Example Sentences

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Her confidante immediately hastens off to write “The Tears of the Comet,” an allegorical tale that decorously recasts certain incidents from his stay.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

The description perhaps underrates her novel, but is a fitting epigraph for this play and its decorously debauched protagonist.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023

At the end of January, they calmly and decorously elected a proposed transition president and prime minister.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2022

A team of scientists recently discovered a parasitic and tarantula-killing species of worm, which have been decorously named "Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi" after Daniels and his spider-killing character.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2022

We courted decorously, not like Dede and Jaimito, two little puppies you constantly have to watch over so they don’t get into trouble— Mama has been telling me the stories.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez