Sentence examples for decent English from inspiring English sources

There aren't any decent English managers.

Markov, who speaks decent English, frequently goes on foreign television to make the Kremlin's case.

But he spoke excellent French and decent English, and knew the Toubkal valleys by heart.

"Decent English people are disgusted at your filthy suggestions," says one letter.

Fateh spoke decent English, wincing when he thought he'd mispronounced something.

"It is not something I would expect a decent English newspaper to do," he said.

There are hundreds if not thousands of books on the theory and practice of democracy, but it is hard to think of a single recent (and decent) English-language book on the idea of political meritocracy.

The archetypal half-decent English player available for obscene money to an altruistic oil baron, he signed for Mark Hughes's Manchester City in January 2009.

Several times, he recounts with awed wonder how decent the English police officers were; that rather than beat him, one reached out and affectionately ruffled his hair.

Insistence on respectability, at the expense of candour, had led Carlyle to observe acridly, "How delicate, how decent is English biography, bless its mealy mouth!" and to pillory its productions as "vacuum-biographies".

After a so-so meal at The George Inn we decide we'd probably have been better off eating at the Flint Barns – a suspicion that's confirmed over a very decent full English breakfast the next morning.