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Decent in sentence

2143 examples of Decent in a sentence

LT: I look for someone who has a sense of fun, who's audacious, who's forthcoming, who has politics, who has even a small scrap of passion for the planet, someone who's decent, has a sense of justice and who thinks I'm worthwhile.
This works much better than random guessing because by starting with the box with the picture of their instrument, each musician restricts their search to the loop that contains their instrument, and there are decent odds, about 35%, that all of the loops will be of length five or less.
That's a decent amount.
In 2005, a lot of people in the automobile industry were saying, we would not have a decent electric car for 50 years.
I learned to stay unaware of periods in order to stay decent.
Her mission was to provide decent healthcare for everyone.
In fact, there's a decent chance that we'll see a wave of very weird fruit flies in the near future.
We are not creating enough decent manufacturing jobs for our youth, and trade among ourselves is low.
Indonesia is now a pretty decent democracy.
People are reeling from all sorts of unnatural disasters, displacing them from their ancestral homes and leaving them without a chance at making a decent living.
And I think if you're looking for the meaning of something, the dictionary is a decent place to start.
Loma Linda University has built a gateway college in nearby San Bernardino so that in addition to delivering medical care, they can provide job skills and job training to a predominantly minority, low-income community members so that they will have the skills they need to get a decent job.
Few of the men that I met had had a decent education.
Instead, public provisions of a baby trust could go a long way towards eliminating the transmission of economic advantage or disadvantage across generations and establishing a more moral and decent economy that facilitates assets, economic security and social mobility for all its citizens.
Almost three-quarters say their income doesn't cover basic services like food, water, electricity, and decent housing.
America's working class has been paying union dues for decades, and with it, our unions have been building dignified, decent, and democratic workplaces for us.
I live in a country the size of Europe, and it only has 50 decent bookshops.
I was prominent for a 24-year-old: intelligent, I spoke well, dressed decent; I was an upstanding citizen.
We speak well, we dress decent, we're intelligent, people like us, or act like they do.
Education is the strongest weapon we have to fight for our freedom, decent life and future.
Today, after 20 years of watching TV geared to make me emotional, even a decent insurance commercial can bring tears to my eyes.
Now, what happens if your hypothesis does a decent job but not a perfect job?
As a matter of fact, I would argue that there's a lot of very civic-minded, decent leadership.
I liked to go up and sit in the stands and watch the players play, and see whether I'd done a decent job during the week.
Now this is several years ago, adjusted for inflation, it's a decent sum of money for a few minutes of work.
We have to deal with the hardware of development, the ports, the roads, the airports, all the infrastructural things we need to do, and the software of development, the human capital, the need for the ordinary person in India to be able to have a couple of square meals a day, to be able to send his or her children to a decent school, and to aspire to work a job that will give them opportunities in their lives that can transform themselves.
Dumped without political participation, decent education, any kind of real opportunity in terms of economic lives, and then sentenced to generations of violence and prejudice and discrimination.
They were thoughtful people, educated people, decent people.
And no matter how long I've spent on the ocean, I haven't yet managed to muster a decent beard, and I hope that it remains that way.
The sound system was kind of decent.
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