How to Use "respectability" with Example Sentences

1. Long derided as a city of sleaze , the city is reaching for respectability .
2. Take , for example , mercedes-benz , a brand that in much of the world suggests moneyed respectability .
3. But respectability will not create enough jobs , let alone secure indonesia 's aim of becoming " an advanced and self-reliant nation by 2025 " .
4. Perhaps the reunion was an opportunity to recapture the lost innocence of youth , or perhaps margaret was seeking a veneer of respectability after a notorious past .
5. Their lives were not idle , but the path to respectability was through military service or farming , rather than trade .