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:

  • It is not legally allowed to meet in private and cannot even write its own final report--prerequisites for any self-respecting commission.

  • No self-respecting reader of books can consider his education complete without having read Izaak Walton.

  • Now let me tell you where you're wrong (oh, how I love writing those words): I didn't say that mobsters aren't taking their cues from The Sopranos . What I said was that no self-respecting mobster would want to be a member of Tony Soprano's sad-sack crew.

  • But until this year, it was almost impossible to get any self-respecting adult to read them.

  • “Every self-respecting mechanic,” said John Dewey, “Will call the parts of an automobile by their right names because that is the way to distinguish them.”


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