Sentence examples for Respectably large from inspiring English sources

Americans must imagine a metropolitan area that somehow combines New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, swallowing up a handful of other respectably large towns in the process.

That general picture is surely right, though it can be protested that Homer's singling out of individuals may be just literary spotlighting and that the masses played a respectably large part in the fighting described in the epics.

In the start-up ecosystem of Silicon Valley these would be respectably large numbers, but in the automotive world, fully developing an entirely new line of technology can easily run $1 billion.

Finally, while our modest sample size may have precluded the detection of an association between delirium and post-discharge disability, it comprises a respectably large sample relative to comparable studies of survivors of critical illness.

Partly because all had respectably large brains (even if not all were quite up to the modern average), most of them (with the traditional exception of the Neanderthals) were regularly classified as "archaic Homo sapiens".

So a few nights ago I packed my eighty-pound collie, Harley, into the backseat of the car and drove to the lagoon at Evanston's Dawes Park, where we joined a respectably but not oppressively large crowd of revelers (including a sizable canine contingent) for an hour of Mucca Pazza.

If you want respect, act respectably.

Avis ought be able do that job respectably, because it's an old hand at managing large fleets of vehicles.

The Voyager Mini 2.0 handled all-sized files respectably well across the board, though was notably better with the large Outlook file.

We did respectably, but we didn't have a great month.

Recent ganders I've taken at not just the less well-crafted comment responses to various blog posts (on more and less "scholarly" sites), but the respectably thoughtful critical ones, have me wondering if there isn't rather a large missed opportunity happening here.