respectable

How To Use respectable In A Sentence

• His savings were just enough to pay for a respectable funeral.
• Many respectable scholars flirt with this stage, and some seem to delight in flaunting their embrace of it; their more staid colleagues are usually indulgent. Did you know that Jews control the Washington Post? [Bumped.] - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
• All very respectable and middle-class. Times, Sunday Times
• On occasion, when a school of blackfish disported by, each one of them a whale of respectable size, Nishikanta would be beside himself in the ecstasy of inflicting pain. CHAPTER XII
• But the fact remains that Wolf and the tendency Wolf represented made an inward-looking discipline possible and, ultimately, respectable.
• There are many well-paid and highly respectable careers which do not require a university education, and this is rarely talked about. Times, Sunday Times
• I fancy that he supposed me ignorant of the matter, or thought that if I had heard of it, I should never connect the respectable Dr. Black of Harlesden with a poor garreteer in the backwoods of London. The House of Souls
• The further that respectable society shuns the children, the more they follow the only route open to them and fulfil all negative expectations.
• Poor Leigh defence let the home team in for several soft tries which gave the home team a respectable result.
• But she had nothing to say throwing any light on the investigation, save that she admitted reluctantly that "Anny" would have been such a nice, respectable young woman if it hadn't been for the drink. The Lodger