Sentence examples for decent gift from inspiring English sources

To ease the awkwardness, try creating the perception of a decent gift or token of gratitude, rather than a payment.

After making them, be sure to arrange neatly in a decent gift box.

Use a decent, gift bottle for the oil and finish with a rustic handmade label tied on with raffia or ribbon.

Once in a while, a gift that's a little saccharin sweet but fun can go down well, especially in tandem with a decent gift.

Joel Priddy's eye-catching adaptation of O. Henry's classic Christmas tale, "The Gift of the Magi" (about a cash-strapped young husband and wife who sacrifice to buy each other decent gifts), feels positively up-to-the-minute.

When Mitch Kupchak became the general manager of the Los Angeles Lakers in 2000, Jerry West left him a decent parting gift: a roster that largely revolved around Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal and had won the first of three consecutive championships.

Between unemployment checks and her husband's work as a self-employed electrician, they might still have been able to squeak by OK and even get some decent Christmas gifts for the kids.

The Christmas before I turned 28, I opened a box, found a pair of rollerblades, looked at my mother and said, "Are you trying to kill me?" To most people, rollerblades might seem like a decent – if dated – gift.

Make sure your gift looks decent, or else you'd be giving your teacher a bad impression.

Dominguez was a decent painter, but his greatest gift was for forgery.

Never mind beauty or riches, the gift any half-decent fairy godmother would surely bestow at a christening is the lifelong ability to make – and keep – friends easily.