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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 late 19 th century, beauty, connoting as it did individual service and the laying on of hands, was considered a trade too vulgar for respectable people.
(I can't see Cook's putting "freedom" in quotes as anything but a perfectly respectable rhetorical device, though.
One reason for this could be that they have traditionally pursued such conservative, respectable vocations as banking, medicine, law, and academia.
The celebrity chef launched the gourmet-food craze, made American cooking respectable, empowered housewives, and legitimized public television.
The wicked numbers game is a racket no more, but a respectable, highly promoted Lotto, the hottest gambling enterprise ever conceived.