Sentence examples for Maintain decorum from inspiring English sources
"maintain decorum" is correct and usable in written English
You could use this phrase to suggest that people should maintain politeness and good behavior in a situation, like in an official courtroom or classroom. For example, "Please maintain decorum in the courtroom at all times."
"He has a responsibility to maintain decorum," Mr. Maisel said.
If a hearing turns nasty, he said, it is the chairman's job to maintain decorum.
Many saw more than an over-the-top marshal and a botched attempt to maintain decorum.
I ask that you maintain decorum as you have throughout these proceedings.
"I've tried to maintain decorum and distance from Andy," she said.
I ask that you maintain decorum as you have throughout these proceedings.
Even the big-gun dish, a surf-and-turf combination of braised short ribs and caramelized scallops, maintains decorum.
The judge, Col. Gregory A. Gross, has said that his decision on the beard had nothing to do with Major Hasan's intentions in growing it, but with maintaining decorum in the courtroom and ensuring that the suspect followed regulations.
Many lawyers who appeared before Judge Nickerson complained that he kept them on too short a leash, although they gave him grudging respect for doing a good job in maintaining decorum in his courtroom.
Barbed dialogue is a means of being inviting and rejecting at the same time, of maintaining decorum appropriate to the movies of the 40s, of setting boundaries against overt sexuality via tone.
The chaps are Charley and Jack (a red-cheeked and toothy Greg Mills), and to woo Amy (Nili Bassman) and Kitty (Kristin Huxhold) while properly maintaining decorum, Charley dresses up as his own aunt, and ends up attracting every man over the age of 35.
