How to Use decorum in a Sentence

decorum

noun

• He has no sense of decorum.
• But also that line speaks to the way Saeki violates a lot of laws of decorum.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
• Stop defending decorum and do something about Donald Trump.
  — William Cummings, USA TODAY, 27 June 2018
• Doing something as cutesy as that for any politician naturally crosses all (fe)lines of decorum.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 17 June 2019
• Judges traditionally use contempt of court to enforce court orders and decorum.
  — Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 21 July 2024
• There are still plenty of folks who once lived in a time of decorum when women wore hats and gloves when out and people communicated by writing letters.
  — Jennifer Winward, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2018
• But disagreement is generally done with a certain decorum.
  — Jennifer Peltz, The Seattle Times, 26 Sep. 2018
• Eventually, someone will come along and restore a measure of decorum to politics, sparing voters the inside peek at their trips to the dentist or the fridge.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2019
• Wasser upset the decorum with an impassioned plea to consider elephants as fellow beings, not commodities.
  — Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, 21 May 2019
• Over the years, Feinstein has developed a reputation for her preference of decorum and discretion.
  — Kathleen Ronayne, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2018
• While there is no national law regarding punishment if proper decorum is not observed during the playing of the Anthem, there are established rules of conduct.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 5 Nov. 2018
• The rules of nude cruising Here are the rules of decorum for the 2024 cruise.
  — Miami Herald Archive, Miami Herald, 3 May 2024
• At the start of the hearing, the judge warned the audience to keep decorum in the courtroom.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2024
• The sergeant-at-arms may use the mace to regain decorum on the House floor if needed.
  — Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2019
• The heat seems to have gotten to Miss Manners’ sense of decorum.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• For the moment, though, the two sides maintained decorum.
  — James Bandler, ProPublica, 25 Mar. 2020
• Yet there are those of us who might suggest that decorum isn’t all bad.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• In the main room, scalloped with marble basins, there was a semblance of decorum, but in the side rooms, the men were young and frisky.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• Some may say that there is wisdom, and decorum, in leaving it at that.
  — Giles Harvey, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• The decorum debate in sports has been raging and evolving for decades.
  — Peter Schmuck, baltimoresun.com, 13 June 2019
• Activists have yelled and screamed and disrupted the decorum of the Senate.
  — Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
• She’s not someone conditioned to hold back for the sake of decorum.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2021
• Wreaths Across America had a few ground rules in place, to keep decorum.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2022
• In other words, argue for your rights, but don’t overstep the bounds of good taste and decorum.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• Now Christensen, 17, is at the center of a debate about decorum and free speech.
  — Brandon Griggs, CNN, 21 Mar. 2018
• Still, there were certain points of order and decorum on which Adm. Toole would not budge.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• All the while, the five board members forge on, tangled in their own web of misguided decorum.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
• Smith in turn didn’t like their lack of decorum and criticized their air of anger and grievance.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
• Biden has restored decency and decorum to the White House.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
• Space missions cling to timelines for more than just decorum.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 29 May 2018

Last Updated: 20 Oct 2024