How to Use decorum in a Sentence

decorum

noun

• He has no sense of decorum.
• For the moment, though, the two sides maintained decorum.
  — James Bandler, ProPublica, 25 Mar. 2020
• The decorum debate in sports has been raging and evolving for decades.
  — Peter Schmuck, baltimoresun.com, 13 June 2019
• Yet there are those of us who might suggest that decorum isn’t all bad.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• She’s not someone conditioned to hold back for the sake of decorum.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2021
• The sergeant-at-arms may use the mace to regain decorum on the House floor if needed.
  — Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2019
• Space missions cling to timelines for more than just decorum.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 29 May 2018
• Activists have yelled and screamed and disrupted the decorum of the Senate.
  — Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
• The heat seems to have gotten to Miss Manners’ sense of decorum.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• The uptight decorum and prudish manners of the era are reimagined through a modern lens.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021
• 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 party of civility and decorum will have to show some backbone here.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 27 June 2018
• Our lives are filled with contradictions and breaks in decorum.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 26 Apr. 2022
• In a rare nod to sartorial decorum, his shirt was tucked into a pair of khakis.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2017
• Others have been fined and forced out of the city for breaching decorum regulations.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 25 Jan. 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
• 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
• There are several decorum rules about speaking on the House floor.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 12 June 2019
• 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
• Talk shop with your peers but only with corporate decorum.
  — Katie Jansen, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
• Wreaths Across America had a few ground rules in place, to keep decorum.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2022
• Biden has restored decency and decorum to the White House.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
• The decorum of the stand-up class is gone; students now perform with ferocious abandon.
  — Joel Warner, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2012
• Not all of them—just the ones that lack decorum and a sense of consideration for their fellow riders.
  — Bill Savage, Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017
• Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori—or pro ludo, for that matter.
  — Diane Roberts, The New Republic, 6 Nov. 2019
• Things shook out such that a number of the first shows to adopt this social-distancing decorum were daytime broadcasts.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2020
• Still, there were certain points of order and decorum on which Adm. Toole would not budge.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• Unlike adults, babies pass gas with a little less decorum or restraint.
  — Anita K. Henry, Parents, 29 June 2023
• The decibel level was low, decorum high and crowds generally sparse.
  — Roger Kimball, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2018
• Sitting in a big-time press box, you are expected to adhere to certain levels of decorum.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024