Sentence examples for make respectable from inspiring English sources

But they will still make respectable returns and be less risky.

Both Collins and the Siegels make respectable and not incompatable cases for their view.

It might make respectable takeout, but at these prices, with the disposable chopsticks and the colonialist-fantasia decor, it is cloying.

Look, they say, it's just as we said, the regulatory and capital requirements are so onerous that nobody wants to expand in banking because nobody can see how to make respectable returns.

(Manohla Dargis) 'ATL' (PG-13, 103 minutes) A couple of rap stars make respectable starts on acting careers in this tale of black teenagers in Atlanta, despite a script marred by clichés and predictability.

And because REITs have high dividend payouts, it's quite possible to make respectable money holding real estate during downturns.

Huawei is now making respectable incursions into prosperous markets.

He said he had made "respectable" pancakes, but had run into trouble when cooking an omelet.

The first makes respectable margins; its recovery in the past five years has been the mirror-image of Fiat's decline.

Where once Phil Spector and the Beatles made respectable festive bonbons, these days the charts are clucking with musical turkeys.

Creatures with bugs' bodies and birds' heads are frequent, but they're made respectable, as it were, by being surrounded by decorative borders.