respectable
Example Sentences
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"This is a job that is more difficult than it looks. Claudia, despite her self-mockery and nerves, put in a respectable first shift," she wrote.
From BBC
But after a respectable start, the wheels fell off and Frank was replaced by Tudor last month.
One of the largest regulated utilities in the country has delivered a very respectable 26% return over the past year and pays a dividend yield of close to 3%.
From Barron's
“The Complex” works instead by painstaking accretion—or rather, by erosion, recording in granular detail all the lies and violations that eat away at the Chopras’ respectable facade.
In spite of that, the economy grew a respectable 2.2% last year.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
