Sentence examples for the presentable from inspiring English sources

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the presentable

adjective

In good enough shape that someone or something can be shown to other people, tidy, attractive

  • Before we go out, let me just go to the washroom and make myself presentable.

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He also makes a request of his assistant, Rob, the presentable young man who hovers unobtrusively and protectively.

Another prototype is the presentable, clean-cut young man who spends years escorting debutantes to society balls and who, when asked if he harbors any homosexual inclinations, is at a loss for words.

So it may have appeared wiser to concentrate on highlighting the contrast between the presentable, football-loving Mr Tusk and the gaffe-prone, conspiracy-loving Kaczynskis.The world's economic crisis is now forcing a change of gear.

I am greatly concerned that Malcolm Turnbull may be the presentable frontman of the Liberal party, but the people pulling the strings, their views are identical to Tony Abbott's and that's not good for Australia's future".

And Mr. Griffin, 50, invariably dressed in a suit and tie, is the presentable face of the extreme right, a cause he has spent most of his adult life fighting for.

That was the function of the erotic thriller, the presentable face of porn that, in its last flush 30 years ago packed seats at the cinema and guaranteed future use of your pause button.

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From the start, Hollywood got a rise out of the drop, and the "deplorable presentable instance" — a dagger in the dark, an ice pick under the bed — is now a prime source of strength, both visual and commercial.

My brother, generally the most presentable of the four of us, spent five days in the retirement home in a clean T-shirt and the same awful pair of brown-and-black ribbed shorts.

At the moment the only presentable material at hand is something Dewey said at Mackinac & something Stassen wrote for St . Eve

I tried to imagine how slim I would have to slice the root to make the salad presentable, but couldn't swallow the thought of even a paper-thin piece.

But the alt-right has often seemed more diffuse than that, more of a catch-all for the least presentable elements of the online right: white nationalists, neo-reactionaries, the male-victimhood clique of GamerGate.

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