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Example sentences for: respectable

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As Plotz so ably demonstrates, that great line from the film Chinatown is absolutely on the mark: "Politicians, whores, and buildings--if they get old enough, they get respectable."
The next campaign, once TANF and food stamps have been redefined as respectable "work supports," will be to make those benefits more generous.
The perpetrator of all these deceptions may not have been the "successor to Darwin," as many contemporaries thought, but he was arguably the paradigmatic social scientist of his generation, a man who more than any other made the study of human sexuality a respectable and legitimate field of inquiry.
Having emigrated to the USA, he had discovered that the family monicker, however respectable in Appenzell, would never do in Pittsburgh.
So a 1990 Bordeaux or Burgundy is likely to be first-rate if made by a respectable, even if unknown, winemaker.