Example sentences for: decorum

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

  • Like almost everything in the whole group, this amazing dress combined complexity and simplicity, sensuality and decorum, refined wit and strong impact.

  • In "We Do Understand," William Saletan quotes the following sentence from Deborah Tannen's The Argument Culture : "Disputation was rejected in ancient China as incompatible with the decorum and harmony cultivated by the true sage."

  • Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori has worked well enough to send countless young men to their deaths through the ages.

  • Sadly, you won’t be able to get in, but you can loiter (with appropriate decorum) in the area’s two landmark hotels, the Fairmont and the Mark Hopkins, both at the top of California Street.

  • Rather, there's a soft-focus decorum, and a powerful nostalgia for a simpler, "good" war.


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