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How to use honorable in a sentence

21 example sentences · adjective, noun

Honorable means behaving in a manner that shows honor; decent, having integrity. Example: “That culture considered it no disgrace to be defeated in honorable combat.”

Examples of honorable by meaning

adjectiveComplying with cultural rules regarding honor; not provoking shame or disgrace.

  • That culture considered it no disgrace to be defeated in honorable combat.
  • People lived in honorable marriage.1943, Korean Research Bulletin, volumes 1-2, page 20

More sentences with honorable

  • Asking for such an honorable favor, for such a noble need, is very dignifying.2021, Daniel Darling, Ministers of Reconciliation. From the entry dignifying
  • This week hundreds of NFL agents gathered to hear an honorable man talk about a noble pipedream.Freeman, Mike (25 February 2012), “Runners' world: Union boss Smith's noble idea likely stuck at the start”, in (Please provide the book…. From the entry runner
  • People strive to achieve perfection — ostensibly an honorable goal — but complete perfection is dangerous.2007, Brian Herbert, Kevin J Anderson, Sandworms of Dune. From the entry ostensibly
  • The quantity of biasness (racism) in here would shock the honorable Ms.1989 December 10, Glenda Edwards, “They Can't Keep Me Away From My Stink”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 5. From the entry biasness
  • This happens to be one of his given names, and it is a very honorable one.1959, Roentgens, Rads and Riddles: A Symposium on Supervoltage Radiation Therapy., U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, page 71. From the entry eric
  • "It is quite five years since my eyes last hung upon your honorable face."1906, Mary McNeil Fenollosa, The Dragon Painter. From the entry hang upon
  • He had made a reputation for honorable dealing as an agent of the tea trade.1901, Hezekiah Butterworth, “1.Strange Things to Be Seen in China – Jataka Tales – the Boxers – American Tea-farms”, in Traveller Tales of…. From the entry hong
  • I think it would be well if we seriously considered some kind of honorable mention for him at the Conference.2018, Margaret Edds, We Face the Dawn. From the entry kudos
  • My whole family has binge-watched all three seasons at least once each, and Claerwen finds it an honorable development in Sorkinism.2016, Clive James, Play All: A Bingewatcher's Notebook, page 77. From the entry Sorkinism
  • Instead of being up and about, interfering with the rights of the people, many policemen choose the honorable way out—they coop.2012, Walter Block, Defending the Undefendable: The Pimp, Prostitute, Scab, Slumlord, Libeler, Moneylender, and Other Scapegoats in the…. From the entry coop
  • Dear laptopers, during the honorable quest of converting my wife's laptop from win to fbsd, I came across the following problem.2008 July 5, Jan Stary, “xorg.conf for Compaq Armada 110”, in lucky.freebsd.mobile (Usenet), archived from the original on 19 Aug 2026. From the entry laptoper
  • For the Herzlians, anti-Semitism constituted the central problem to be confronted, and a Jewish state was the one honorable solution.2000, David C. Hammack -, Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States: A Reader, →ISBN, page 218. From the entry Herzlian
  • To officers and dispatchers it also connotes "good police work" and "crime work" that is honorable and important.1992, Peter K. Manning, Organizational Communication, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry undercode
  • Your orator sheweth that the parties live out of this State and your orator is remindless save in this honorable Court.1981, Willie Pauline Young, James E. Wooley, A Collection of Upper South Carolina Genealogical and Family Records. From the entry remindless
  • "That honorable banner could come to mean many evil things."1965 October 1, Frank Herbert, “Book I: Dune”, in Dune, Philadelphia, Pa.: Chilton Book Company; [Toronto], Ont.: Thomas Nelson & Sons…. From the entry banner
  • The brains in Spain stay mainly on the plain of honorable cheating in the universities. . . .1956 May 28, “Spanish Cutlets”, in Time. From the entry crib note
  • Senator OAKES.—I am not prepared to eat the honorable senator.1913, Commonwealth of Australia, Parliamentary Debates: Session 1913 (First Session of the Fifth Parliament), volume LXXI, page 2863. From the entry cough lolly
  • It is not only possible, but probable , that we are going to have more of the political cheatery of which the honorable member spoke.1909, Australian Parliament, Parliamentary Debates: Senate and House of Representatives, page 739. From the entry cheatery
  • It is despicable what the sharp-knifed general and his army have done to the honorable Commander Francisco Caso y Luengo, one of our most revered Spanish military figures.2002, Annie Champa, Three Notches of Destiny, [Bloomington, Ind.]: 1stBooks, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry knifed

Meaning of honorable

  1. adjective Behaving in a manner that shows honor; decent, having integrity.
  2. adjective Worthy of respect; respectable.
  3. adjective Complying with cultural rules regarding honor; not provoking shame or disgrace.

Full definition of honorable

Questions about honorable in a sentence

How do you use honorable in a sentence?
Honorable is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “That culture considered it no disgrace to be defeated in honorable combat.”
What is a short sentence with honorable?
“People lived in honorable marriage.”
What does honorable mean?
Honorable means behaving in a manner that shows honor; decent, having integrity.

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