Sentence examples for respectable persons from inspiring English sources
"respectable persons" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe people who are considered to be upstanding members of their communities. For example, "The mayor addressed the crowd of respectable persons assembled in the square."
On the crowded train itself, then, he discovered that he'd gone in three weeks from being a colorful and comely — albeit freakishly comely — person to being one of those loathsome urban specimens that respectable persons on T trains slide and drift quietly away from without even seeming to notice them.
My family were keen readers of it, though in the 1950s it led a half-secret existence as a too-frank and too-political account of rural living – sex and socialism – that needed to be kept from the eyes of children and other respectable persons.
He said, "I am a respectable person".
Every respectable person claims to support human rights.
He was a respectable person who earned his way there.
"My brother was quiet, he was kind, he was a respectable person.
I need to be a respectable person, someone who can take his family on holiday.
John Roberts, at least, personifies a respectable person, much like Mitt Romney looks the part of a president.
The execution record names the hangman, James Billington from Bolton, and notes "general demeanour satisfactory, he appears a respectable person".
What respectable person, the thinking went, would want the job, or fail to feel tarnished by it?
Russian news agencies quoted President Vladimir V. Putin as calling Mr. Annan a "very respectable person, a brilliant diplomat and a very decent man, so it's really a shame".
