How to Use deportment in a Sentence

deportment

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  • The new students were instructed in proper dress and deportment.
  • His stiff deportment matched his strict demeanor.
  • Vogue was a culture of deportment, a culture of manners.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 19 May 2020
  • More on the deportment of the Americans and British in a bit, but for now how could American and British leaders have been so easily duped?
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Gastronomy is about the totality of the experience, from the food and wine to the decor and the service — all the way to the dress and deportment of fellow diners.
    — Alan Behr, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Something in their door-to-door deportment, their earnestness and brio, seemed a soft rebuke to my own disenchantment.
    — Andrew Kay, Longreads, 17 July 2021
  • Those were apparently old and quaint rules of deportment.
    — John Zogby, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • And then there was Monty Not that the internationals hold a patent on pleasant deportment.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • At a time of bombast and insults, his deportment has been invariably civil and courtly.
    — The Editors, National Review, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Flame Show Bar, Gordy had his performers tutored in deportment.
    — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The vets were disciplined, rarely missed class, and were exemplary in their academic deportment.
    — Charles L. Geshekter, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Inman’s was the first driving licence in Atlanta—1930s records warbling away, and the cook’s handwritten memos to self (correct deportment at the dinner table as well as menus) scattered around her kitchen.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2018
  • And for business leaders, tasked with leading people through tough times, Zalenskyy's deportment offers lessons that are transferable even when the stakes aren't as high.
    — Aman Kidwai, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2022
  • But where Navalny’s public presentation is cocky, droll, and irreverent, Sobol has the deportment of a straight-A student, a tireless nerd.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • The Taliban show no sign of easing a crackdown not only on such basic rights as education and jobs for women, but on every facet of public life, from deportment to travel.
    — David Zucchino, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
  • Zakiullah Storay, head of the health deportment in the province, said the facility was important, with 20 beds for people living in the rural area.
    — Fox News, 14 June 2018
  • And then ICE, further detainment, and possible deportment blotted the moment out.
    — Mario Nicolais, The Denver Post, 18 May 2017
  • In tweets, speeches and deportment, the president has made his personality a central issue in this campaign.
    — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 20 Aug. 2020
  • A dazzling talent with thoroughly un-diva-like deportment, Whelan may at times seem to be repeating herself.
    — Sheri Linden, latimes.com, 8 June 2017
  • And there is nothing in Trump’s history or deportment that would discomfit those in more patriarchal settings.
    — Jonathan Tilove, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2020
  • That offhand remark prompted a deeper review of Esquith’s deportment with students and his management of a nonprofit and student field trips.
    — Howard Blume, latimes.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Bob also was a dedicated history teacher, and with an eagle eye for deportment violations within the student body — even if they were spotted on the short walk home.
    — Star Tribune, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Sure, that’s what America is craving, lessons in morality and social deportment from some of the most privileged, narcissistic people in the entire country.
    — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The manual outlines proper dress, grooming, behavior and deportment for a waitress, and the expectation that all of her customers will be men, who will expect quiet obedience.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Blind maniacal rage followed by cool, cleanly deportment?
    — Norman Mailer, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
  • To play Midge, Brosnahan consulted a stack of vintage Good Housekeeping magazines, clipping articles about wifely deportment.
    — Alexis Soloski, idahostatesman, 7 Jan. 2018
  • Membership is determined by a student’s scholastic achievement, attendance, deportment, participation in career-technical student organizations and teacher recommendations.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 18 Apr. 2022

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