Example sentences for: self-respecting

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

  • By now, we hope our leaders have truly learned their lessons well: that as a self-respecting nation and member of the international community, we must respect universal humanitarian values and live up to our responsibilities."

  • Again, you can hire a taxi or pick up a bicycle rental (give it a test ride first, as many are so primitive that they would be scoffed at by any self-respecting commuter from Hanoi or Beijing).

  • Its battlements and turrets are all a self-respecting financier like Henry Pellatt could have wished for.

  • No self-respecting charro would be caught without his cinturón piteado, a tooled leather belt, decorated with piteado, a type of fine work where thin threads are sewn into the leather forming beautiful flower or geometric patterns that may even include the owner’s name.

  • Now, the sight, in 1997, of self-respecting American trade unionists singing a socialist anthem--in however jokey a spirit--would doubtless set off alarm bells.


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