Example sentences for: respectability

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

  • The misfortune of Coz's career may be that he is gunning for journalistic respectability at a time when journalistic respectability doesn't pay.

  • If anyone could describe the sickening plunge from respectability to degradation (and if anyone could learn something from the experience), surely it would be Wachtler, who fell as far and fast as anyone can.

  • To his credit, though, even Mick Jagger feels the trend toward rock respectability is going too far.

  • The existence of surf beaches within the environs of Sydney--at Bondi, Bronte, Coogee, and Tamarama in the south and Manly to the north--meant that the battle of the beaches was fought in Sydney, and, when respectability was obtained, that it was in the terms of an activity very much associated with Sydney, surf-life-saving.

  • Pecker might also have noted that the editorial integrity of the Weekly World News remains largely unmolested (though Chatterbox did point out, earlier, a bizarre feint in the direction of respectability in the Weekly World News' coverage of the imminent apocalypse).


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