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How to use the word decently in a Sentence?

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I really felt like I played decently coming in, but just playing a U.S. Open, you’re sometimes a bounce away or a lip-out away from a tough hole or a tough situation, that's just part of this event. – Patrick Rodgers	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We are waiting for the person who will come and intervene. They will go back in body bags because nobody will come to Nigeria and tell us how to run our country, we have got that independence and we are trying to run our country as decently as possible. – Nasir El-Rufai	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We have got that independence and we are trying to run our country as decently as possible. – Nasir El-Rufai	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
As a college, if we think providing decently paid on campus work promotes retention, then it isn't just a labor issue, it could cost the university a little more, perhaps, than employing other folks. But it could save money if it keeps people in college. – Sara Goldrick-Rab	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The police are handling themselves decently toward everyone. – Svetlana Gannushkina	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
All the money I had in the bank, I put into my house to be able to live decently, but now I live worse than a dog, we can't figure out what we're being punished for, because this is too much humiliation. – Angela Holguin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice. – Aleister Crowley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind. – Don Marquis	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. – Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present – D. H. Lawrence	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I really felt like I played decently coming in, but just playing a U.S. Open, you’re sometimes a bounce away or a lip-out away from a tough hole or a tough situation, that's just part of this event.

– Patrick Rodgers

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are waiting for the person who will come and intervene. They will go back in body bags because nobody will come to Nigeria and tell us how to run our country, we have got that independence and we are trying to run our country as decently as possible.

– Nasir El-Rufai

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We have got that independence and we are trying to run our country as decently as possible.

– Nasir El-Rufai

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

As a college, if we think providing decently paid on campus work promotes retention, then it isn't just a labor issue, it could cost the university a little more, perhaps, than employing other folks. But it could save money if it keeps people in college.

– Sara Goldrick-Rab

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The police are handling themselves decently toward everyone.

– Svetlana Gannushkina

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

All the money I had in the bank, I put into my house to be able to live decently, but now I live worse than a dog, we can't figure out what we're being punished for, because this is too much humiliation.

– Angela Holguin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.

– Aleister Crowley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.

– Don Marquis

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

– Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present

– D. H. Lawrence

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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