Sentence examples for true and decent from inspiring English sources

That journey through the Californian desert to find fame and fortune, stocked up with "two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-coloured uppers", was also, Mr Thompson claimed, "a classic confirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character".

It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character.

Of course, all ads have to be honest and decent and true.

Or, more important, honest and decent?

Most Swedes consider him reliable and decent.

This was a good pitch for one-day cricket, true with decent pace and carry, and having lost the toss once again and been put in by Alastair Cook, India's batsmen made the most of it.

Whether or not that might be true and you might have decent competition, don't get pressured into taking the apartment without thinking about it relative to other apartments in the same price range, neighborhood, borough, etc.

Indeed, Marcia had a full life and will be remembered as a true, kind, decent, compassionate and charitable lady who will continue to live in the hearts of her friends and family and with the undying love of her husband, John.

It works because no matter how unapologetically vulgar their words, no matter how single-mindedly priapic their preoccupations, these men and boys are good and decent and tender and true.

Jim Hollock's first book, a true-crime tale set in Pennsylvania, got strong reviews and decent sales when it appeared in 2011.

It's true that decent behaviour seems to more meaningful when it is witnessed by an audience, as anyone who's seen a boastful Facebook status about how "I just gave a Greggs pasty to a tramp.