Sentence examples for a respectable enough from inspiring English sources

The 1969 team was 2-4, a respectable enough record, though five opponents were the junior varsities of small colleges like Wheaton and Valparaiso.

Though not a work of enormous individuality, it is a respectable enough composition, sincere in intent and full of busy musical ideas.

I mean, it was no Dennis Wideman hurdy-gurdy, mid-air fail – it was a respectable enough attempt – but it was a key moment, one that ended up being a turning point anyway, just for the other team.

Nakajima was a respectable enough mid-fielder but, when Honda tried the same trick on Williams, making it clear they could keep their engines in 1988 if they took Nakajima as Nigel Mansell's team-mate, Frank Williams gave them short shrift.

That's a respectable enough number, but not nearly sufficient for the kind of tentpole the company needs now that "The Hunger Games" is starting to wind down.

This is all respectable enough for the 26-year-old, although time is running out for his fame to extend beyond a precipitous-looking place in this top 10.

I will!" With less than a week to go before the caucuses, Mr. Gore remains the front-runner while Mr. Bradley hopes to make a showing respectable enough to proclaim a moral victory he can ride into New Hampshire the following week.

This is starting to sound all too uncomfortably familiar to me: While I eventually graduated with a GPA respectable enough to earn me a spot on the Dean's List, I cringe remembering how flagrantly I allowed myself to tank academically my first year in college, missing classes because I had stayed up until 6 a.m.

The city's tea dancers -- a profession just respectable enough for them to resent being called prostitutes -- tend to be "beautiful, sad women reduced to a life nothing could have prepared them for, and which many cannot manage".

He pointed out, accurately, that Barclays had handed £2bn to the Revenue last year, a figure that sounds respectable enough in the context of pre-tax profits of £6.1bn for 2010.

If the final scoreline looks respectable enough from a Wasps perspective it could have been a very different story.