How to Use decorum in a Sentence

decorum

noun

• He has no sense of decorum.
• 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
• There are several decorum rules about speaking on the House floor.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 12 June 2019
• In a rare nod to sartorial decorum, his shirt was tucked into a pair of khakis.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2017
• The uptight decorum and prudish manners of the era are reimagined through a modern lens.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021
• Since at least 1986, the city has imposed decorum codes and fines on unruly visitors.
  — Andrew Jeong, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2023
• The decorum of the stand-up class is gone; students now perform with ferocious abandon.
  — Joel Warner, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2012
• The party of civility and decorum will have to show some backbone here.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 27 June 2018
• The last chapter has Barr throwing Trump under the bus, albeit gently and with the utmost decorum.
  — New York Times, 27 Feb. 2022
• For all the angst that evening, Wilkinson said, everything had taken place with decorum.
  — Author: Avi Selk, Sarah Murray, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2018
• Our lives are filled with contradictions and breaks in decorum.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 26 Apr. 2022
• Others have been fined and forced out of the city for breaching decorum regulations.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 25 Jan. 2022
• The duo were central to a burgeoning alt-cabaret movement, which defied the decorum of the Carlyle and other staid venues.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• In addition to a lack of decorum, Carr was found to have violated a long list of other rules.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 9 May 2024