Example sentences for: decent

How can you use “decent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There are some decent things in Bush's second big education proposal that got overshadowed by his implicit attack on conservative Republicans.

  • Frustrated in their search for a decent living, unable to benefit from an education often obtained at the cost of great family sacrifice, and blocked from starting families of their own, some of these young men were easy targets for radicalization.

  • Happily, the week's TV line-up provides several decent alternatives to getting out of the house and actually doing something.

  • In fact, such a bargain might be deemed much more ruthless in the Clintons' case, as the wife's reason for tolerating her husband's misbehavior would probably be less a desire to keep up decent appearances than a desire to gain and retain power herself.

  • But Brooks hasn't provided any evidence that Steven was ever a decent writer.


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