Sentence examples for respectable term from inspiring English sources

Manband used to be a respectable term, referring to the extendable waist that allowed a trouser to be loosened after a hearty plate of pasta and mash.

I'm trying to put the grandkids through school.'" Over the past two decades such private military contractors (to use the respectable term) have gone into battle in Angola, Sierra Leone, Iraq and Afghanistan, and been linked to a failed plot to smuggle Muammar Gaddafi out of Libya.

But it's now become a fairly respectable term.

That has not, however, stopped Lost Causers who supported Mr. McDonnell's proclamation from trying to recast the war in more respectable terms.

Reliabilism also seems to invoke only naturalistically respectable terms.

But that help was typically circumscribed: If the needy person was a "respectable," long-term member of the community who was suffering due to no fault of his or her own – say, orphaned by an accident – then help came.

How different things have since come to look: Labour won an unexpected but handsome victory in the parliamentary by-election in the Scottish constituency of Glenrothes on November 6th; it is still down in the polls, but the deficit is starting to resemble a respectable mid-term gap rather than an unbridgeable chasm.

But some losses are carried by funds with very respectable long-term results.

It is possible that Fogle's statements were a defense of Romanticism as a group that was both respectable in terms of thought and poetic ability.

No other movie about an artist has been more respectful or respectable in pure art terms, treating Pollock as the serious artist he was and also as a volcanic character.

The fumbling use of that once respectable, now archaic term (which, incidentally, is a category choice on the 2010 Census form) by Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, whom the authors quote in the course of describing Reid's enthusiasm for Obama's candidacy, has provoked hours of voluptuous outrage from Hannityburg and Limbaughgrad.