Sentence examples for respectable word from inspiring English sources

He gave the conservative movement its name and, as the historian George Nash, the author of "The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America," says, he "helped make conservatism a respectable word".

When talking, always use respectable words, the bigger the better.

Retarded in America, and spastic in Britain, once respectable medical words, are now unutterable in polite company.

He wrote listeners have the ability to "visualise Sia's animated exterior singing each note loud and proud" and summarized the album in one word: "respectable".

When I was with my students, I was forced to be someone worthy and respectable; someone whose words were valued.

Paperbacking could leverage a title with respectable revenue and decent word of mouth into the sales stratosphere, and often with significant industry knock-on effects.

Conversely, words considered respectable now were once decried.

In other words the respectable backbone of any healthy society.

Respectable people, in other words, keen to retrieve a sense of order in what they perceive to be a time of disordered, disrupted, values.

By then she was known for her self-assuredness before the media: she had already announced that she had breast cancer, then let herself be photographed in her hospital room after her mastectomy — at a time when respectable people only whispered the word "cancer".

And so, I trawled through websites, blogs, books and academic papers, gathering a respectable haul of 216 such words.