Sentence examples for try to be respectable from inspiring English sources

We just try to be respectable.

You just try to be respectable and stay out of the way of the dudes who want drama.

Everything the Mets are today -- a team trying to be respectable, while dealing with current scandal and past blips of glory -- dates to that first spring.

We are free of this burden -- not because we cast it off (for God knows many of us have long tried to be reasonable, respectful and respectable) but because it has been ripped from us by those in power and those weak members of our communities who want to share in that power than to do the hard, self-profaning work or real, lasting justice.

For decades, the Chamber tried to be what it seemed to be: a respectable coalition of businesses.

What would I have thought about my present life and what life advice "back to the future" would I have given to my 50-year-old self? 1. Don't try so hard to be respectable.

"You have to be respectable".

"We raised him up to be respectable.

Either way, I refuse to be "respectable" any longer..

Margins are forecasted to be respectable.

They're beginning to try to look respectable, more like Barack," said Griffin, an Obama backer.