We found 33 examples of how to use respectable in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 33.
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| 1. | He is said to have been a man of respectable position. | |
| 2. | I know some most respectable people in the town. | |
| 3. | I hope to earn a respectable income by the time I settle down. | |
| 4. | He is respectable in every way. | |
| 5. | Hers is a respectable family with a long history behind it. | |
| 6. | They were of a respectable family in the north of England. | |
| 7. | To equip a dull, respectable person with wings would be but to make a parody of an angel. | |
| 8. | At no period of our ancient history does there appear to have been greater attention paid to the culture of the female mind than during the age of Elizabeth and at no time has there existed a greater number of amiable and respectable women. | |
| 9. | I'm a respectable businessman. | |
| 10. | He seems like a respectable businessman, but he's really part of the Mafia. | |
| 11. | Tom looks respectable. | |
| 12. | The United States are a rogue state. It is not me who says it. I read in the writings of several respectable authors who were born and live in the United States themselves. | |
| 13. | That was a respectable performance, but it definitely wasn't sensational. | |
| 14. | Tom is a respectable businessman. | |
| 15. | Dan took a position at a respectable law firm. | |
| 16. | While there is a plurality of Tatoeba sentences in English, it is encouraging that Esperanto, Italian, German, Turkish, Russian, French and Spanish already have respectable numbers of sentences as well. | |
| 17. | I'm a dreadfully wicked and ungrateful girl, and I deserve to be punished and cast out by respectable people forever. | |
| 18. | Layla has been raised to be honorable and respectable. | |
| 19. | I think I look respectable. | |
| 20. | We remarked with pain that the indecent foreign dance called the Waltz was introduced (we believe for the first time) at the English court on Friday last ... it is quite sufficient to cast one's eyes on the voluptuous intertwining of the limbs and close compressure on the bodies in their dance, to see that it is indeed far removed from the modest reserve which has hitherto been considered distinctive of English females. So long as this obscene display was confined to prostitutes and adulteresses, we did not think it deserving of notice; but now that it is attempted to be forced on the respectable classes of society by the civil examples of their superiors, we feel it a duty to warn every parent against exposing his daughter to so fatal a contagion. | |
| 21. | Sami had a respectable life. | |
| 22. | This made Sami look more respectable. | |
| 23. | Sami was a respectable smooth-talking reverend. | |
| 24. | Could such respectable figures as Ilan Pappe, Noam Chomsky, and Avi Shlaim be considered as anti-Semite? | |
| 25. | There was a knight, a very respectable man. |