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Example sentences for: respectability

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

The 66-year-old is not showing signs of age, but he is showing signs of respectability.
To lump these pillars of respectability in my life and in my community with the few bad seeds that slip through the cracks of the organization is a grave disservice to the thousands of men and women who willingly give their evenings, weekends, and dollars to an organization whose core goal is to mold impressionable boys into upstanding, moral men.
But it reached a new level of respectability last December, when The New Yorker 's art critic, Adam Gopnik, reviewed the second volume of Richardson's life of Picasso.
Not wanting to be seen as a censor is the defense of nearly everyone who has helped MacDonald make his upward climb toward respectability.
A social stigma is still attached to most self-help programs: Stephen "Seven Habits" Covey is the only guru who has won mainstream respectability.