Sentence examples for respectable surnames from inspiring English sources

The right is laden by nepotism, dominated by particular families with respectable surnames, by privilege and by connection.

Two new apartment projects testify to a return, of sorts, to respectable-sounding surnames.

Akhmatova's father did not want to see any verses printed under his "respectable" name, so she chose to adopt her grandmother's distinctly Tatar surname 'Akhmatova' as a pen name.

The surnames were similar.

"One respectable.

Pretty respectable.

Really any respectable Slytherins.

A journal was respectable.

Failures are entirely respectable.

Respectable opinion is aghast.

This is not respectable.