Sentence examples for respectable from high-quality English sources.

• Now it needs a respectable centre-right party.”

• This stability was sustained by an uneven but respectable economic growth.

• Instead, the black market gave way to a quasi-respectable, if mostly unregulated, scene.

• Unless you call 52 per cent of British voters racist, there was respectable argument about national sovereignty too.

• “He was one of the people who made the problem of consciousness respectable again,” Paul says.

• One of the ways the company could do this, he said, was through “acting as a respectable corporate citizen.”

• The merchants and tradesmen of the prosperous middle class demanded that literature be respectable and sensible.

• You could write an equally respectable survey of the state of modern capitalism by telling the story of a dozen family firms.

Use respectable in a sentence.

• JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, an economist, once quipped that “the only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”

• Essentially, if you'd like to close the business deal and refurnish your mahogany library, this is where you'd go for some respectable deals.

• At a time when actresses were still associated with prostitutes, Siddons took pains to lead an exemplary life as a respectable married woman.

• However, it has two large airports – Charlotte-Douglas and Raleigh-Durham, an extensive rail network and a respectable selection of seagoing ports.

• That is true—although it should be said that several respectable branches of physics, such as meteorology, are not much good at prediction, either.

• The first female leader of the Liberal Democrats, or any of its antecedent parties, fought a clean campaign against Sir Ed Davey, who put in a respectable performance.

• Adam Stone, the chief investment officer for healthcare and biotech specialist Perceptive Advisors, said valuations in those sectors have mostly stayed in a respectable range.

• Rubenhold says: "While separation among the working classes was not uncommon, it spelled the end of the woman’s respectable status among the ‘morally-minded’ of her community.

respectable sentence examples

• By having an official and unofficial Leave campaign, there was the ability to offer a respectable (sovereignty) and less respectable (migrant scum) argument simultaneously.”

• But shortly thereafter Popper met Tarski who convinced him that the correspondence theory of truth was philosophically respectable, and this liberated him to declare that truth, or truth-likeness was the object of the scientific enterprise (LSD: 273n).

• Given all the pre-season pessimism, and the lukewarm reception he received after succeeding the popular Rafael Benitez on Tyneside, Bruce has done a highly respectable job in consolidating Newcastle, especially with takeover talk a constant sub-plot to his work these days.

• It's a story that has ricocheted around the echo chambers of the far right, from conspiracy-oriented internet kooks like Infowars' Alex Jones to semi-respectable media tribunes and radio talk-show hosts to the very highest reaches of the administration itself, including President Trump.