Sentence examples for but creditable from inspiring English sources

Two years later in New York City, when his father refused to act one night, Edwin replaced him as Richard III, giving an imitative but creditable performance.

Elisa Carrió, a centrist anti-corruption campaigner and a former Radical, came a distant but creditable second with 23%, while Roberto Lavagna, Mr Kirchner's former economy minister, got 17%.

I began reading the magazine as a fearful, ungainly cook several years ago, and I remember the inordinate pride I took in putting on the table, for the first time, a basic but creditable Thanksgiving dinner, made entirely with C.I. recipes.

— Name Withheld, Manhattan It is estimable for members of a community, like a congregation, to respond to one another's distress, but less creditable to be busybodies, snooping into a neighbor's personal life.

One critic described it as "creditable but not exciting".

But many less creditable royal interventions have gone underreported and are seldom discussed.

What pulled him down was a creditable but misplaced sense of shame.

Australia, for instance, has wide discrepancies of income, but came a creditable ninth in the most recent PISA study.

After a creditable but ultimately fruitless performance in their opening match of Euro 2012 against Germany, the requirement for Portugal is simple when they face Denmark in Lviv.

Against all odds, more than 5 million H.I.V. infected people worldwide are on treatment, a minority of those who need it, but still a creditable start.

Before that, it was mostly creditable but minor turns on television in Band of Brothers, Sky 1's Hex, the Irvine Welsh drama Wedding Belles.