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"Respectable" in a Sentence (16 examples)
He is said to have been a man of respectable position.
I know some most respectable people in the town.
I hope to earn a respectable income by the time I settle down.
He is respectable in every way.
Hers is a respectable family with a long history behind it.
They were of a respectable family in the north of England.
To equip a dull, respectable person with wings would be but to make a parody of an angel.
At no period of our ancient history does there appear to have been greater attention paid to the culture of the female mind than during the age of Elizabeth and at no time has there existed a greater number of amiable and respectable women.
I'm a respectable businessman.
He seems like a respectable businessman, but he's really part of the Mafia.
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His accomplishments, morals, loyalty, and stature make him a respectable person.
In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.
Turn up to the interview wearing something respectable. She plays a respectable game of chess. He got a respectable B+ on his last exam.
They forced their way into the meetings called by the respectables; and the respectables disappeared. It was of their own respectable good pleasure that they withdrew.
The tensions between the "respectables" and the "gay spoilers"
The “respectables”, then, impute to themselves an absence of such character blemishes, or stated in more positive terms, an allegiance to American mainstream morality.
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