REPUTABLE in a Sentence

Learn REPUTABLE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
217 example sentences for REPUTABLE, such as:
1. He's got such a bad reputation.
2. Always buy from a reputable dealer.
3. His reputation was blemished by that article.
4. He built up a reputation as a tough businessman.
5. She has a very good reputation among her fellows.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of REPUTABLE
reputable
 a.  having a good reputation
Classic Sentence: (147 in 10 pages)
1  So flagrant became the political scandals that reputable men began to leave politics alone, and politics consequently became disreputable.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  The decent and reputable citizens of the North who neglected their own civic duties grew hilarious over the exaggerated importance with which the Negro regarded the franchise.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
4  Oh, Scarlett, he has the most terrible reputation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  Lucky for Ashley that he had an unassailable reputation for courage, or else there'd be trouble.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  If you didn't do these things, the other matrons talked about you and then your reputation was ruined and your family disgraced.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  If you were too nice to young husbands, their wives said you were fast and you got a bad reputation and never caught any beaux of your own.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  There, I'll be saying no more tonight, for I'm going to see this fine Captain Butler who makes so light of me daughter's reputation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  I am not a soldier and I have no desire to seek the bubble reputation even in the cannon's mouth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
10  Then, having accepted his gifts, she could not summon courage enough to tell him his reputation made it improper for him to call on three lone women who had no male protector.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  With such a reputation, it was strange that he had never so much as kissed the hand of an unmarried girl since he first appeared in Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  He's got such a bad reputation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
13  He had risen to prominence in the campaigns in Tennessee and the West, and his reputation as a determined and ruthless fighter was growing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
14  Will couldn't have noticed Mammy's face when Rhett Butler's name was mentioned and, besides, Will didn't know about Rhett's money or his foul reputation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
15  All she wanted was the reputation for possessing these qualities.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1  Always buy from a reputable dealer.
2  My information comes from a very reputable source.
3  In fact, you can even find claims made by celebrated scholars, and published in reputable sources.
4  The EU decision does not spell out what types of information must be removed and does not provide exemptions for data that is true or from a reputable source.
5  A good reputation sits still; a bad one runs about.
6  Although he is known to only a few, his reputation among them is very great.
7  She has a very good reputation among her fellows.
8  His reputation lends a certain validity to the approach that it might not deserve.
9  His reputation was blemished by that article.
10  If you would build for your happiness a sure foundation, let the stone for the corner be a good reputation.
11  He built up a reputation as a tough businessman.
12  He is a man with a reputation for being tough and unafraid of unpopular decisions.
13  His approach had won him a reputation as a tough manager.
14  He had shot three people dead earning himself a reputation as a tough guy.
15  To care for wisdom and truth and the improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honour and reputation.