Respectable in example sentence

But I will not forgo sharing my opinion of this monthly, to which, during the 1974-1975 Portuguese revolution, I submitted one of my first dispatches, but which today retains nothing of Le Monde except shareholders, nothing diplomatic except the word, and nothing respectable except the memory of its distant founders.

More example sentences with word respectable

"'Agnostic, '" retorted Aveling, "was simply 'atheist' writ respectable, and 'atheist' was simply 'agnostic' writ aggressive."

And then we have Mark Zuckerberg, who defies convention of respectable attire for businesspeople.

They are now, actually, respectable professors at Michigan State University, but I can assure you, back in the day, we were not a respectable team.

After this, respectable American educators all backed away, and they stayed away for decades.

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