Sentence examples for knows decent from inspiring English sources

As any thieving Balkan warlord knows, decent people often kill in the name of a half-forgotten national cause and for a religion in which they hardly believe.

And as anyone who has overdosed on Grindr's headless torsos knows, decent abs are pretty much as anonymous as body parts get, even more so than pecs, which can still retain a semblance of character, especially when the guy in question forgoes the urge to shave his chest, or wax it, or if he puts a nice shirt over it.

It creates a kind of continuum, a sickening false syllogism: I know decent people who eat Nutella, who like Robin Williams, and so these must be decent people, too.

Naturally, Baxter's "meanie heart" spawned waves of anger from Hynes fans, Guardian readers and, you know, decent human beings who condemned the writer for her utter lack of compassion and hypocrisy.

She says she can almost hear her colleagues saying, "An African-American female from Colorado with, you know, decent SAT scores" -- she got a 1250 -- "and decent grades," more B's than A's.

I personally know decent hardworking people who have fallen on bad times over the years.

As Uber's range of services grow, having a captive audience in the backseat that the company already knows a decent amount about will likely give them quality information to target their new services and ads.

While I do know some decent officers of the law, there are too many who are nowhere near decent, and those officers stick out.

The A's? Their band of brothers in Oakland are colorful, as baseball fans know - decent choice.

The America I know is decent and generous.

In fact, she did know a decent man who wanted to marry her.