Sentence examples for he was respectable from inspiring English sources

Evidently, a friend warned Hitchens afterwards to be careful because people would now think he was respectable.

(Don't tell Dave McClure I said he was respectable. That would ruin his image).

It has the forthright and, yes, sentimental appeal of a Norman Rockwell painting (he's respectable again, you know), as well as a plain-spoken charm similar to that of the Jeanine Tesori-Brian Crawley musical "Violet," revived to acclaim on Broadway last season.

And still she was respectable.

"The sum was respectable," he said, "but not compared with our expenses".

A journal was respectable.

And Gaskell was respectable.

ComputerLiteracy was respectable.

During the years before the Second World War, the chief thing about Winchell was that he was not respectable at a time when respectability was a cultural and moral essential.

He was a respectable person who earned his way there.

By the time he became a lawyer, in his fifties, he was a respectable bourgeois townsman.