Sentence examples for a respectable version from inspiring English sources

And Jerry-San's serves a respectable version of tako su, a salad of sliced octopus mixed with shreds of seaweed and served in a vinegar broth.

I've developed what I think is a respectable version with probably a quarter of the amount of butter used in Italy; you can always add more if you wish, but I think you'll find this sufficiently rich.

Mr Radford has made a fortune out of insurance, not something I would normally applaud since any fool knows the insurance biz is sometimes just a respectable version of those chaps with bulging muscles who used to go round asking shopkeepers how they liked hospital food, and how they might cope in the event of a "mysterious" fire round their gaff.

Instead, golf's unruly younger sibling is growing up, joining the mainstream as a respectable version of its former self.

The idol producers shamelessly milked a minor accident for drama, replaying a moment when 16-year-old Symone Zaire Black fainted after singing a very respectable version of Otis Redding's "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay".

For the rest of us, the vendor who has set up his table at your subway stop sells a surprisingly respectable version — in paper, not straw — for $15 or $10 or even $8.

John Lennon's loose, poignant rendition, from 1975, is the most widely known, but everyone from Muhammad Ali (who laid down a remarkably respectable version, in 1963, when he was still Cassius Clay) to Stephen King (his verbose, tongue-in-cheek take appeared in 1999) has tried it.

The Commission's view of fiscal deficits -- informed if not dictated by the German central bank (Deustche Bundes Bank) -- might be viewed as a superficially respectable version of the Republican Party's lust for expending cuts.