Sentence examples for had become respectable from inspiring English sources

It had become respectable.

By 1647, he said, they had four daughters and had become respectable, if still curmudgeonly.

Football writing, previously very much a poor relation to cricket writing, had become respectable, and financially viable.

Because they had become respectable, they could no longer be called comics and were renamed graphic novels.

Still, the sections on the 60's and beyond are less energetic than those chronicling the early years, maybe because the iconoclasts had become respectable.

She claimed her mother had run a brothel, hence, perhaps, Day's unimpressed attitude towards sex, while her tearaway father had become respectable and successfully pursued serious money, but was distant from her emotionally.

Once a bad boy, Cassandro has become respectable.

On the other hand, the idea of parity in French life and politics has become respectable.

It has become respectable enough to serve as European Capital of Culture in 2013.

Chastened by the bad publicity they received ten years ago, and now cowed into submission by the war on terror, they have become respectable, even docile.

Yet the outrage expressed in Hiller's debut persists in these pages, not least at the Phalangist butchers of 1982 having become respectable members of the Lebanese government.