How to Use decorum in a Sentence

decorum

noun
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  • He has no sense of decorum.
  • However, Trump's assaults on decorum and common decency didn't emerge from thin air.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Heck, Brock Lesnar shows more competitive decorum than Sideshow Sean.
    — Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • So the fact that one of its two founding members is dead and the other is touring as Steely Dan isn't exactly a shocking breach of band decorum.
    — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Still there’s not too much Rococo romance going on here—a sharpness runs through the scent, giving it a hit of British stiff-upper-lip decorum.
    — Max Berlinger, GQ, 31 Oct. 2017
  • As Aronofsky’s camera moves through the party, every breach of decorum by the busy guests (who eventually start doing strange things like painting the walls) feels like an assault.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The decorum was a sign that even during a hotly contested Big Ten basketball game, civility is possible.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Here at last was a leader with all of the discipline, decorum and empathy that many have traditionally associated with the office of the president.
    — Greg Beato, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The academy and the show’s broadcaster, ABC, have a financial interest in high ratings, and a sense of decorum adds a leaden note to the show.
    — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Given Trump's propensity for abrasive tweets and unscripted rants, the first concern for some of his protocol team would be the risk of causing offense in a part of the world attuned to etiquette and decorum.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Russian lawmakers skipped decorum, bluntly accusing the U.S. of sponsoring the drone attack.
    — Vladimir Isachenkov, Houston Chronicle, 10 Jan. 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
  • But also that line speaks to the way Saeki violates a lot of laws of decorum.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Smith in turn didn’t like their lack of decorum and criticized their air of anger and grievance.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
  • At 90 percent humidity, decorum goes out the window; the elements bend you to their will.
    — Laura Van Den Berg, New York Times, 11 June 2024

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