Sentence examples for a respectable length from inspiring English sources

GUSTIN L. REICHBACH, his flowing locks of curly hair shorn to a respectable length and tinged with gray, had a troubled relationship with authority before he became authority.

The Telegraph reviewed it unfavourably, noting that they "would be unremarkable were it not for the body of work that lies behind it" and that there was "an element of padding to make it a respectable length".

I want to jump a respectable distance.

In order to minimize observational effects, physicians were surveyed at a respectable distance [cf. [ 6]].

Reid also has right to claim that her dress complied with a separate and probably conflicting section of the rules, which asks that dresses be of "respectable length".

You, famously, look absolutely terrible in blue, but here you are dropping a smooth £50 on a respectable cobalt knee-length dress in which you will eat blue cupcakes which make your teeth feel weird, while necking wine and trying to forget that wedding hashtag is #BlueSaturday.

Its length at one time, on one gender, can symbolise a respectable grandiose; it's length at another time, on another gender, can symbolise complete rejection of social expectation.

In fairness, the thirteen increments of focal length, which was the most I could achieve when zooming upwards through the range, are a respectable variety of focal lengths, and a damn-sight better than no zoom at all.

Nestled in a graffiti-scarred alleyway off Woodward Avenue in a quiet residential section of Ridgewood, Queens, Lot 116 runs nearly the length of the alley, a respectable 355 feet.

Therefore, even if the C. elegans TRPM channels operate on the average at only 0.1% of the efficiency of a "respectable" ion channel, only 80,000 channels would be required along the length of the entire intestinal lumen.

The bay windows and full-length lace curtains identify this boarding house as a respectable establishment.