Example sentences for: decent

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

  • Healthy societies need a decent supply of verbal taboos and prohibitions, if only as yardsticks by which ordinary people can measure and define themselves.

  • He's an honest, decent man.

  • And so there are self-righteous demands for international labor standards: We should not, the opponents of globalization insist, be willing to buy those sneakers and shirts unless the people who make them receive decent wages and work under decent conditions.

  • More cripplingly, Judge has spent too long in television, and his narrative peters out without a decent payoff.

  • The spread of lighthouses and decent navigational charts had crippled the old standby, the wrecking trade.


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