the end there was polite applause from perhaps half the women.

2.   I stumbled off to polite applause.

3.   The keynote speaker had wound up to polite applause.

4.   This was not a collection that sparked shouts, cheers or even an occasional burst of polite applause.

5.   She received some polite applause despite the mistakes in her performance.

6.   Initially, they play great pop but halfway through the set explode into something far wilder, and the polite applause turns into cheers.

7.   Although Canadians are sophisticated about hockey, they tend to react with polite applause and mild booing.

8.   An occasional polite applause broke the silence, like a tennis crowd, until Jamie Moyer started giving up homers and walks, and then orneriness set in.

9.   And the GOP delegates thanked him with a warm welcome and an appropriate amount of polite applause.

10.   And when he was introduced for the first time, there was polite applause and only a few yells.