Sentence for decent | Use decent in a sentence

Decent example sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use decent in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for decent.

  • A decent poverty! (10)
  • So would anybody decent. (8)
  • Stick to decent people. (10)
  • Were they decent to you? (8)
  • Not right, not decent to take him back! (8)
  • A decent chap would have offered me half. (8)
  • The decent is the right way in such cases. (10)
  • The decent is the right way in such cases. (22)
  • A decent withdrawal, and very well cloaked. (10)
  • I must have something decent to do sometimes. (8)
  • After a decent interval Miss Isabel glided out. (10)
  • It was borne in the latter with decent philosophy. (4)
  • Nothing would be adequate, nothing would be decent. (8)
  • There is no decent way out of a thing of this sort. (8)
  • How, in decent pride, keep him from her, fetter him? (8)
  • It looks just tolerably decent with her in the house. (10)
  • We used to have decent ways of going about things here. (8)
  • Heriot and I joined the decent procession to the grave. (10)
  • It was a prospect to turn the head even of a decent man. (8)
  • You and I, Gracie, will fight for a decent life for everybody. (8)
  • A decent propriety bound him not to think of the matter at all. (10)
  • Of course, I shall make a decent pretence of talking in my sleep. (9)
  • Its next acquaintance was an old stone-breaker, a very decent sort. (8)
  • I venture my word that a, decent lad, with science, would beat him. (10)
  • But the decent press which lies between does not thus stultify itself. (16)
  • Mr. Orson, after a decent hesitation, consented to perform the ceremony. (9)
  • She fancies she brings him up to the altar, in the end, by decent behaviour. (10)
  • Interests so highly personal as theirs demand from them a decent insincerity. (10)
  • I was half in doubt whether I disliked or admired her want of decent hypocrisy. (10)
  • It was not fair to her to put himself in such a false position; in fact, not decent. (8)
  • You live in a place for which they charge you five times as much as is fair and decent. (12)
  • And it was awfully decent of him to have come, and to stand there while he drank the tea. (8)
  • Now just come over to me, like a decent creature, and give me the dhrop of comfort ye have. (6)
  • He is indeed fallen from grace who makes a merit of doing what is decent and honest and fair. (16)
  • No man of normal mind and decent industry should need more than eighteen months to master it. (12)
  • You touch her skirts when you share her hatred of the sham decent, her derision of sentimentalism. (10)
  • In the first place he did not like to prolong the family idyl beyond decent and appropriate limits. (12)
  • If he does, however, they will leave me in peace, which may be a decent equivalent for the reversion. (4)
  • That made six people, Burnamy counted up, and he feigned a decent regret that there was not room for Mrs. (9)
  • Does a hard-working, greedy builder gain more on a monstrosity than on a decent cottage of equal plainness? (2)
  • Night, however, will come; and they, adoreing the decent face, are moved on, made to expose what the Rajah sees. (10)
  • There is the parsonage: a tidy-looking house, and I understand the clergyman and his wife are very decent people. (4)
  • Society having rendered its verdict, there remained between Gilson and eternity only the decent formality of a trial. (1)
  • When Night has fallen upon London, the Rajah remarks: Monogamic Societies present A decent visage and a hideous rear. (10)
  • The habit of not screaming, however, prevailed, and she made a tolerably successful effort to treat him with decent composure. (9)
  • I thought that I treated you with all the tenderness and affection that a decent regard for the feelings of others would allow. (9)
  • Noel looked at him; a tall man, regular and orderly, with one of those perfectly decent faces so often seen in the London police. (8)
  • Val admitted that it was frightfully decent to do what you liked; the lectures were nothing; and there were some very good chaps. (8)
  • I promise you, the stick was not idle; I think every decent step that Modestine took must have cost me at least two emphatic blows. (2)
  • He made decent compromises between his own taste and that of his clients, and took pride in the honest construction of his buildings. (13)
  • And she might have the place for residence, but a decent courtesy required that she should remain at the portico until he was out of sight. (10)
  • One man must have been upwards of sixty before I first observed him, and he made then a decent, personable figure in broadcloth of the best. (2)
  • Clotilde maintained a decent measure in the liberty she claimed, and it was exercised in wildness of dialogue rather than in capricious behaviour. (10)
  • However little of wrong in the circumstances, they imposed a silence on her decent mind, and no conceivable shape of writing would transmit condolences. (10)

Also see sentences for: decorous, modest, respectable, suitable.

Definition of decent:

  • decent, d’sent, adj. becoming: seemly: proper: modest: moderate: tolerable. | n. d’cency, becomingness: modesty. | adv. d’cently. (0)

Glad you visited this page with a sentence for decent. Now that you’ve seen how to use decent in a sentence hope you might explore the rest of this educational reference site Sentencefor.com to see many other example sentences which provide word usage information.

Leave a Reply