Sentence examples for respectable work from inspiring English sources
'respectable work' is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to describe someone who works hard and takes pride in their work, or to describe a job that is considered to be respectable. For example, "After graduating from college, I found a respectable job working in an office."
Where you could just be a worker, respectably, and do respectable work and earn a respectable living and have respectable ambitions – that's just vanished, I think, as an option.
They said she promised them respectable work keeping customers company and pouring them drinks.
Having talked herself out of that pickle, Ms. Ellis went on to graduate and, to her great relief, has several interviews lined up for respectable work.
In his speech yesterday, Pratchett tilted at JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, which is considered a more respectable work of fantasy than his.
Ms. Bergin asked Ms. Brinkley about her new yacht, a cute but respectable work boat she recently bought, which clearly shows Mr. Joel's influence.
"And Justice for All" is a respectable work that too often feels like an obligation, a requirement, on the part of the author as well as the reader.
He is a child of what he calls "the self-consciously respectable working class" in the urban North of England.
And yet nobody questions the sincerity of his claim to be motivated by first-hand knowledge of the ways in which petty crime blights the lives of the respectable working class.
They – and their families, who witnessed the sacrifices their parents made – put their cross by Tory candidates precisely because the bleeding hearts can seem to care little for what used to be called "the respectable working class".
It was a mash of poverty and small prejudices and – probably worst of all for me and my friends, who lived, like Deborah Orr, sheltered by our "respectable working class" families – a chronic rejection of anything considered "pretentious".
In places such as London's East End, the right to a decent council house had always been regarded as part of the inheritance of the respectable working class.
