Example sentences for: respectable

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

  • In the Oct. 23 "Today's Papers," Scott Shuger writes of a Washington Post piece referring to the "Bubba vote" and notes that "this is a perfect illustration of the truism that there's still one group in this country that 'respectable' people, even (especially?)

  • Apart from B.C.’s Okanagan Valley, the Niagara peninsula is Canada’s only serious wine-growing area, not comparable with Bordeaux or Burgundy, but still respectable.

  • agreeable, delightful, respectable (often used in vague commendation by those who are not nice...)

  • Lacan's father owned a very successful vinegar distillery; the family were respectable bourgeois Roman Catholics.

  • The more respectable argument, leveled by Will, is that kids are susceptible to atmospheric social cues.


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