Example sentences for: respectability

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

  • A social stigma is still attached to most self-help programs: Stephen "Seven Habits" Covey is the only guru who has won mainstream respectability.

  • Also high in the female popularity stakes in 1940s' England were Shirley and Alison : Shirley Temple reigned supreme and Charlotte Bronte's heroine gave intellectual respectability.

  • Nine years later, though, it was Newsweek 's turn to pronounce a return to respectability, splashing Nixon's photo on the cover with a six-page article, a three-page interview, and a dozen photographs inside.

  • A girl's respectability was forever sundered from the concealment of her bodily facts--quite the reverse, it became attached to their display.

  • Though he has yet to visit Washington since his release from prison, he aspires to return to respectability in the city's eyes.


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