How to Use decorum in a Sentence

decorum

noun
  • He has no sense of decorum.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Fair enough to want to solve a murder or whatever, but have some decorum, babe!
    — Caroline Framke, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Stella's eating of the body of Jesus had nothing to do with decorum.
    — Gwen Faulkenberry, arkansasonline.com, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Like class, decorum and modesty go out the window with adulthood.
    — Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 18 Nov. 2024
  • Right, forget all those niceties about decorum and comity and Robert’s Rules of Order.
    — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2021
  • 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
  • The lack of empathy, the lack of decorum — using profanity at a press conference — and to politicize a tragedy is really unconscionable.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The policy also gives sheriff’s deputies the power to issue criminal trespass warnings to those who violate rules of decorum, which can come with a 180-day ban from the county administrative building.
    — Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Jan. 2025

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