How to Use decorum in a Sentence

decorum

noun

• He has no sense of decorum.
• A bit of decorum isn’t too much to ask.
  — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 4 Dec. 2025
• Don’t let things like rules and decorum get in the way of what’s in it for him.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
• Yet there are those of us who might suggest that decorum isn’t all bad.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• And at the same time, you’re constrained by rules of decorum and things like that.
  — Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2026
• There's a certain decorum around golf.
  — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026
• Some may say that there is wisdom, and decorum, in leaving it at that.
  — Giles Harvey, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• Space missions cling to timelines for more than just decorum.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 29 May 2018
• There is a time for decorum and there is a time to speak truth in a way that gets attention.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2025
• The game of golf is to be played at a high level of integrity and decorum at all times.
  — Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2025
• The decorum debate in sports has been raging and evolving for decades.
  — Peter Schmuck, baltimoresun.com, 13 June 2019
• Fair enough to want to solve a murder or whatever, but have some decorum, babe!
  — Caroline Framke, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2024
• Like class, decorum and modesty go out the window with adulthood.
  — Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 18 Nov. 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
• The sergeant-at-arms may use the mace to regain decorum on the House floor if needed.
  — Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2019
• Mariano stands there, unable to break decorum and help him.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
• 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
• In a rare nod to sartorial decorum, his shirt was tucked into a pair of khakis.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2017
• Chairs have threatened to remove people who break decorum.
  — Cate Charron, IndyStar, 8 Dec. 2025
• The heat seems to have gotten to Miss Manners’ sense of decorum.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Wreaths Across America had a few ground rules in place, to keep decorum.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2022
• All the while, the five board members forge on, tangled in their own web of misguided decorum.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
• There are several decorum rules about speaking on the House floor.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 12 June 2019
• The rules of nude cruising Here are the rules of decorum for the 2024 cruise.
  — Miami Herald Archive, Miami Herald, 3 May 2024
• But also that line speaks to the way Saeki violates a lot of laws of decorum.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
• The uptight decorum and prudish manners of the era are reimagined through a modern lens.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021
• And the typical rules of decorum are loosened as a result — at least by golf standards.
  — Bob Harkins, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
• The party of civility and decorum will have to show some backbone here.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 27 June 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