Sentence examples for respectable couple from inspiring English sources

It was OK to be queer, it seemed, if you were a respectable couple, married in all but name.

Wade paid tribute to the "hard-working, respectable couple", who met at Newcastle University, from where they both graduated with MAs in 2006.

A week ago, Miss Houghton who comes from the mining village of South Hetton, in County Durham, had a respectable couple of thousand followers on Twitter.

Paris has more than 60 "clubs libertines" wife-swapping clubs where respectable couples are encouraged to arrive in their best clothes before, in theory, removing them.

The starting point for our production is thus: what if two of these respectable couples were to stray on to the stage?

Her fate is either a lifetime of institutions, or adoption by a respectable white couple.

An English group, Dekko, Strafe, Strafe's wife Cynthia, and Milly play bridge together, and have always spent their June holiday together in an Irish inn run by a respectable old couple named the Malseeds.

In that building, in Turin, Levi was born to a respectable bourgeois couple in 1919, and, apart from a few brief absences — his year in Auschwitz, for example — he lived there all his life.

By William Trevor The New Yorker, August 10 , 1981P. 32 An English group, Dekko, Strafe, Strafe's wife Cynthia, and Milly play bridge together, and have always spent their June holiday together in an Irish inn run by a respectable old couple named the Malseeds.

Promenading down the colonial walkway known as the Prado was a cross-section of the city's humanity; a respectable old couple walking arm in arm, a bored-looking policeman smoking a Soy Popular, two young lovers holding hands with eyes only for each other, a Lycra-clad girl with eyes only for tourists, and a teenage boy with a big grin selling fake branded cigars: "Where you from, my friend?

But there is a constellation of other sins or quasi-sins around that hideous chief sin: one priest stole newborns from young women he considered unable or unworthy to be mothers, claiming stillbirth and giving them to respectable childless couples in an unofficial adoption scam.