Sentence examples for sort of decent from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Blankenhorn, with whom I've debated gay marriage for years, is the sort of decent, moderate opponent we could use more of.

I think he could see in me something that didn't really appear until later, which was a sort of decent side".

Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell endured a frustrating Thursday when the lack of any sort of decent breeze led to their medal race in the 470 class being postponed.

And most of them, if left to their own devices without the people with the guns in the middle, would find some way to make some sort of decent go of it".

Granted, Paul made a sort of decent showing near the close of the night talking about cannabis oil and children with seizures, but that's not going to move the needle far enough to get him through Iowa.

And so here is the new, chef-less iteration of Mia Dona: exactly the sort of decent, middlebrow, red-sauce Italian restaurant you'd relish if you found it in a town near the town where you grew up in the suburbs of New York.

People have hang ups, and that means all sorts of decent, kind, respectable people are not liked by (some) others, for no good reason at all.

Despite this, Wallander is the sort of basically decent, liberal character you love all the same.

"I always think of his work being a consequence of his New England background — that stereotype we have of the New Englander as sort of stoic, decent.

P is for Peter Peter is the eldest Pevensie and, like Julian in the Famous Five, the sort of upright, decent chap that England used to depend on.

"I would be astounded if Surrey police did not have some sort of proper, decent, thorough corroboration of his claims, because when you are dealing with somebody like him you would not go public with it unless you had that.