Example sentences for: decent

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

  • Even amateurs, though, can learn how to make up a pretty convincing story in the comfort of their own homes, using nothing more than a mild sense of mischief and a decent word processor.

  • One of the worst features of American politics is the way we treat decent people who fail to win elections.

  • "That was a miserable year, when I watched a great man, a man I love more than life--you know, one of the really fundamentally solid, decent people--go from 92 to 38 in a very quick period of time."

  • I also wondered whether a Louisiana death row would have been integrated in 1935, and whether all but one of its guards would have been so decent and humane.

  • The second film this summer featuring a little boy who sees dead people gets decent reviews, but most say it's not as good as the similar box office smash The Sixth Sense . Echoes focuses on the little boy's father, played by Kevin Bacon in "one of his best performances" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Bacon also possesses second sight, not to mention a compulsion to dig up his backyard following an impromptu hypnosis session at a party.


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