15 example sentences using decent.
Decent used in a sentence
Decent in a sentence as an adjective
Greg is a decent programmer, but he wants a new job badly.
After those new lawyers were hired, they would be put to work doing tasks that any decent temp worker could do.
It's for developers without a designer to make their site look half-decent in half an hour.
You need a supportive and decent partner who will be your rock of stability, not someone who will drain you.
Again beautiful, I used to **** for decent info graphics coming in.
If someone can produce 20 videos that seem decent and want to do more as part of the Khan Academy, we'll point our audience at them.
A decent amount of history looks like people trying to force their culture, their nationality, and their genes forward through history.
You can have infallible technology, or you can have a decent customer service experience.
Decent in a sentence as an adverb
Bleary, burned-out, sleep-deprived, stimulant-addled engineers do not produce decent code no matter how many hours you make them stay at their desks.
I can hack together a decent, reasonably strong wooden workbench for my shop, but it doesn't possess the same craftsmanship as a dedicated wood worker.
In those countries, people do find TED really inspirational and often the local TEDx events are one of the very few decent conferences you can attend.
Also, during a decent period of time, mercantilism became a big factor in economic thinking.
Every decent improvement is blocked by some greedy Boomer sonovabitch whose business or view would be mildly inconvenienced by the impact of construction.
Never hit a plateau in pay, but nonetheless, I've found the best way to ratchet up is to change jobs which has been sad, but true - I've left some pretty decent jobs because somebody else was willing to pay more.
They are also actively trying to keep their employees from unionizing.\nIf you consider the current wages "decent" is up to your point of view, but the union and I'd guess most of the affected workers disagree.> The fact that most of the workers are not on strike proves that they're satisfied with their jobsThis proves nothing, in particular not job satisfaction, and is actually also not how things work in Germany and therefore just wrong.\nFirst a union will usually selectively shut down just a few facilities instead of all at once.
Decent definitions
socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous; "from a decent family"; "a nice girl"
See also: nice
according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior"
conforming to conventions of sexual behavior; "speech in this circle, if not always decent, never became lewd"- George Santayana
sufficient for the purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food enough"
decently clothed; "are you decent?"
observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress; "a modest neckline in her dress"; "though one of her shoulder straps had slipped down, she was perfectly decent by current standards"