Sentence examples for the reasonable thing from inspiring English sources

That would be the reasonable thing to do, even though reason is in short supply in today's Washington.

"The reasonable thing to do is to offer protection for the whole trial".

We thought a corkage fee was the reasonable thing to do, so we set it at $10.

The reasonable thing to do was to leave the car in Detroit and let my brother take care of it.

But after that, he said, "the reasonable thing was to cut back and see what you really need.

I did the reasonable thing, hurling his bicycle over a low fence, cursing him profusely, and demanding his name and contact information.

Are you sure that the reasonable things you believe in are true and that every outrageous idea you abhor is false?

Do all the reasonable things you can to create a good relationship before you leave, and allow your partner the same opportunities so that there remains no unresolved business, and no internal blame on yourself for destroying a commitment which could have been repaired.

Kornreich said her instinct was the "do the commercially reasonable thing" and noted that Sony had agreed to let Kesha record without Gottwald's participation – an agreement Kesha's lawyers said would set up the singer for failure since Sony's interests lie in promoting Gottwald.

On the one hand, "why isn't this the most reasonable thing in the world?" Justice Stephen G. Breyer asked Donald J. Ramsell, Mr. Lidster's lawyer.

"I would get fired if I did that," McKay says, fairly squirming in his seat to make this seem like the most reasonable thing in the world.