Sentence examples for respectable one from inspiring English sources

The DJ had a realistic role, a respectable one, and I set my sights on that niche.

The corner was a respectable one in which to sell papers.

The respectable one, he says, is the medical treatment of people with life-threatening drug addictions.

By the standards of the time, the relationship was a respectable one.

Once the British Secret Service was established in 1909 and spying became a profession, if not quite a respectable one, the spy story made vast geopolitical tensions graspable and concrete.

Malcolm Turnbull has condemned Joe Hockey's proposal that first-home buyers be able to dip into their superannuation as a "thoroughly bad idea", contradicting Tony Abbott, who called it a "perfectly good and respectable" one.

An Olympic member since the early '70s, the 53-year-old Allen made a bogey on his final hole but still recorded a very respectable one-over 71.

As prime minister, Mr Brown has many of the limitations that he evinced as chancellor, which were supposed to help Mr Cameron best him: he is a wearying speaker and cumbersome performer in the House of Commons, who tells lame jokes (though he managed a respectable one-liner this week about how "the wheels are going off the Tory bicycle").

Similarly, Parallèlement comprises bohemian and erotic pieces often contemporary with, and technically equal to, his "respectable" ones.

Until recently, it never would have occurred to me that companies would want to do that — particularly if the assets in question were perfectly respectable ones.

While many slang words introduce new concepts, some of the most effective slang provides new expressions fresh, satirical, shocking for established concepts, often very respectable ones.