Sentence examples for hint of respectability from inspiring English sources

The promoter Tex Rickard was anxious to give the bout at least a hint of respectability.

Tries by Richard Whiting and Jordan Turner, the latter converted by Craig Fitzgibbon, gave the scoreline a hint of respectability for the home side but inbetween Webb claimed his second and then Hall his fourth with Sinfeld converting both.

(Lord Asriel is one of the very few characters ever to call her "Marisa" – otherwise, she retains her honorific at all times, remaining distant, elevated and intimidating, with a hint of widowed respectability, despite her chequered past.

"I feel the cold hand of respectability descending upon me.

The answer, apparently, is obvious: you board a cruise ship and spend a few days on the high seas abandoning any hint of responsibility and respectability in favor of a cocktail of sea air, salt water, and very competitive deck quoits.

As for many things old and once disdained, nostalgia has lent these run-of-the-mill homes a new coat of respectability and a hint of provenance.

PiS's veneer of respectability is probably tarnished for good.

A medical degree is a universal badge of respectability.

In agrarian societies the elderly have a status of respectability.

The car became a common badge of respectability.

These days, the show has won an air of respectability.