Sentence examples for decent best from inspiring English sources

Between sentimentality and venom, all that is missing is a clearsighted view of the vast majority of ordinary disabled people doing their decent best to get along, work, and live tolerable lives.

"Big Ben, I think he's decent at best.

Decent Beaujolais best served chilled (W. J. Deutsch & Sons, Harrison, N.Y.).

Having never troubled Academy voters before, he's now got three decent chances – best film (as producer), script, and acting.

Without any imminent prospect of deepening Europe-wide democracy, Mr Miliband's hopes of strengthening certain roles for national parliaments represents a decent second best here.

'Wedding Day', while it has some of the gutpunch power of classic 'Hole', is decent at best, while its flipside, the more sluggish 'You Know My Name' flirts with self-parody ("I'll bring the truth… I'll never change. I am the one the one you blame…").

In a well-lit environment it was decent, at best.

Sound quality is also very decent, but best of all, they are super cheap, costing just £40 at the moment on the firm's website, half the usual RRP.

4) It's safe to say the Lakers were decent at best from three-point range.

In terms of scented-leaved pelargoniums which also have decent flowers, the best is "Pink Capricorn", which has plain, soft grey-green foliage, faintly lemon-scented.

It would cost the United States a staggering amount to get its overall infrastructure into decent shape — the best recent estimate is $2.2 trillion over the next five years.