Example sentences for: respectability

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

  • It isn't lost on these dinosaurs that with respectability came vast declines in newspaper readership.

  • , teaching), but also from any legal rights that confer respectability.

  • 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.

  • Jesse Helms, too, is now flirting with respectability.

  • In a long WP profile of Geraldo Rivera , prompted by Rivera's new lush contract with NBC News, which he hopes to use to ride back into teevee news respectability, he's quoted saying, "I would debate with anyone, on any of the meaningful issues of our day--with Peter Jennings, Charlie Rose, Bill Moyers, all these people that you guys are always kissing their [expletive].


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