Sentence examples for being respectable from inspiring English sources

For your kids sake, find ways of being respectable even if you honestly can't respect your ex-spouses lifestyle or choices.

Some, being respectable lifelong Tories, may not be Irvine Welsh buffs.

The greatness of movies, she says, "is in not being respectable".

Life's too dull to go through it being respectable, I suppose.

In the past few years, we have been reminded that being respectable will not save our lives.

"For a man who fought all his life against being respectable, this comes as a stunning defeat," Arlo Guthrie said in 1998, when his father was put on a 32-cent stamp.

A journal was respectable.

"But it's respectable".

It is respectable though unspectacular.

His drives will be respectable.

These are respectable arguments.