Use decency in a sentence
Sentences starting with decency
- Decency is a mild word to apply to her sacrifice. [9]
Sentences ending with decency
- There are those who can make you respect decency. [11]
- Humanity is as much lacking as decency. [4]
- Couldn't Lord Mallow have any decency? [11]
- For so much discredit had been cast upon his taste on the road to London that he was resolved to remain indoors until he could appear with decency. [9]
- Outragers of decency! [9]
Short sentences using decency
- Of course decency was observed. [4]
More example sentences with the word decency in them
- He was just young enough, and there was still enough natural health in him, to know the healing touch of a perfect decency, a pure truth of spirit. [11]
- Give those of us who stand for order and decency as much trouble as you can. [9]
- The travelers were told stories of the lack of common morality and decency in the region, but they made no note of them. [4]
- You don't seem to have any notion of decency or order, or any idea of the principle on which this government was based. [9]
- I should have thought common gratitude, common decency, would have brought him after--after all we did for him. [8]
- They only come, the best of them, because ye let them alone that way, and they get a little decency and society help. [9]
- A poor widow struggling to maintain her orphans in decency and comfort, is a delicious picture of human goodness.--Put down your hat, Kit. [12]
- Goldsmith and even Smollett, both having studied and practised medicine, could not by any possibility have outraged all the natural feelings of delicacy and decency as Swift and Zola have outraged them. [6]
- If you are sensible and resign from St. John's now I will settle on Alison a sufficient sum to allow you both to live in comfort and decency the rest of your lives. [9]
- I can only say that before to-night, I gave him credit for having the decency not to enter it, not to sit down at my table. [9]
- He would also read placards along the beach explaining the reason why decency in bathing suits is desirable, and he would wonder why such notices should be necessary. [4]
- Twice, with proper modesty and decency, he proposed to end his visit, but the Commodore said, "No--wait; leave it to me; I'll tell you when to go. [5]
- Nor would he make any advances whatsoever to Grafton, or receive those hints which my uncle was forever dropping, until at length he begged to be allowed to come to Dr. Hilliard's funeral, a request my grandfather could not in decency refuse. [9]
- I can't do it; else, in common decency, I would when I write to you. [5]
- What name can I, in common decency, give to this wicked transaction? [7]
- I appealed to her, and she had the decency to leave. [9]
- It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste. [6]
- She was a direct person, as we know, but true descendants of the Puritans believe in the decency of preliminaries, and here was certainly an affair not to be plunged into. [9]
- It prayed Mr. Crewe, in the name of decency and good government, to carry the standard of honest men to victory. [9]
- It is a campaign for decency and good government, and I know that the common people of the State--of whom I have the honour to be one--demand these things. [9]
- After the regular business had been disposed of a brief interval was allowed, for the sake of decency, to ensue. [9]
- His ministrations were attended with decency, but not followed with enthusiasm. [6]
- The bimbashi rejoiced at this, for he was a coward; likewise his captain was a coward, and so was his lieutenant: for they were half Turks, half Gippies, who had seen Paris and had not the decency to die there. [11]
- Kit found it, at last, after some trouble, and pausing at the door to take breath that he might enter with becoming decency, passed into the chapel. [12]
- It's only--ordinary decency, and there's no one else to go to him. [9]
- How shamelessly was all decency trodden under foot! [10]
- She talked freely about the want of decency and morality in the young colored folks of the present day. [4]
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