Sentence examples for decent are from inspiring English sources

As the court's decision reminds us, constitutional and decent are not the same thing.

Anne Hathaway has urged white people to ask "how decent are we really" after a black teenager was killed in California.

In "Great Problems in the Street," she writes about "the indifferent" — South African whites who, though "kindly and decent," are essentially apathetic and unwilling to look beyond the comfort of their lives to confront the injustice that is its foundation.

Edric is questioning the inertia that allows environmental degradation to go on unchecked: Quinn and Anna, though basically decent, are trapped in a network of yes-men working for a distant, faceless "Executive".

But some see this as an over-exposed trend, saying that with the current paucity of quality rock, bands that sound halfway decent are getting far too much attention.

"We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, that being good and decent are worth it," he writes.

Decent was the word.

And being decent; being decent to people".

The word decent is heavily underlined.

And sometimes decent is good enough.

I think the only one decent is in Portland".